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 |
|
|
1874 |
1931 |
N/A |
|
Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad |
|
C&O |
1850 |
1904 |
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky |
|
Maysville and Lexington Railroad |
|
L&N |
1850 |
1856 |
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Northern Division
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Southern Division |
|
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, North Division |
|
L&N |
1876 |
1921 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Northern Division |
|
L&N |
1868 |
1875 |
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, North Division |
|
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Southern Division |
|
L&N |
1868 |
1921 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad |
|
IC |
1878 |
1881 |
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad |
|
Middle Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad |
|
L&N |
1880 |
1888 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Middlesborough Railroad |
|
L&N |
1895 |
1896 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Middlesborough Belt Railroad |
|
L&N |
1890 |
1895 |
Middlesborough Railroad |
|
Middlesboro Mineral Railway |
|
SOU |
1900 |
1905 |
Cumberland Railway |
|
Millers Creek Railroad |
|
C&O |
1909 |
1933 |
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
|
The Milwaukee Road, Inc. |
MILW |
MILW |
1985 |
1986 |
Soo Line Railroad |
|
Mississippi Central Railroad |
|
IC |
1859 |
1874 |
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad |
|
Mississippi River Railway |
|
IC |
1860 |
1872 |
Paducah and Memphis Railroad |
|
Mobile and Ohio Railroad |
|
GM&O |
1848 |
1940 |
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad |
|
Monon Railroad |
MON |
MON |
1956 |
1971 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Morehead and North Fork Railroad |
|
|
1905 |
1973? |
N/A |
|
Morehead and West Liberty Railroad |
|
|
|
1906 |
Morehead and North Fork Railroad |
|
Morganfield and Atlanta Railroad |
|
L&N |
1905 |
1921 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Mount Sterling Coal Road |
|
C&O |
1874 |
1882 |
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railway |
|
Mountain Central Railway |
|
|
1914 |
1928 |
N/A |
|
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad |
|
L&N |
|
1873 |
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway |
|
Nashville and Clarksville Railroad |
|
IC |
1901 |
1902 |
Tennessee Central Railroad |
|
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway |
N&C
NC |
L&N |
1873 |
1957 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Nashville and North Western Railroad |
|
L&N |
1855 |
1871 |
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad |
|
New Orleans and Ohio Railroad |
|
IC |
1852 |
1869 |
Paducah and Gulf Railroad |
|
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad |
|
IC |
1874 |
1877 |
Central Mississippi Railroad |
|
Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company |
|
L&N |
1868 |
1904 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
|
Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company |
|
C&O |
|
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
|
Norfolk and Western Railway |
N&W
NW |
N&W |
|
1998 |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
|
Northern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad |
|
L&N |
1878 |
1900 |
Shelbyville, Bloomfield and Ohio Railroad |
|
Ohio and Big Sandy Railroad |
|
C&O |
1889 |
1902 |
Lexington and Big Sandy Railway |
|
Ohio and Kentucky Railway |
|
|
1894 |
1933 |
N/A |
|
Ohio and Kentucky Bridge Company |
|
C&O |
1886 |
1886 |
Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company |
|
Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia Railway |
|
C&O |
1886 |
1887 |
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad |
|
Ohio River and Charleston Railway of Kentucky |
|
C&O |
1894 |
1902 |
Lexington and Big Sandy Railway |
|
Ohio Valley Railroad |
|
IC |
1880 |
1886 |
Ohio Valley Railway |
|
Ohio Valley Railway |
|
IC |
1886 |
1897 |
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad |
|
Ohio Valley Coal and Mining Company |
|
IC |
1886 |
1888 |
Ohio Valley Railway |
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Ohio Valley Railroad and Mining Company |
|
IC |
1882 |
1886 |
Ohio Valley Coal and Mining Company |
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Olympia and Owingsville Railway |
|
|
1916 |
1918 |
N/A |
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Owensboro, Falls of Rough and Green River Railroad |
|
IC |
1882 |
1897 |
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad |
|
Owensboro and Nashville Railroad |
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L&N |
1877 |
1881 |
Owensboro and Nashville Railway |
|
Owensboro and Nashville Railway |
|
L&N |
1881 |
1921 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
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Owensboro and Russellville Railroad |
|
L&N |
1867 |
1873 |
Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad |
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Owingsville and Olympia Railroad |
|
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1915? |
1916 |
Olympia and Owingsville Railway |
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Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad |
|
IC |
1877 |
1882 |
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad |
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Paducah and Gulf Railroad |
|
IC |
1869 |
1872 |
Paducah and Memphis Railroad |
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Paducah and Illinois Railroad |
PI |
CB&Q
IC
L&N |
1910 |
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Still exists as a joint subsidiary of the BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, and CSX Transportation |
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 |
|
IC |
1888 |
1913 |
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad |
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Paris, Georgetown and Frankfort Railroad |
|
|
1871 |
1888 |
Kentucky Midland Railway |
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Passenger and Belt Railway |
|
C&O |
1888 |
1895 |
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
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Penn Central Transportation Company |
PC |
|
1968 |
1976 |
Consolidated Rail Corporation |
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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 |
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Portsmouth and Tygart Valley Railroad |
|
|
1892? |
≤1911 |
N/A |
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Princeton and Ohio River Railroad |
|
L&N |
1882 |
1885 |
Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad |
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Red River Valley Railroad |
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|
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1914? |
N/A |
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Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beattyville Railroad |
|
L&N |
1888 |
1899 |
Louisville and Atlantic Railroad |
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Rockcastle Railroad |
|
|
1913 |
1913 |
Rockcastle River Railway |
|
Rockcastle River Railway |
|
|
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 |
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Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Railway |
|
C&O |
1902 |
1933 |
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway |
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Seaboard System Railroad |
SBD |
|
1983 |
1986 |
CSX Transportation |
|
Shelby Railroad |
|
L&N |
1851 |
1902 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
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Shelbyville, Bloomfield and Ohio Railroad |
|
L&N |
1900 |
1901 |
Louisville and Nashville Railroad |
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Short Route Railway Transfer Company |
|
IC |
1873 |
1897 |
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad |
|
Soo Line Railroad |
SOO |
|
1986 |
2006 |
Indiana Rail Road |
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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 |
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Southern Railway |
SOU |
SOU |
1894 |
1990 |
Norfolk Southern Railway |
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Southern Railway in Kentucky |
|
SOU |
1894 |
1944? |
Southern Railway |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Woodford Railroad |
|
SOU |
1871 |
1889 |
Louisville Southern Railroad |
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