The C & O and the L & N Railroads

L&N and C&O Depot, Newport, c. 1910 C&O tracks, looking west	L&N and C&O Depot, Newport, c. 1910 Looking East down C&O track L&N track to the left, behind the depot	L&N and C&O Depot, Newport, circa 1945
The Short Line's (L&N's) schedule from April, 1879.

 

Location of Newport Depot

 

Chessie passenger train passes under the Wagon Wheel Bridge
From a Facebook post by Frank Michaels

 

The Wagon Wheel Bridge
note Mt. St. Martin's on the hill to the right, and Dorsel's Flour, straight ahead.
from a Facebook post by Sam Routzon

 

Miles of Smiles with Dorsel's Flour

 

c. 1910	c. 1945	c. 1936

C & O Depot, Newport, with Malt House and NX Tower

The tall building is Wiedemann's malt house (A malt house is a building where cereal grain is converted into malt by soaking it in water, allowing it to sprout, and then drying it to stop further growth. ).The two story railroad building is the old NX Tower. The tower houses the man operating the switches. It's two story not for improved vision, but because that's how high a switching tower had to be to accommodate the switching equipment. Note the Monmouth underpass in the second image. The image on the far right shows the newer NX Tower.

 

The back side of the depot	Depot waiting room, December, 1946
Copyrighted images from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Society, and used here with their kind permission.

 

Freight house at the depot, 1946. Copyrighted images from the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Society, and used here with their kind permission.

 

An EMD SD-38 from the Toledo, Detroit and Ironton Railroad heads south on Saratoga on August 2, 1981.	Westbound Amtrak #51 passes the C&O Station in Newport, September 19, 1981	Heading south on Saratoga, from Cincinnati to Silver Grove, August 22, 1981
All three of these great Newport scenes are copyrighted photos by Don Faris.  Clicking on the links will take you to railpics.net, where the originals reside.

Somebody had the idea to elevate the tracks, all along Saratoga. Really. 1904.

 

Coming off the L&N Bridge going south on Saratoga
From a Facebook post by Will Lack

 

C&O Depot, 1983	Along the C. & O. in Newport The L&N is to the far right	Newport Freight Depot circa 1950's; looking west

 

A passenger train at the Newport Depot

 

The Funeral Train of Pres. Dwight Eisenhower came thru Newport on April 1, 1969 left, from a Facebook post by Shirley Turner

 

On the L&N in the Finchtown section of Newport, 1913	The C & O comes thru Newport	L & N Locomotive in Newport

 

Back when the railroad ran down Saratoga Street, L&N maintained a
freight depot between 5th and 6th.

The 1914 Louisville & Nashville Shippers' Guide had this listing for Newport.

“The Short-Line Railroad [L&N] has been completed to Constans' Brewery, on the Alexandria Pike, and a construction train ran to that point yesterday.” from the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, June 23, 1871
There are more C. & O. Locomotive Pictures here.	The C & O Historical Society is here.	The L & N Historical Society is here.	There are lots more L & N. pics in the Latonia pages, here.