The Carrollton and Worthville Railroad
a.k.a., the C. & W., a.k.a., the Come and Wait, a.k.a., The Careworn and Worthless

Engine Number 1, in “Carrolton”  from the L&N Magazine, 1928 That's St. John's in the background	“The Greatest Little Railroad Car in America”

 

That's the C. & W. R. R.'s first President, James Gayle
behind the controls of this jitney.  It made daily trips back and forth
between Carrollton and Worthville. carrying passengers, freight, and mail.

 

Carrollton Railroad #548

 

Carrollton Railroad #1882, 1956
From a Facebook post by Mason Reed of a C. Castner photo
 

Engine 103 on the  C. & W. R. R. Co.	Engine 938 on the C. & W. R. R. Co.	Carrollton, #548 April 19, 1938	The L&N in Carrollton,  circa 1945, #938

 

Carrollton and Worthville RR at the station

 

Fifth and Polk
From a Facebook post by Mandel Breeden

 

Carrollton Railroad at Hill's Grocery	The Carrollton & Worthville Railroad	L & N Offices at Fifth and Polk, c. 1943		L & N Offices, Fifth and Polk, c. 1962

 

The curvature of the track was too sharp for the locomotive to back in to Carrollton's furniture factory, so they had to add a few extra box cars to reach the cars on the back of the siding.  This is from a feature story on the Carrollton Railroad from 1943. The complete story is here (pdf).

 

Locomotive (1943) and earlier passenger car in Carrollton	The last steam engine poses with the first diesel, 1957.

 

Leaving Carrollton, 1938

More detail on the Carrollton and Worthville Railroad than you likely wanted.

The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin ran a history (pdf) of the Carrollton Railroad by Kenneth E. Kipfer, in 1944.		The L&N Employee Magazine ran a feature (pdf) on Carrollton in May, 1962.
The Journal of the CSXT Historical Society had a full feature (pdf) on the Carrollton Railroad in 2014. You can visit them at their web site.
And before there was the railroad, there were stage coaches. Read about them here.		The first phone call ever made from a train was from between Worthville and Carrollton.  It used “chemicalized steam.”  Story is here.

“Articles of Incorporation were filed at Carrollton last week, incorporating a company that proposes to build an electric line of railway from Warsaw to Milton and from Carrollton to English Station. The capital stock of the company is $50,000. The company also proposes to build a bridge over the Kentucky river at Carrollton.” Warsaw Independent, November 26, 1898

Pass for riding the Carrolton and Worthville
From a Facebook post by Nathan Bedford