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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

 Organization

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

H. C. Griswold photographs and papers

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1979_026-PA

Jim Latimer railroad timetables

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2016_118

I. Walton King Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1988_086-UA
Scope and Contents

These papers include studies, reports (some involving King or generated by King), to improve L&N operations, as well as proposals made by railroad equipment suppliers.

Dates: circa 1908-1988

Larry Elmore South Louisville Shops photographs and the Right Track newsletter

 Unprocessed Material — Box Small collections box 4
Identifier: 2019_131

L&N Railroad photographs

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 1996_020-PA
Dates: circa 1880s - 1960s

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company records

 Collection
Identifier: 1993_092-UA
Topical List This collection documents the relationship between the railroad and the city of Louisville, and industrialization of the New South, including north Alabama steel manufacture and eastern Kentucky coal mining. Includes minutes, annual reports, and legal documents from nearly 100 early Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and other southern railroads. Topics include real estate transactions in southern and midwestern states, construction and maintenance of track, bridges, and terminals,...
Dates: 1850-1982

Louisville and Nashville Railroad foreman’s daily time books

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2017_043

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Historical Society publications and printed material

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 1998_164-UA
Content Description

Included are four issues of The Dixie Line, the society's official bulletin, from 1986 and 1987; two 1987 issues of its newsletter, "Old Reliable;" eight issues from 1979 and 1980 of the Kentucky Railway Museum's newsletter; two 1979 issues of "The Hoosier Line," a newsletter of the Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society; and several issues, dating from 1974 to 1980, of The Bluegrass Railroader.

Dates: 1974-1986

Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway records

 Collection
Identifier: 1980_089-UA
Scope and Contents This historically important railroad was chartered by Tennessee in 1845 as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company. It was known popularly as "The Nashville." Reorganized only once, in 1873, renamed the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway, the railroad operated successfully thereafter in an era when many failed. It never reached St. Louis, but stretched from Paducah, Kentucky, on the Ohio River to Atlanta, with branches crisscrossing Tennessee. The railway was bought by the...
Dates: circa 1845-1957

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Type
Collection 16
Unprocessed Material 12
 
Subject
Railroads 11
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company -- Employees 3
Glass negatives 2
Louisville (Ky.) -- History 2
Municipal government -- Kentucky -- Louisville 2