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Louisville & Nashville Railroad 1850-1963 by Kincaid A Herr
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad 1850-1963 by Kincaid A Herr
Hard Cover w/Dust jacket
402 pages
Copyright 2000
CONTENTS
Foreword to the 2000 Edition vii Author's Note ix
Chapter
I An Acorn is Planted 1
II Behind the Blueprints 6
III Wresting a Passageway 11
IV The Course is Shaped 15
V First Through Train 20
VI Mars in the Ascendant 29
VII Recovery from War 39
VIII Southward to Coal and Iron 45
IX Yellow Jack and Teredos 53
X Coke Feeds the Furnace 62
XI Presidential Parade 67
XII Changing the Rail Gauge 76
XIII Growth in Mining Areas 84
XIV Entering the Cumberlands 91
XV Expanding Services 100
XVI Builders and Wreckers 108
XVII More Bluegrass Pastures 114
XVIII Alabama Steel 120
XIX Consolidation Maneuvers 127
XX Nashville's New Station 135
XXI Southward-to Georgia 144
XXII New Fields of Usefulness 151
XXIII L'Affaire Gates-Hawley 160
XXIV Shop Talk 164
XXV Y's and Otherwise 169
XXVI A Look at Eastern Kentucky 178
XXVIINorth Fork Extension 187
XXVIII Harlan County Coal 199
XXIX Adjustment to War 207
XXX Federal Control 214
XXXI War's Aftermath 223
XXXII An Era Ends 230
XXXIII We Mend Our "Ways" 238
XXXIV Belt-Tightening 247
XXXV Water on the Track 256
XXXVI War Again! 266
XXXVII World War II Years 274
XXXVIII The First Century Ends 282
XXXIX First Ten-Second Hundred 290
XL Into the Space Age 304
Appendix I From Wood to Steel 328
II "Varnish" Train Ensemble 337
III L. & N. Motive Power 349
IV L. & N. Roadway and Track 367
Presidents of the L. & N 385
Railroads Acquired, Leased or Constructed 388
In Grateful Acknowledgment 389
Indices 390
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
When the Louisville & Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the West, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the twentieth century, the L&N grew into one of the nation's major rail systems, reaching from the Great Lakes to the Ohio River Valley and down to Florida and the Gulf Coast.
Kincaid Herr worked for the Louisville & Nashville for more than forty years, and this book originated as a series of articles that he wrote for L&N Magazine between 1939 and 1942. After various printings through the 1940s and '50s, this fifth edition, completely revised and updated, was released in 1964.
The 1950s saw the reluctant abandonment of the old steam engine (the L&N was a major coal-carrying railroad) in favor of the diesel. During the late 1950s and early '60s, the railroad experienced significant expansion in the South, where the economy was being fueled by new industry. Coal, automobiles, mail, and passengers all counted on the L&N to get them around the region.
Herr traces the development and expansion of the L&N system over a century and profiles important company figures, such as longtime L&N president Milton Smith. Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan and railroad bandit Morris Slater also find their place in this entertaining history. Four appendices on topics ranging from the materials used to build trains to passenger equipment to motive power round out the complete, but accessible, account.
Even after all these years, this volume remains the concise, illustrated history of The old Reliable" for its many fans around the world.
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