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History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad by Maury Klein 1972 1st Print DJ
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad by Maury Klein Railroads of America
Copyright 1972 First Printing
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
612 Pages
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTIONxv
1. A Town Grows Legs: The Birth of the L & N1
2. The State Between the War: The L & N in Wartime, 1861-6527
3. The Sinews of Transportation, Part I45
4. The Contours of Postwar Strategy59
5. Combinations and Complications, 1865-7379
6. Northern Invaders and Southern Invasions, 1870-73102
7. The Furies Uncaged: Depression and Expansion, 1872-79123
8. "Newcomb's Octopus": The Zenith of Territorial Expansion, 1879-81150
9. The Financiers Take Charge: Interterritorial Expansion, 1880-83171
10. Scandal and Reorganization, 1884195
11. A Curmudgeon for All Seasons: Milton H. Smith and His Administration223
12. In Pursuit of Profits: Financial Policy, 1885-1902244
13. Tracks to the Door: Developmental Extension, 1885-1902263
14. Childhood's End: Interterritorial Expansion, 1885-1902288
15. The Sinews of Transportation, Part 11314
16. The Great Freight Rate Debate345
17. Through a Glass Darkly: The L & N in Politics, 1880-1920368
18. G: The Close of an Era, 1902-21395
19. From Riches to Rags: Prosperity and Depression, 1921-40419
20. Resurrection and Redirection: War and Modernization, 1941-59452
EPILOGUE: Into the Maw of Progress493
POSTSCRIPT523
APPENDICES 525
NOTES541
BIBLIOGRAPHY555
INDEX 559
ILLUSTRATIONS
L. L. SHREVE6
JOHN L. HELM9
MULDRAUGH'S HILL IN THE LATE 1850S11
JAMES GUTHRIE12
L & N PASSENGER TRAIN ON GREEN RIVER BRIDGE IN 185914 & 15
L & N PASSENGER STATION IN LOUISVILLE IN 185816
FIRST THROUGH TIMETABLE OF THE L & N, 185923
EARLY ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE NEW RAILROAD41
ENGINE NO. I, THE "E. D. STANDIFORD"50
NO. 29, THE FAMOUS "SOUTHERN BELLE"52
WOOD-BURNING L & N TRAIN IN 187052
NAMES OF NINETEEN L & N LOCOMOTIVES AND THEIR BUILDERS53
ALBERT FINK70
RUSSELL HOUSTON87
THE 14TH STREET BRIDGE ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER92 & 93
L & N TRACKS AND FACILITIES IN LOUISVILLE IN 187597
H. D. NEWCOMB100
THOMAS J. MARTIN126
E. D. STANDIFORD 128
THE L & N SYSTEM IN 1875131
PRATT MINE SHAFT IN BIRMINGHAM134
FIRST L & N OFFICE BUILDING IN LOUISVILLE143
CANAL STREET STATION IN NEW ORLEANS159
H. V. NEWCOMB170
E. H. GREEN178
L & N SYSTEM MAP, I884 184
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BALDWIN209
J. S. ROGERS 211
MILTON H. SMITH225
ECKSTEIN NORTON240
THE MINERAL LINES: L & N SYSTEM IN ALABAMA, 1890271
TENNESSEE COAL, IRON AND RAILROAD COMPANY'S ENSLEY BLAST FURNACES AND STEEL WORKS 275
L & N WHARVES AT PENSACOLA, FLORIDA285
CONSTRUCTION ON THE KNOXVILLE-JELLICO LINE, 1902-1905310
NOS. 196 AND 244 WHICH FIRST APPEARED ON THE L & N IN 1883323
NO. 1480, BUILT BETWEEN 1914 AND 192I324
HEAVY 4-6-0 G-13 BUILT BY BALDWIN IN 1903325
FIRST L & N PACIFICS, DELIVERED IN 1905326
DINING-CAR INTERIOR IN THE 1890S329
LOCOMOTIVE-ERECTING SHOP AT SOUTH LOUISVILLE SHOPS338 & 339
L & N GENERAL OFFICE BUILDING AT 9TH AND BROADWAY IN LOUISVILLE341
UNION DEPOT IN BIRMINGHAM342
UNION STATION IN LOUISVILLE342
THE FIRST TRAIN OUT OF THE NEW NASHVILLE UNION STATION IN 1900343
L & N SYSTEM MAP IN 1918399
MAIN LINE TRACKAGE OF THE EASTERN KENTUCKY DIVISION405
FIRST TRAIN INTO HARLAN, KENTUCKY, IN 191I406
FIRST FULL TRAIN OF COAL FROM A HAZARD, KENTUCKY, MINE, APRIL, 1915407
L & N LINES IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, 1925424
THE Pan-American "BROADCAST" OVER WSM, NEAR NASHVILLE IN 1940427
WIBLE L. MAPOTHER432
WHITEFOORD R. COLE433
JAMES B. HILL436
L & N SYSTEM MAP, 1931448
JOHN E. TILFORD461
FIRST FREIGHT DIESELS, ELKATAWA HILL "PUSHERS," IN 1948464 & 465
A MODERN CTC INSTALLATION468
A PIGGYBACK TRAILER IN THE LOUISVILLE TERMINAL469
NEW ORLEANS UNION PASSENGER TERMINAL, OPENED 1954472 & 473
WILLIAM H. KENDALL495
"SECOND-GENERATION" HIGH HORSEPOWER DIESEL497
"BIG BLUE"498
UNIT COAL TRAIN AT PARADISE, KENTUCKY501
NEW DECOURSEY YARD, COMPLETED IN 1963503
AUTOMATIC TIE INSERTER AT WORK504
WELDED RAIL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO THE FIELD LAYING SITE505
AUTOMATIC CAR IDENTIFICATION UNIT ON L & N MAIN LINE508
MULTI-LEVEL AUTO TRANSPORT UNIT AT THE RADNOR YARD, NASHVILLE513
"THE GENERAL," REACTIVATED BY THE L & N IN 1962515
TABLES
TABLE 1 Replacement of iron and crossties during Civil War49
TABLE 2 Competitive agencies for potential L & N Traffic, 186874
TABLE 3 Rolling stock among major southern railroads, 1880164
TABLE 4 Selected data on the L & N during 1894-99258
TABLE 5 L & N freight and passenger rolling stock, 1885-1920331
TABLE 6 Selected data on L & N operations, 1939-45456
TABLE 7 Data on L & N earnings and expenditures, 1946-58488
TABLE 8 Data on L & N employment and wage costs, 1946-58489
TABLE 9 Selected data on L & N traffic, 1946-58491
TABLE 10 Data on L & N passenger traffic, 1946-58492
CHART L & N Rolling Stock 1880-1920332
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
After the Civil War the L & N took the lead among southern railroads in organizing a far-flung rail system. As the road expanded, settlers migrated, bringing new lands under cultivation, opening industries and mines. Two of its early leaders played an important role in its success: Albert Fink, who formulated the post-Civil War policy based on expansion and stabilization, and Milton Smith, who influenced the course of the system's destiny more than any other man except Fink. The death of "Old Curmudgeon" Smith, the strenuous opponent of federal interference, ended the most dynamic period of the company's history and symbolized the closing of an era -the Golden Age of American Railroads.
During World War I came the government take-over of the roads under the Railroad Control Act, and after the Armistice there were difficult postwar adjustments. Later, the Depression followed, with the L & N weathering the storm intact as other systems crashed into receivership. There were other troubled times-the great Ohio River flood in 1937, which left chaos in its wake, and the discouraging years of World War II. After the war, however, there was a dramatic transformation, although accompanied by rampant inflation and violent clashes with labor.
The L & N has always attracted strong leaders, and its is the most efficient administration of any southern road, with the most elaborate and sophisticated accounting system. A testimony to its strength is that, alone among major southern railroads, the L & N has survived external economic crises and internal dissensions without ever succumbing to default, receivership, or reorganization.
Maury Klein covers such events as the railway's battle over conversion to standard gauge, the rate war, safety innovations; the development of new locomotives, freight, passenger, and specialized cars; the inauguration by the L & N of "name" passenger runs; and also tells of the part played by the system in politics at the local, state, and national levels. A lengthy Epilogue sums up the operation as the road began its second century, and new tactics, techniques, and technology emerged.
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad is delightfully readable as well as impeccably researched. While the history of the line is unique, the L & N's development accurately reflects the basic growth pattern for most southern rail systems and illuminates the strenuous adjustments railroads had to make to the new competitive conditions of the automotive and airplane age.
With 70 photographs and numerous charts.
MAURY KLEIN, associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island, is the author of The Great Richmond Terminal and has had several articles published in scholarly journals, among them the American Historical Review and American History Illustrated.
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