List of Louisville and Nashville Railroad precursors

These railroads were bought, leased, or in other ways had their track come under ownership or lease by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

In 1902, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad gained a majority of stock in the L&N, but it continued to operate as a separate company until its merger in 1982 into the Seaboard System Railroad.

The Georgia Railroad and the West Point Route were partly owned by the L&N.

Alabama and Florida Railroad edit

Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida edit

Alabama Mineral Railroad edit

Altamont and Manchester Railroad edit

Athens and Tellico Railway edit

Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway edit

Bardstown and Louisville Railroad edit

Bay Minette and Fort Morgan Railroad edit

Birmingham Mineral Railroad edit

Birmingham and Tuscaloosa Railroad edit

Birmingham, Selma and New Orleans Railway edit

Black Mountain Railroad edit

Central Railroad edit

Central Transfer Railroad and Storage Company edit

Clarksville and Princeton Railroad edit

Clarksville Mineral Railroad edit

Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway[1] edit

  • Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington
    • Lexington and Frankfort Railroad 1869
      • Lexington and Ohio Railroad 1849
    • Louisville and Frankfort Railroad 1869

Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railroad edit

Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railway edit

Louisville and Nashville Terminal Company edit

Mammoth Cave Railroad edit

  • Mammoth Cave Railroad

Mobile and Montgomery Railway edit

Monon Railroad edit

Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway edit

Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway[2]

Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad edit

Pensacola Railroad edit

Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad edit

Pensacola and Louisville Railroad Company edit

Pensacola and Selma Railroad edit

References edit

  1. ^ RAILROADS IN NORTH AMERICA; Some Historical Facts and An Introduction to an Electronic Database of North American Railroads and Their Evolution by M. C. Hallberg (April 24, 2006) [1]
  2. ^ DeBow, James Dunwoody Brownson (1900). "List of Branches in Order of Their Acquisition". Legal history of the Entire System of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. and Possessions. Nashville, Tennessee: Press of Marshall & Bruce Co. p. vii.

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