Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad
The Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad was a 19th-century railway company in Kentucky in the United States. It operated from 1882, when it purchased the Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad and the , until 1896, when it was purchased by the Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad. It later made up part of the Illinois Central network and its former rights-of-way currently form parts of the class-II Paducah and Louisville Railway.
It connected with the Owensboro and Nashville Railway (subsequently part of the L&N network) at Central City in Muhlenberg County.
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- Defunct Kentucky railroads
- Defunct companies based in Kentucky
- United States railway company stubs
- Kentucky transportation stubs
- United States rail transportation stubs