Name
|
Mark
|
System[nb 1]
|
From
|
To
|
Successor
|
Notes
|
Altamont and Manchester Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1890
|
1898
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Artemus–Jellico Railroad
|
AJR
|
|
1924
|
1952
|
N/A
|
|
Ashland Coal and Iron Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1880
|
1933
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
|
B&O BO
|
B&O
|
1905
|
1987
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Bardstown and Louisville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1854
|
1864
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Barren County Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1856
|
1868
|
Glasgow Railroad
|
|
Beattyville and Cumberland Gap Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1893
|
1900
|
Louisville and Atlantic Railroad
|
|
Big Sandy Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1902
|
1906
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky
|
|
Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad
|
BS&C
|
N&W
|
1900
|
1932
|
Norfolk and Western Railway
|
|
Big Sandy and Kentucky River Railway
|
BS&K
|
C&O
|
1912
|
1933
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Bowling Green and Tennessee Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1850
|
1852
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Bowlinggreen Portage Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1836
|
1853
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Brooksville Railroad
|
|
|
1895
|
1919
|
Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad
|
|
Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad
|
|
|
1919
|
1931
|
N/A
|
|
Buck Creek Railroad
|
|
N&W
|
1924?
|
1936
|
Norfolk and Western Railway
|
|
Burlington Northern Inc.
|
BN
|
|
1970
|
1981
|
Burlington Northern Railroad
|
|
Burlington Northern Railroad
|
BN
|
|
1981
|
1996
|
BNSF Railway
|
|
Burnside and Cincinnati Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1903
|
1905
|
Cincinnati, Burnside and Cumberland River Railway
|
|
Burnside and Cumberland River Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1890
|
1905
|
Burnside and Cincinnati Railway
|
|
Cadiz Railroad
|
CAD
|
|
1901
|
1988
|
N/A
|
|
Caney Valley Railway
|
|
|
1910
|
1933?
|
N/A
|
|
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
|
CC&O, CCO
|
ACL L&N
|
c. 1915
|
1990
|
CSX Transportation
|
|
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway
|
|
|
1882
|
1895
|
N/A
|
Sold at foreclosure; no railroad owned in Kentucky
|
Carrollton and Worthville Railroad
|
|
|
1905
|
1929
|
Carrollton Railroad
|
|
Central City Passenger and Transportation Company
|
|
C&O
|
1888
|
1888
|
Passenger and Belt Railway
|
|
Central Mississippi Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1877
|
1878
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Central Transfer Company
|
|
L&N SOU
|
1884
|
1890
|
Central Transfer Railway and Storage Company
|
|
Central Transfer Railway and Storage Company
|
|
L&N SOU
|
1890
|
|
|
Still exists as a joint subsidiary of CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway
|
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
|
|
C&O
|
1887
|
1893
|
Ohio River and Charleston Railway of Kentucky
|
|
Chattaroi Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1873
|
1888
|
Ohio and Big Sandy Railroad
|
|
Chesapeake and Nashville Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1884
|
1892
|
Gallatin and Scottsville Railway
|
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
C&O CO
|
C&O
|
c. 1880
|
1987
|
CSX Transportation
|
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky
|
|
C&O
|
1904
|
1907
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1914
|
1930
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1882
|
1896
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
|
CB&Q CBQ
|
CB&Q
|
?
|
1970
|
Burlington Northern Inc.
|
|
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway
|
CI&L CIL
|
MON
|
1897
|
1956
|
Monon Railroad
|
|
Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1910
|
1963
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
|
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
|
MILW
|
MILW
|
1973
|
1985
|
The Milwaukee Road, Inc.
|
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1878
|
1951
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
|
Cincinnati, Burnside and Cumberland River Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1905
|
1970
|
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
|
|
Cincinnati, Flemingsburg and Southeastern Railroad
|
|
|
1905
|
1920?
|
Flemingsburg and Northern Railroad
|
|
Cincinnati, Green River and Nashville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1882
|
1884
|
Chesapeake and Nashville Railway
|
|
Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1867
|
1873
|
Cincinnati Southern Railway
|
|
Cincinnati and Southeastern Railway
|
|
|
1880
|
1892?
|
Covington, Flemingsburg and Ashland Railway
|
|
Cincinnati Southern Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1869
|
|
|
Still exists as a lessor of Norfolk Southern Railway operating subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
|
City Passenger Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1886
|
1888
|
Central City Passenger and Transportation Company
|
|
Clinchfield Railroad
|
CRR
|
ACL L&N
|
1924
|
1983
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
|
Clinchfield Northern Railway of Kentucky
|
|
ACL L&N
|
1911
|
1940
|
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
|
|
Consolidated Rail Corporation
|
CR
|
|
1976
|
1994
|
Louisville and Indiana Railroad
|
|
Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company
|
|
C&O
|
1886
|
1985
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Covington and Cincinnati Pier Bridge Company
|
|
C&O
|
1884
|
1886
|
Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company
|
|
Covington, Flemingsburg and Ashland Railway
|
|
|
1892
|
1905
|
Cincinnati, Flemingsburg and Southeastern Railroad
|
|
Covington, Flemingsburg and Pound Gap Railway
|
|
|
1876
|
1879
|
Licking Valley Railway
|
|
Covington, Flemingsburg and Southeastern Railway
|
|
|
1880
|
1880
|
Cincinnati and Southeastern Railway
|
|
Covington and Lexington Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1849
|
1859
|
Kentucky Central Railroad
|
|
Covington Short Route Transfer Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1888
|
1904
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky
|
|
Cumberland Railroad
|
CMB
|
|
1902
|
1924
|
Artemus–Jellico Railroad
|
|
Cumberland Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1905?
|
1944?
|
Southern Railway
|
|
Cumberland Railway
|
|
|
1882
|
1882
|
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway
|
|
Cumberland and Manchester Railroad
|
C&M
|
L&N
|
1915
|
1936
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Cumberland and Ohio Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1869
|
1878
|
Northern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad Southern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad
|
|
Cumberland River and Tennessee Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1893
|
1901
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
East Kentucky Southern Railway
|
EKS
|
|
1928
|
1933
|
N/A
|
|
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1890?
|
1894
|
Southern Railway
|
|
Eastern Kentucky Railway
|
EK
|
|
1870
|
1929
|
East Kentucky Southern Railway
|
|
Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad
|
|
C&O
|
1869
|
1902
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railway
|
|
Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1867
|
1874
|
Louisville, Paducah and Southwestern Railroad
|
|
Elkhorn and Beaver Valley Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1904
|
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Elkhorn Southern Railway
|
|
ACL L&N
|
1906
|
1911
|
Clinchfield Northern Railway of Kentucky
|
|
Elkton Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1871
|
1884
|
Elkton and Guthrie Railroad
|
|
Elkton and Guthrie Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1884
|
1957
|
N/A
|
|
Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1867
|
1872
|
St. Louis and South Eastern Railway
|
|
Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1873
|
1877
|
Owensboro and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Falls City Belt Line Railway
|
|
PRR
|
1902
|
1903
|
Pennsylvania Terminal Railway
|
|
Flemingsburg and Northern Railroad
|
|
|
1920
|
1955
|
N/A
|
|
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad
|
FCIN
|
|
1927
|
1985
|
N/A
|
|
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railway
|
|
|
1897
|
1927
|
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad
|
|
Frankfort, Paris and Big Sandy Railroad
|
|
|
1871
|
1881
|
Paris, Georgetown and Frankfort Railroad
|
|
Gallatin and Scottsville Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1906
|
1907
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Glasgow Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1868
|
1899
|
Glasgow Railway
|
|
Glasgow Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1899
|
|
|
Still exists as a lessor of CSX Transportation
|
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
|
GM&N
|
GM&O
|
1926
|
1938
|
N/A
|
|
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
GM&O GMO
|
GM&O
|
1940
|
1972
|
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|
Hardin Southern Railroad
|
HSRR
|
|
1993
|
2005
|
KWT Railway
|
|
Henderson Belt Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1888
|
1957
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Henderson Bridge Company
|
|
L&N
|
1872
|
1906
|
Henderson Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
Henderson Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
L&N
|
1906
|
1906
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Henderson and Nashville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1837
|
1867
|
Evansville, Henderson and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Hickman and Obion Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1854
|
1855
|
Nashville and North Western Railroad
|
|
Hodgenville and Elizabethtown Railway
|
|
IC
|
1884
|
1902
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
IC
|
IC
|
1882?
|
1972
|
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
|
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
|
ICG
|
|
1972
|
1988
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
|
Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1885
|
1887
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation
|
IHRC
|
|
1986
|
1996
|
CSX Transportation
|
|
Jellico, Bird-Eye and Northern Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1893
|
1902
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
J&J Railroad
|
JJRD
|
|
1983
|
1993
|
Hardin Southern Railroad
|
|
Kentucky Central Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1861
|
1887
|
Kentucky Central Railway
|
|
Kentucky Central Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1887
|
1891
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Kentucky Highlands Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1907
|
1915
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company
|
|
SOU
|
1880
|
1900
|
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
SOU
|
1900
|
1910
|
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad
|
|
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad
|
KIT
|
SOU
|
1910
|
1981
|
Southern Railway
|
|
Kentucky Midland Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1904
|
1922
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Kentucky Midland Railway
|
|
|
1888
|
1897
|
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railway
|
|
Kentucky Northern Railroad
|
|
|
1896
|
1900
|
N/A
|
|
Kentucky, Rockcastle and Cumberland Railroad
|
|
|
1913
|
|
N/A
|
|
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad
|
|
C&O
|
1888
|
1902
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railway
|
|
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1882
|
1887
|
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad
|
|
Kentucky Southern Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1872
|
1882
|
Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railway
|
|
Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad
|
|
GM&O
|
1870
|
1872
|
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
|
|
Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad
|
|
|
1902
|
1904
|
Kentucky and Tennessee Railway
|
|
Kentucky Union Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1854
|
1894
|
Lexington and Eastern Railway
|
|
Kentucky Valley Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1905
|
1913
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Kentucky and Virginia Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1915
|
1915
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Kentucky Western Railway
|
|
IC
|
1899
|
1902
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Kinniconnick and Freestone Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1890
|
1908
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky
|
|
Knox Creek Railway
|
|
N&W
|
1912
|
1936
|
Norfolk and Western Railway
|
|
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1888
|
1895
|
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railway
|
|
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1895
|
1896
|
Middlesborough Railroad
|
|
Lenox Railroad
|
|
|
1918
|
1926?
|
N/A
|
|
Levisa River Railroad
|
|
C&O
|
1911
|
1946
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad
|
|
C&O
|
1852
|
1864
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Eastern Division Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Western Division
|
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Eastern Division
|
|
C&O
|
1865
|
1880
|
Ashland Coal and Iron Railway
|
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Western Division
|
|
C&O
|
1865
|
1871
|
Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad
|
|
Lexington and Big Sandy Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1902
|
1904
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky
|
|
Lexington and Danville Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1850
|
1858
|
Lexington and Southern Kentucky Railroad
|
|
Lexington and Eastern Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1894
|
1915
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Lexington and Frankfort Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1848
|
1869
|
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad
|
|
Lexington and Ohio Railroad
|
LXOH
|
|
1996
|
2003
|
R.J. Corman Railroad/Central Kentucky Lines
|
|
Lexington and Ohio Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1830
|
1842
|
Lexington and Frankfort Railroad Louisville and Frankfort Railroad
|
|
Lexington and Southern Kentucky Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1860
|
1867
|
Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad
|
|
Lexington Union Station Company
|
|
C&O L&N
|
1905
|
|
|
|
Licking and Lexington Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1847
|
1849
|
Covington and Lexington Railroad
|
|
Licking River Railroad
|
|
|
1899
|
1913
|
N/A
|
|
Licking Valley Railway
|
|
|
1896
|
1899
|
Licking River Railroad
|
|
Licking Valley Railway
|
|
|
1880
|
1880
|
Covington, Flemingsburg and Southeastern Railway
|
|
Long Fork Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1912
|
1933
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Louisville and Atlantic Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1899
|
1909
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Louisville Bridge Company
|
|
PRR
|
1856
|
1918
|
Louisville Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
Louisville Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
PRR
|
1918
|
1918
|
Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway
|
|
Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway
|
|
PRR
|
1918
|
1954
|
Penndel Company
|
|
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1869
|
1877
|
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway
|
|
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1877
|
1881
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Louisville, Cloverport and Western Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1880
|
1882
|
Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railway
|
|
Louisville and Frankfort Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1847
|
1869
|
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad
|
|
Louisville, Hardinsburg and Western Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1888
|
1892
|
Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railway
|
|
Louisville, Harrodsburg and Virginia Railroad
|
|
|
1868
|
1884
|
Louisville Southern Railroad
|
Chartered, but never laid track until reörganization
|
Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1879
|
1904
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1870
|
1879
|
Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railroad
|
|
Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railway
|
LH&S LHS
|
L&N
|
1896
|
1984
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
|
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge Company
|
|
NYC
|
1888
|
1917
|
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge and Railroad Company
|
|
NYC
|
1917
|
1968
|
N/A
|
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
L&N LN
|
L&N
|
1850
|
1983
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
|
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railway
|
|
MON
|
1882
|
1897
|
Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway
|
|
Louisville, Paducah and Southwestern Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1874
|
1876
|
Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad
|
|
Louisville Railway Transfer Company
|
|
L&N
|
1871
|
1893
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1882
|
1896
|
Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis Railway
|
|
Louisville Southern Railroad
|
LS
|
SOU
|
1884
|
1894
|
Southern Railway in Kentucky
|
|
Louisville and Southwestern Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1882
|
1889
|
Louisville Southern Railroad
|
|
Madisonville, Hartford and Eastern Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1905
|
1912
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Madisonville and Shawneetown Straight Line Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1870
|
1872
|
St. Louis and Southeastern Railway
|
|
Mammoth Cave Railroad
|
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1874
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1931
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N/A
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Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad
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C&O
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1850
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1904
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky
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Maysville and Lexington Railroad
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L&N
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1850
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1856
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Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Northern Division Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Southern Division
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Maysville and Lexington Railroad, North Division
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L&N
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1876
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1921
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Northern Division
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L&N
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1868
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1875
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Maysville and Lexington Railroad, North Division
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Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Southern Division
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L&N
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1868
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1921
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad
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IC
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1878
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1881
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Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad
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Middle Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad
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L&N
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1880
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1888
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Middlesborough Railroad
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L&N
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1895
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1896
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Middlesborough Belt Railroad
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L&N
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1890
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1895
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Middlesborough Railroad
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Middlesboro Mineral Railway
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SOU
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1900
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1905
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Cumberland Railway
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Millers Creek Railroad
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C&O
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1909
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1933
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
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The Milwaukee Road, Inc.
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MILW
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MILW
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1985
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1986
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Soo Line Railroad
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Mississippi Central Railroad
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IC
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1859
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1874
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New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad
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Mississippi River Railway
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IC
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1860
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1872
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Paducah and Memphis Railroad
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad
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GM&O
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1848
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1940
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Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad
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Monon Railroad
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MON
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MON
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1956
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1971
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Morehead and North Fork Railroad
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1905
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1973?
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N/A
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Morehead and West Liberty Railroad
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1906
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Morehead and North Fork Railroad
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Morganfield and Atlanta Railroad
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L&N
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1905
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1921
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Mount Sterling Coal Road
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C&O
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1874
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1882
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Kentucky and South Atlantic Railway
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Mountain Central Railway
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1914
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1928
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N/A
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Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
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L&N
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1873
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Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
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Nashville and Clarksville Railroad
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IC
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1901
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1902
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Tennessee Central Railroad
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Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
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N&C NC
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L&N
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1873
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1957
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Nashville and North Western Railroad
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L&N
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1855
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1871
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Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad
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New Orleans and Ohio Railroad
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IC
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1852
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1869
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Paducah and Gulf Railroad
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New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad
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IC
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1874
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1877
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Central Mississippi Railroad
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Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company
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L&N
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1868
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1904
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company
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C&O
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
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Norfolk and Western Railway
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N&W NW
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N&W
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1998
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Norfolk Southern Railway
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Northern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad
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L&N
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1878
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1900
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Shelbyville, Bloomfield and Ohio Railroad
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Ohio and Big Sandy Railroad
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C&O
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1889
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1902
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Lexington and Big Sandy Railway
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Ohio and Kentucky Railway
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|
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1894
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1933
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N/A
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Ohio and Kentucky Bridge Company
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C&O
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1886
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1886
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Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company
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Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia Railway
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C&O
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1886
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1887
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Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
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Ohio River and Charleston Railway of Kentucky
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C&O
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1894
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1902
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Lexington and Big Sandy Railway
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Ohio Valley Railroad
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IC
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1880
|
1886
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Ohio Valley Railway
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Ohio Valley Railway
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IC
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1886
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1897
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Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
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Ohio Valley Coal and Mining Company
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IC
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1886
|
1888
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Ohio Valley Railway
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Ohio Valley Railroad and Mining Company
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IC
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1882
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1886
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Ohio Valley Coal and Mining Company
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Olympia and Owingsville Railway
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|
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1916
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1918
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N/A
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Owensboro, Falls of Rough and Green River Railroad
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IC
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1882
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1897
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Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
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Owensboro and Nashville Railroad
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L&N
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1877
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1881
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Owensboro and Nashville Railway
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Owensboro and Nashville Railway
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L&N
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1881
|
1921
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
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Owensboro and Russellville Railroad
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L&N
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1867
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1873
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Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad
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Owingsville and Olympia Railroad
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|
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1915?
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1916
|
Olympia and Owingsville Railway
|
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Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad
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|
IC
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1877
|
1882
|
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad
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Paducah and Gulf Railroad
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|
IC
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1869
|
1872
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Paducah and Memphis Railroad
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Paducah and Illinois Railroad
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PI
|
CB&Q IC L&N
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1910
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|
|
Still exists as a joint subsidiary of the BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, and CSX Transportation
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Paducah and Memphis Railroad
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|
IC
|
1872
|
1877
|
Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad
|
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Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad
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L&N
|
1892
|
1895
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
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Paducah Union Depot Company
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IC
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1888
|
1913
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Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
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Paris, Georgetown and Frankfort Railroad
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|
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1871
|
1888
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Kentucky Midland Railway
|
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Passenger and Belt Railway
|
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C&O
|
1888
|
1895
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Penn Central Transportation Company
|
PC
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|
1968
|
1976
|
Consolidated Rail Corporation
|
|
Penndel Company
|
|
PRR
|
1954
|
1976
|
Consolidated Rail Corporation
|
|
Pennsylvania Railroad
|
PRR
|
PRR
|
1921?
|
1968
|
Penn Central Transportation Company
|
|
Pennsylvania Terminal Railway
|
|
PRR
|
1903
|
1918
|
Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway
|
|
Pine Mountain Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1905
|
1913
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Portsmouth and Tygart Valley Railroad
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|
|
1892?
|
≤1911
|
N/A
|
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Princeton and Ohio River Railroad
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|
L&N
|
1882
|
1885
|
Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad
|
|
Red River Valley Railroad
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|
|
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1914?
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N/A
|
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Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad
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|
L&N
|
1888
|
1899
|
Louisville and Atlantic Railroad
|
|
Rockcastle Railroad
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|
|
1913
|
1913
|
Rockcastle River Railway
|
|
Rockcastle River Railway
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|
|
1913
|
1932
|
N/A
|
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St. Louis and South Eastern Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1872
|
1879
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
St. Louis and Southeastern Railway
|
|
L&N
|
1872
|
1872
|
St. Louis and South Eastern Railway
|
|
Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Railway
|
|
C&O
|
1902
|
1933
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
|
Seaboard System Railroad
|
SBD
|
|
1983
|
1986
|
CSX Transportation
|
|
Shelby Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1851
|
1902
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Shelbyville, Bloomfield and Ohio Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1900
|
1901
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Short Route Railway Transfer Company
|
|
IC
|
1873
|
1897
|
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad
|
|
Soo Line Railroad
|
SOO
|
|
1986
|
2006
|
Indiana Rail Road
|
|
South Kentucky Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1871
|
1880
|
Ohio Valley Railroad
|
|
South and Western Railroad
|
|
ACL L&N
|
1905
|
1908
|
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway
|
|
South and Western Railway
|
|
ACL L&N
|
1902
|
1906
|
South and Western Railroad
|
|
Southern Railway
|
SOU
|
SOU
|
1894
|
1990
|
Norfolk Southern Railway
|
|
Southern Railway in Kentucky
|
|
SOU
|
1894
|
1944?
|
Southern Railway
|
|
Southern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1878
|
1903
|
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
|
|
Southwestern Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1876
|
1889
|
Louisville Southern Railroad
|
|
Tennessee Central Railroad
|
|
IC
|
1902
|
1922
|
Tennessee Central Railway
|
|
Tennessee Central Railway
|
TC
|
IC
|
1922
|
1968
|
Illinois Central Railroad
|
|
Tennessee and Kentucky Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1881
|
1881
|
Owensboro and Nashville Railway
|
|
Tradewater Railway
|
TRWY
|
|
1982
|
1995
|
Western Kentucky Railway
|
|
Tug River and Kentucky Railroad
|
|
N&W
|
1913
|
1936
|
Norfolk and Western Railway
|
|
Versailles and Midway Railway
|
|
SOU
|
1884
|
1889
|
Louisville Southern Railroad
|
|
Wasioto and Black Mountain Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1908
|
1915
|
Kentucky and Virginia Railroad
|
|
Williamson and Pond Creek Railroad
|
|
N&W
|
1912
|
1936
|
Norfolk and Western Railway
|
|
Winchester and Beattyville Railroad
|
|
L&N
|
1878
|
1893
|
Beattyville and Cumberland Gap Railroad
|
|
Woodford Railroad
|
|
SOU
|
1871
|
1889
|
Louisville Southern Railroad
|
|