List of Louisville and Nashville Railroad precursors
Encyclopedia
These railroads were bought, leased, or in other ways had their track come under ownership or lease by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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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
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The Georgia Railroad was partly owned by the L&N.
Monon Railroad
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.Chartered by the state of Kentucky in 1850, the L&N, as it was generally known, grew into one of the great success stories of American business...
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In 1902, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was an American railroad that existed between 1900 and 1967, when it merged with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, its long-time rival, to form the Seaboard 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
Seaboard System Railroad
The Seaboard System Railroad was a former Class I railroad created by merging the railroads of the Family Lines System. Although sharing common ownership, the railroads of the Family Lines System used different names when conducting business...
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The Georgia Railroad was partly owned by the L&N.
Alabama and Florida Railroad
Alabama and Florida Railroad of Florida
- Alabama, Florida and Georgia RailRoad
- Florida, Alabama and Georgia RailRoad
Alabama Mineral Railroad
- Anniston and Atlantic RailroadAnniston and Atlantic RailroadThe Anniston and Atlantic Railroad was a 53-mile narrow gauge railroad built between Anniston, Alabama and Sylacauga, Alabama, via Talladega, Alabama and Murphy, Alabama....
- Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway
- Marietta and North Georgia Railroad
- Knoxville Southern Railroad
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway
- Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington
- Lexington and Frankfort Railroad 1869
- Lexington and Ohio Railroad 1849
- Louisville and Frankfort Railroad 1869
- Lexington and Frankfort Railroad 1869
Mobile and Montgomery Railway
- Alabama and Florida Railroad
Monon RailroadMonon RailroadThe Monon Railroad , also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway from 1897–1956, operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana...
- Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway
- Chicago and Dyer Railway
- Chicago and Indianapolis Terminal Company
- Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad
- Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad
- Bedford and Bloomfield Railroad
- Bedford, Springville, Owensburg and Bloomfield Railroad
- Chicago and Indianapolis Air Line Railway
- Orleans, West Baden and French Lick Springs Railway
- Bedford and Bloomfield Railroad
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis RailwayNashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis RailwayThe Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a railway company operating in the southern United States in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia...
- Bon Air Railroad (Tennessee)
- Duck River Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad (Tennessee)
- Huntsville and Elora Railroad (Alabama)
- Inman Branch (Tennessee)
- McMinnville and Manchester Railroad (Tennessee)
- Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway
- Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
- Nashville and North Western Railroad (Tennessee)
- Hickman and Obion Railroad
- Nashville and North Western Railroad (Tennessee)
- Nashville and Tuscaloosa Railroad with Allen's Creek Extension (Tennessee)
- Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama RailroadPaducah, Tennessee and Alabama RailroadThe Paducah, Tennessee & Alabama Railroad was formed in July 1889 by consolidation of the Paducah and Tennessee Railroad Company , the Paducah and Tennessee Railway Company and the Paducah and Tennessee Railroad Company...
- Paducah and Tennessee Railroad of Kentucky
- Paducah and Tennessee Railway of Tennessee
- Tennessee Midland Railroad
- Pikeville Branch (Tennessee)
- Rome RailroadRome RailroadThis railroad was first chartered as the Memphis Branch Railroad and Steamboat Company of Georgia in 1839. This company built a 20 mile line between Rome, Georgia and Kingston where it connected with the Western and Atlantic Railroad...
(Georgia) - Sequatchie Valley RailroadSequatchie Valley RailroadThe Sequatchie Valley Railroad was originally part of the Jasper Branch Railroad that was founded in 1860. The SQVR took over in the mid 1990s and now runs from Bridgeport, Alabama, to near Jasper, Tennessee. It is categorized as a "Local Railroad" by the AAR.- References :*...
- Southwestern Railroad (Tennessee)
- Tennessee and Coosa Railroad (Alabama)
- Tennessee and Pacific RailroadTennessee and Pacific RailroadThe Tennessee and Pacific Railroad was a 19th-century American company that operated a rail line from Lebanon, Tennessee, to Nashville, Tennessee.The state of Tennessee chartered the railroad on May 24, 1866...
(Tennessee) - Tracy City Branch (Tennessee)
- West Nashville Branch (Tennessee)
- Western and Atlantic RailroadWestern and Atlantic RailroadThe Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia' is a historic railroad that operated in the southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee....
(Georgia and Tennessee) - Winchester and Alabama Railroad (Alabama)
External links
- Seaboard System family tree (PDFPortable Document FormatPortable Document Format is an open standard for document exchange. This file format, created by Adobe Systems in 1993, is used for representing documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems....
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