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4 unusual facts about Louisville and Nashville Railroad


107th Fighter Squadron

One detachment flew in eight aircraft while the rest arrived by rail over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Crestview, Florida.

Erie doctrine

In one case, for example, Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. 276 U.S. 518 (1928), the Brown and Yellow Cab Company, a Kentucky corporation, sought to create a business association with the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, where Brown and Yellow would have a monopoly on soliciting passengers of the railroad, effectively eliminating the competition, the Black and White Cab Co.

Louisville and Nashville Railroad

The L&N Railroad is also the subject of at least two songs, the 2003 Rhonda Vincent bluegrass song "Kentucky Borderline", and "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" by Jean Ritchie and performed by Michelle Shocked.

Robinson Forest

By 1914 a narrow gauge railroad was constructed, connecting the once isolated region to the sawmills in West Irvine and Quicksand, thereby providing access to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.


Black and White Taxicab and Transfer Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer Company

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad signed an exclusive contract with the Black and White Taxicab company to pick up customers at the railroad station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


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