List of Kentucky railroads
The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
Common freight carriers[]
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad (IC)
- CSX Transportation (CSXT) including subsidiary (CARR)
- Operates the Glasgow Railway
- (FVRR)
- (KT)
- (KWT)
- Louisville and Indiana Railroad (LIRC)
- (LORJ)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) including subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNTP)
- Paducah and Illinois Railroad (PI)
- Paducah and Louisville Railway (PAL)
- R.J. Corman Railroad/Bardstown Line (RJCR)
- R.J. Corman Railroad/Central Kentucky Lines (RJCC)
- R.J. Corman Railroad/Memphis Line (RJCM)
- (TKEN)
- Transkentucky Transportation Railroad (TTIS)
- West Tennessee Railroad (WTNN)
Private freight carriers[]
- Cando Contracting[1]
- Centrus Energy
- [2]
Passenger carriers[]
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- Amtrak (AMTK) - Amtrak has stations at Ashland, South Portsmouth - South Shore, Maysville, and Fulton. There is also an Amtrak bus route connecting Louisville to Indianapolis.
Defunct railroads[]
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Name | Mark | System[nb 1] | From | To | Successor | Notes |
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L&N | 1890 | 1898 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
AJR | 1924 | 1952 | N/A | |||
C&O | 1880 | 1933 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |||
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad | B&O BO |
B&O | 1905 | 1987 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |
L&N | 1854 | 1864 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1856 | 1868 | ||||
L&N | 1893 | 1900 | ||||
C&O | 1902 | 1906 | ||||
BS&C | N&W | 1900 | 1932 | Norfolk and Western Railway | ||
BS&K | C&O | 1912 | 1933 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | ||
L&N | 1850 | 1852 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1836 | 1853 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
1895 | 1919 | |||||
1919 | 1931 | N/A | ||||
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 | ||
SOU | 1903 | 1905 | ||||
SOU | 1890 | 1905 | ||||
Cadiz Railroad | CAD | 1901 | 1988 | N/A | ||
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 | ||
1905 | 1929 | |||||
C&O | 1888 | 1888 | ||||
IC | 1877 | 1878 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
L&N SOU |
1884 | 1890 | ||||
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 | |||
C&O | 1873 | 1888 | ||||
L&N | 1884 | 1892 | ||||
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | C&O CO |
C&O | c. 1880 | 1987 | CSX Transportation | |
C&O | 1904 | 1907 | Chesapeake and Ohio 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 | ||
SOU | 1905 | 1970 | Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway | |||
1905 | 1920? | |||||
L&N | 1882 | 1884 | ||||
Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad | SOU | 1867 | 1873 | Cincinnati Southern Railway | ||
1880 | 1892? | |||||
Cincinnati Southern Railway | SOU | 1869 | Still exists as a lessor of Norfolk Southern Railway operating subsidiary Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway | |||
C&O | 1886 | 1888 | ||||
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 | ||
1892 | 1905 | |||||
1876 | 1879 | |||||
1880 | 1880 | |||||
L&N | 1849 | 1859 | ||||
C&O | 1888 | 1904 | ||||
CMB | 1902 | 1924 | ||||
SOU | 1905? | 1944? | Southern Railway | |||
Cumberland Railway | 1882 | 1882 | Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway | |||
C&M | L&N | 1915 | 1936 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
L&N | 1869 | 1878 | ||||
L&N | 1893 | 1901 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
EKS | 1928 | 1933 | N/A | |||
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway | SOU | 1890? | 1894 | Southern Railway | ||
Eastern Kentucky Railway | EK | 1870 | 1929 | |||
C&O | 1869 | 1902 | ||||
Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad | IC | 1867 | 1874 | Louisville, Paducah and Southwestern Railroad | ||
C&O | 1904 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | ||||
Elkhorn Southern Railway | ACL L&N |
1906 | 1911 | Clinchfield Northern Railway of Kentucky | ||
L&N | 1871 | 1884 | ||||
L&N | 1884 | 1957 | N/A | |||
L&N | 1867 | 1872 | ||||
Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad | L&N | 1873 | 1877 | Owensboro and Nashville Railroad | ||
PRR | 1902 | 1903 | ||||
1920 | 1955 | N/A | ||||
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad | FCIN | 1927 | 1985 | N/A | ||
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railway | 1897 | 1927 | Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad | |||
1871 | 1881 | |||||
L&N | 1906 | 1907 | Louisville and Nashville 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 | |||
L&N | 1888 | 1957 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1872 | 1906 | ||||
L&N | 1906 | 1906 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1837 | 1867 | ||||
L&N | 1854 | 1855 | ||||
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 | ||
L&N | 1885 | 1887 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
Indiana Hi-Rail Corporation | IHRC | 1986 | 1996 | CSX Transportation | ||
L&N | 1893 | 1902 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
JJRD | 1983 | 1993 | Hardin Southern Railroad | |||
L&N | 1861 | 1887 | ||||
L&N | 1887 | 1891 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1907 | 1915 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
SOU | 1880 | 1900 | ||||
SOU | 1900 | 1910 | ||||
KIT | SOU | 1910 | 1981 | Southern Railway | ||
IC | 1904 | 1922 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
1888 | 1897 | Frankfort and Cincinnati Railway | ||||
1896 | 1900 | N/A | ||||
1913 | N/A | |||||
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad | C&O | 1888 | 1902 | |||
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railway | C&O | 1882 | 1887 | Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad | ||
L&N | 1872 | 1882 | ||||
GM&O | 1870 | 1872 | Mobile and Ohio Railroad | |||
1902 | 1904 | |||||
L&N | 1854 | 1894 | ||||
IC | 1905 | 1913 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
L&N | 1915 | 1915 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
IC | 1899 | 1902 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
C&O | 1890 | 1908 | ||||
N&W | 1912 | 1936 | Norfolk and Western Railway | |||
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad | L&N | 1888 | 1895 | |||
L&N | 1895 | 1896 | ||||
1918 | 1926? | N/A | ||||
C&O | 1911 | 1946 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |||
C&O | 1852 | 1864 | ||||
C&O | 1865 | 1880 | ||||
C&O | 1865 | 1871 | ||||
C&O | 1902 | 1904 | ||||
Lexington and Danville Railroad | SOU | 1850 | 1858 | Lexington and Southern Kentucky Railroad | ||
L&N | 1894 | 1915 | Louisville and Nashville 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 | Louisville and Frankfort Railroad |
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Lexington and Southern Kentucky Railroad | SOU | 1860 | 1867 | Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad | ||
C&O L&N |
1905 | |||||
L&N | 1847 | 1849 | ||||
1899 | 1913 | N/A | ||||
1896 | 1899 | |||||
1880 | 1880 | |||||
C&O | 1912 | 1933 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |||
L&N | 1899 | 1909 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
PRR | 1856 | 1918 | ||||
PRR | 1918 | 1918 | ||||
PRR | 1918 | 1954 | ||||
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 | ||
L&N | 1880 | 1882 | ||||
Louisville and Frankfort Railroad | L&N | 1847 | 1869 | Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad | ||
L&N | 1888 | 1892 | ||||
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 | ||
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 | ||
L&N | 1871 | 1893 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1882 | 1896 | ||||
Louisville Southern Railroad | LS | SOU | 1884 | 1894 | ||
Louisville and Southwestern Railway | SOU | 1882 | 1889 | Louisville Southern Railroad | ||
L&N | 1905 | 1912 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1870 | 1872 | ||||
Mammoth Cave Railroad | 1874 | 1931 | N/A | |||
C&O | 1850 | 1904 | ||||
Maysville and Lexington Railroad | L&N | 1850 | 1856 | Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Northern Division Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Southern Division |
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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 | ||
IC | 1878 | 1881 | Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad | |||
L&N | 1880 | 1888 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1895 | 1896 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1890 | 1895 | ||||
SOU | 1900 | 1905 | ||||
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 | |||
IC | 1860 | 1872 | ||||
Mobile and Ohio Railroad | GM&O | 1848 | 1940 | Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad | ||
Monon Railroad | MON | MON | 1956 | 1971 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |
1905 | 1973? | N/A | ||||
1906 | ||||||
L&N | 1905 | 1921 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
C&O | 1874 | 1882 | Kentucky and South Atlantic 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 | |
L&N | 1855 | 1871 | Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad | |||
New Orleans and Ohio Railroad | IC | 1852 | 1869 | |||
IC | 1874 | 1877 | ||||
Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company | L&N | 1868 | 1904 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
C&O | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |||||
Norfolk and Western Railway | N&W NW |
N&W | 1998 | Norfolk Southern Railway | ||
L&N | 1878 | 1900 | ||||
C&O | 1889 | 1902 | ||||
1894 | 1933 | N/A | ||||
Ohio and Kentucky Bridge Company | C&O | 1886 | 1886 | Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company | ||
C&O | 1886 | 1887 | Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad | |||
C&O | 1894 | 1902 | ||||
IC | 1880 | 1886 | ||||
IC | 1886 | 1897 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
IC | 1886 | 1888 | ||||
IC | 1882 | 1886 | ||||
1916 | 1918 | N/A | ||||
IC | 1882 | 1897 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
Owensboro and Nashville Railroad | L&N | 1877 | 1881 | Owensboro and Nashville Railway | ||
Owensboro and Nashville Railway | L&N | 1881 | 1921 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
Owensboro and Russellville Railroad | L&N | 1867 | 1873 | Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad | ||
1915? | 1916 | |||||
Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad | IC | 1877 | 1882 | Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad | ||
IC | 1869 | 1872 | ||||
Paducah and Illinois Railroad | PI | CB&Q IC L&N |
1910 | Still exists as a joint subsidiary of the BNSF Railway, Canadian National Railway, and CSX Transportation | ||
IC | 1872 | 1877 | ||||
Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad | L&N | 1892 | 1895 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
IC | 1888 | 1913 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
1871 | 1888 | |||||
C&O | 1888 | 1895 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |||
Penn Central Transportation Company | PC | 1968 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | ||
PRR | 1954 | 1976 | Consolidated Rail Corporation | |||
Pennsylvania Railroad | PRR | PRR | 1921? | 1968 | Penn Central Transportation Company | |
PRR | 1903 | 1918 | ||||
L&N | 1905 | 1913 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
1892? | ≤1911 | N/A | ||||
L&N | 1882 | 1885 | ||||
1914? | N/A | |||||
L&N | 1888 | 1899 | ||||
1913 | 1913 | Rockcastle River Railway | ||||
Rockcastle River Railway | 1913 | 1932 | N/A | |||
L&N | 1872 | 1879 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
L&N | 1872 | 1872 | ||||
C&O | 1902 | 1933 | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | |||
Seaboard System Railroad | SBD | 1983 | 1986 | CSX Transportation | ||
Shelby Railroad | L&N | 1851 | 1902 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | ||
L&N | 1900 | 1901 | Louisville and Nashville Railroad | |||
IC | 1873 | 1897 | Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad | |||
Soo Line Railroad | SOO | 1986 | 2006 | Indiana Rail Road | ||
IC | 1871 | 1880 | ||||
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 | ||
Southern Railway | SOU | SOU | 1894 | 1990 | Norfolk Southern Railway | |
SOU | 1894 | 1944? | Southern Railway | |||
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 | |
L&N | 1881 | 1881 | Owensboro and Nashville Railway | |||
Tradewater Railway | TRWY | 1982 | 1995 | Western Kentucky Railway | ||
N&W | 1913 | 1936 | Norfolk and Western Railway | |||
Versailles and Midway Railway | SOU | 1884 | 1889 | Louisville Southern Railroad | ||
L&N | 1908 | 1915 | ||||
N&W | 1912 | 1936 | Norfolk and Western Railway | |||
L&N | 1878 | 1893 | ||||
Woodford Railroad | SOU | 1871 | 1889 | Louisville Southern Railroad |
Electric[]
- Camden Interstate Railway
- Louisville Railway
- Louisville and Eastern Railroad
- Louisville and Interurban Railroad
- Ohio Valley Electric Railway
See also[]
- List of United States railroads
Notes[]
- ^ This is one or more of the Class I railroads that the railroad became part of, if any.
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2007-05-17.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://www.rjcorman.com/
- Association of American Railroads (2003), Railroad Service in Kentucky (PDF). Retrieved May 9, 2005.
- Hilton, George W. (1990). American Narrow Gauge Railroads. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2369-9.
Further reading[]
- Kentucky and Tennessee: a complete guide to their railroads, stations and distances, connections north and south; their rivers, landings ..., Louisville: H. E. Mead, 1867, OL 24157680M
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