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(rshsdepot) Re: Southern Depots

 
 
In a message dated 8/3/2007 4:37:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
UnknownSender_@_UnknownDomain writes:

Dumb  question - when is it NC&StL and when is it L&N? I know the railroads  
shared rail from Atlanta to Cartersville, and ultimately combine and  
recombine (and recombine again) to become Family Lines and then CSX,  but  I 
always think of Etowah as  Louisville and Nashville  station and line(s). 


The L&N bought the NC&St.L in a hostile stock take over in 1880.  The allowed 
the NC to operate as a subsidiary company until August 1957. The  NC&St.L had 
trackage from Chattanooga to Atlanta by 99 year lease of the  Georgia state 
owned Western and Atlantic RR. As a side note the L&N made a  deal with the 
State of Georgia where the state gained control of the Civil War  engine "The 
General" in exchange for a renewal of the lease.
 

Terry L.  Coats- VP
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Ry. 
Preservation  Society
www.ncstl.com



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