The L&N ran from Maysville to Paris, and beyond.
The C&O ran along the River, from Ashland to Covington.
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| Louisville and Nashville Depot, Maysville |
L & N Depot in the 1913 Flood (from a Facebook post by John Henderson) |
L & N Depot in the 1937 Flood |
The new L&N Depot, September, 1939 |
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| October, 1941. The last run of Train 140. |
April 1929 L&N agency staff |
L&N Local Freight Crew in Maysville, February, 1948. from the left, that's “Dapper Dan” Clark, flagman; “Dude” Hennessy, engine man; R. C. Burdine, fireman; William A. Taylor, brakeman; “Heavy” Reese, conductor, and D. A. Roebuck, Agent. |
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| Engine 776, taken at the Maysville roundhouse in 1905. That's Roy Fightmaster on the running board, and W. H. Heckman in the cab window. |
L&N, April 12, 1893 |
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| Little Teapot, Maysville, 1910 | L & N 152, a 4-6-2 Excursion Steam Engine in Maysville |
The University of Louisville Library is the home of the L&N company records. They're all on-line, here. They include a complete set of the digitized employee magazine. |
| “A prominent citizen says there have been at least nine hundred houses put up or rebuilt in Maysville since the completion of the Kentucky Central Railroad [L&N]. For several years prior to that there had been but little building” from Maysville's Daily Evening Bulletin, August 2, 1887 | “Maysville has received her first consignment from the interior by railroad. The cars brought in on the 24th a shipment of wheat from a station eight miles out on the new railroad.” Courier-Journal, August 29, 1970 |
“Our neighbors down at Limestone have organized a firm for building railroad cars. They have already contracts for building cars for the Lexington and Maysville road.” The Portsmouth Inquirer, March 18, 1853 |
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| The 1914 L&N Shippers' Guide had this description of Maysville. | “There are twenty-five thousand hands employed on the Lexington and Maysville railroad.” From the Meigs County (Ohio) Telegraph, May 3, 1853. The paper later cited the current number as 1,500, so the original number is suspicious. We’d guess it may mean 2,500 instead of 25,000. Either way, a LOT of workers. |
| The first railroad construction wasn't without its own controversies, here. | “The first train of cars over the Maysville and Lexington [rail]road reached Paris on Monday [March 4]. The completion of this undertaking can not be other than a source of satisfaction. Formerly a very extensive wagon trade was done between Maysville and Lexington. But that was all done away with. The Maysville and Lexington railroad,commenced nineteen years ago and now completed, will restore to some extent that business, as it will place Lexington nearer to Maysville than Cincinnati by thirty or forty miles.” Courier-Journal, March 6, 1872 |
| Both the C&O and the L&N have on-line historical societies. The L&N's is here; and the C&O's is here. |
