The Louisville and Nashville Railroad (reporting mark LN), commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the great success stories of American business.

The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Historical Society was organized in 1982 for the purpose of collecting, organizing, preserving, and sharing information and material relating to the L&N, its predecessors and its successors. At its zenith, the L&N was a 6,000-mile railroad system that served 13 states.

Under Smith, the L&N grew from a small local carrier into one of America's major railroad systems. The railroad's entrance into the Gulf of Mexico ports came in 1881. A 140-mile rail line, including roughly nine miles of trestles and bridges, linked Mobile with New Orleans, but there was little contact with the outside world until the L&N ...

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2024年10月12日 · The Louisville and Nashville Railroad served the heart of the Southeast from New Orleans and Memphis to Atlanta and the Florida Panhandle. It also extended to St. Louis and later reached Chicago. The L&N carries precedence as one of the few to maintain its originally chartered name, operating for more than 120 years as the Louisville & Nashville.

2017年10月8日 · The Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad achieved national recognition as one of the most profitable and influential railroads in the southern market from the second half of the nineteenth to well into the twentieth century.

2024年5月15日 · The L & N Railroad and connecting lines were strategic in their timing and locations in Alabama. They provided the transportation and jobs needed to transition Alabama from an agriculturally based economy to a more diverse industrialized state.

At full growth (1971), L & N operated 6,500 route miles in thirteen states, with main lines extending from Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis to Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. L & N and three other large railroads - Seaboard, Chesapeake & Ohio and Baltimore & Ohio - merged in 1980 to become CSX Transportation.

The L&N acquired the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis (NC&StL) in 1957, part of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois (C&EI) in 1961 and the Monon in 1971, expanding their lines north and west. The L&N, along with its long-time competitor the Southern Railway, also purchased part of the Tennessee Central after it went bankrupt in 1968 adding one ...

The L&N Railroad was comprised of two primary north-to-south mainlines, Cincinnati to Atlanta and Cincinnati to New Orleans. There were also major lines to St. Louis and to Memphis. Additional maps of the L&N Railroad will be added in the future.