List of Kentucky Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Altamont and Manchester Railroad 1890 1898
Ashland Coal and Iron Railway 1880 1933
Bardstown and Louisville Railroad 1854 1864
Barren County Railroad 1856 1868
Beattyville and Cumberland Gap Railroad 1893 1900
Big Sandy Railway 1902 1906
Big Sandy and Cumberland Railroad 1900 1932
Big Sandy and Kentucky River Railway 1912 1933
Bowling Green and Tennessee Railroad 1850 1852
Bowlinggreen Portage Railway 1836 1853
Brooksville Railroad 1895 1919
Brooksville and Ohio River Railroad 1919 1931
Burnside and Cincinnati Railway 1903 1905
Burnside and Cumberland River Railway 1890 1905
Cadiz Railroad 1901 1988
Caney Valley Railway 1910 1933
Carolina, Cumberland Gap, and Chicago Railway 1882 1895
Carrollton and Worthville Railroad 1905 1929
Central City Passenger and Transportation Company 1888 1888
Central Mississippi Railroad 1877 1878
Central Transfer Company 1884 1890
Central Transfer Railway and Storage Company 1890 Unknown
Charleston, Cincinnati, and Chicago Railroad 1887 1893
Chattaroi Railway 1873 1888
Chesapeake and Nashville Railway 1884 1892
Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway 1914 1930
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Kentucky 1904 1907
Chesapeake, Ohio, and Southwestern Railroad 1882 1896
Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway 1897 1956
Chicago, Memphis, and Gulf Railroad 1910 1963
Chicago, St. Louis, and New Orleans Railroad 1878 1951
Cincinnati Southern Railway 1869 Unknown
Cincinnati and Southeastern Railway 1880 1892
Cincinnati, Burnside, and Cumberland River Railway 1905 1970
Cincinnati, Flemingsburg, and Southeastern Railroad 1905 1920
Cincinnati, Green River, and Nashville Railroad 1882 1884
Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad 1867 1873
City Passenger Railway 1886 1888
Clinchfield Northern Railway of Kentucky 1911 1940
Covington Short Route Transfer Railway 1888 1904
Covington and Cincinnati Elevated Railroad and Transfer and Bridge Company 1886 1985
Covington and Cincinnati Pier Bridge Company 1884 1886
Covington and Lexington Railroad 1849 1859
Covington, Flemingsburg, and Ashland Railway 1892 1905
Covington, Flemingsburg, and Pound Gap Railway 1876 1879
Covington, Flemingsburg, and Southeastern Railway 1880 1880
Cumberland Railroad 1902 1924
Cumberland Railway 1882 1944
Cumberland River and Tennessee Railroad 1893 1901
Cumberland and Manchester Railroad 1915 1936
Cumberland and Ohio Railroad 1869 1878
East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway 1890 1894
Eastern Kentucky Railway 1870 1929
Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad 1867 1874
Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big Sandy Railroad 1869 1902
Elkhorn Southern Railway 1906 1911
Elkhorn and Beaver Valley Railway 1904 Unknown
Elkton Railroad 1871 1884
Elkton and Guthrie Railroad 1884 1957
Evansville, Henderson, and Nashville Railroad 1867 1872
Evansville, Owensboro, and Nashville Railroad 1873 1877
Falls City Belt Line Railway 1902 1903
Flemingsburg and Northern Railroad 1920 1955
Frankfort and Cincinnati Railway 1897 1927
Frankfort, Paris, and Big Sandy Railroad 1871 1881
Gallatin and Scottsville Railway 1906 1907
Glasgow Railroad 1868 1899
Glasgow Railway 1899 Unknown
Henderson Belt Railroad 1888 1957
Henderson Bridge Company 1872 1906
Henderson Bridge and Railroad Company 1906 1906
Henderson and Nashville Railroad 1837 1867
Hickman and Obion Railroad 1853 1855
Hodgenville and Elizabethtown Railway 1884 1902
Illinois Central Railroad 1851 1972
Indiana, Alabama, and Texas Railroad 1885 1887
Jellico, Bird-Eye, and Northern Railway 1893 1902
Kentucky Central Railroad 1861 1887
Kentucky Central Railway 1887 1891
Kentucky Highlands Railroad 1907 1915
Kentucky Midland Railroad 1904 1922
Kentucky Midland Railway 1888 1897
Kentucky Northern Railroad 1896 1900
Kentucky Southern Railroad 1872 1882
Kentucky Union Railway 1854 1894
Kentucky Valley Railroad 1905 1913
Kentucky Western Railway 1899 1902
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company 1880 1900
Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Railroad Company 1900 1910
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad 1910 1981
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad 1888 1902
Kentucky and South Atlantic Railway 1882 1887
Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad 1870 1904
Kentucky and Virginia Railroad 1915 1915
Kentucky, Rockcastle, and Cumberland Railroad 1913 Unknown
Kinniconnick and Freestone Railway 1890 1908
Knox Creek Railway 1912 1936
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap, and Louisville Railroad 1888 1895
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap, and Louisville Railway 1895 1896
Lenox Railroad 1918 1926
Levisa River Railroad 1911 1946
Lexington Union Station Company 1905 Unknown
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad 1852 1864
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Eastern Division 1865 1880
Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad, Western Division 1865 1871
Lexington and Big Sandy Railway 1902 1904
Lexington and Danville Railroad 1850 1858
Lexington and Eastern Railway 1894 1915
Lexington and Frankfort Railroad 1848 1869
Lexington and Ohio Railroad 1830 1842
Lexington and Southern Kentucky Railroad 1860 1867
Licking River Railroad 1899 1913
Licking Valley Railway 1880 1899
Licking and Lexington Railroad 1847 1849
Long Fork Railway 1912 1933
Louisville Bridge Company 1856 1918
Louisville Bridge and Railroad Company 1918 1918
Louisville Bridge and Terminal Railway 1918 1954
Louisville Railway Transfer Company 1871 1893
Louisville Southern Railroad 1884 1894
Louisville and Atlantic Railroad 1899 1909
Louisville and Frankfort Railroad 1847 1869
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge Company 1887 1917
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge and Railroad Company 1917 1968
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1850 1983
Louisville and Southwestern Railway 1882 1889
Louisville, Cincinnati, and Lexington Railroad 1869 1877
Louisville, Cincinnati, and Lexington Railway 1877 1881
Louisville, Cloverport, and Western Railway 1880 1882
Louisville, Hardinsburg, and Western Railway 1888 1892
Louisville, Harrods Creek, and Westport Railroad 1879 1904
Louisville, Harrods Creek, and Westport Railway 1870 1879
Louisville, Harrodsburg, and Virginia Railroad 1868 1884
Louisville, Henderson, and St. Louis Railway 1896 1984
Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railway 1882 1897
Louisville, Paducah, and Southwestern Railroad 1874 1876
Louisville, St. Louis, and Texas Railway 1882 1896
Madisonville and Shawneetown Straight Line Railroad 1870 1872
Madisonville, Hartford, and Eastern Railroad 1905 1912
Mammoth Cave Railroad 1874 1931
Maysville and Big Sandy Railroad 1850 1904
Maysville and Lexington Railroad 1850 1856
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, North Division 1876 1921
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Northern Division 1868 1875
Maysville and Lexington Railroad, Southern Division 1868 1921
Memphis, Paducah, and Northern Railroad 1878 1881
Middle Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad 1880 1888
Middlesboro Mineral Railway 1900 1905
Middlesborough Belt Railroad 1890 1895
Middlesborough Railroad 1895 1896
Millers Creek Railroad 1909 1933
Mississippi Central Railroad 1852 1967
Mississippi River Railway 1858 1872
Mobile and Ohio Railroad 1848 1940
Morehead and North Fork Railroad 1905 1973
Morehead and West Liberty Railroad Unknown 1906
Morganfield and Atlanta Railroad 1905 1921
Mount Sterling Coal Road 1874 1882
Mountain Central Railway 1914 1928
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad 1845 1873
Nashville and Clarksville Railroad 1901 1902
Nashville and North Western Railroad 1855 1871
Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway 1873 1957
New Orleans and Ohio Railroad 1852 1871
New Orleans, St. Louis, and Chicago Railroad 1874 1877
Newport and Cincinnati Bridge Company 1868 1904
Norfolk and Western Railway 1896 1998
Northern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad 1878 1900
Ohio River and Charleston Railway of Kentucky 1894 1902
Ohio Valley Coal and Mining Company 1886 1888
Ohio Valley Railroad 1880 1886
Ohio Valley Railroad and Mining Company 1882 1886
Ohio Valley Railway 1871 1897
Ohio and Big Sandy Railroad 1889 1902
Ohio and Kentucky Bridge Company 1886 1886
Ohio and Kentucky Railway 1894 1933
Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia Railway 1886 1887
Olympia and Owingsville Railway 1916 1918
Owensboro and Nashville Railroad 1877 1881
Owensboro and Nashville Railway 1881 1921
Owensboro and Russellville Railroad 1867 1873
Owensboro, Falls of Rough, and Green River Railroad 1882 1897
Owingsville and Olympia Railroad 1915 1916
Paducah Union Depot Company 1888 1913
Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad 1877 1882
Paducah and Gulf Railroad 1869 1872
Paducah and Illinois Railroad 1910 Unknown
Paducah and Memphis Railroad 1872 1877
Paducah, Tennessee, and Alabama Railroad 1892 1895
Paris, Georgetown, and Frankfort Railroad 1871 1888
Passenger and Belt Railway 1888 1895
Pennsylvania Terminal Railway 1903 1918
Pine Mountain Railroad 1905 1913
Portsmouth and Tygart Valley Railroad 1892 1911
Princeton and Ohio River Railroad 1882 1885
Red River Valley Railroad 1875 1914
Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine, and Beattyville Railroad 1888 1899
Rockcastle Railroad 1913 1913
Rockcastle River Railway 1913 1932
Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Railway 1902 1933
Shelby Railroad 1851 1902
Shelbyville, Bloomfield, and Ohio Railroad 1900 1901
Short Route Railway Transfer Company 1873 1897
South Kentucky Railroad 1871 1880
South and Western Railroad 1905 1909
South and Western Railway 1901 1906
Southern Division of the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad 1878 1903
Southern Railway 1894 1990
Southern Railway in Kentucky 1894 1944
Southwestern Railroad 1845 1899
St. Louis and South Eastern Railway 1872 1879
St. Louis and Southeastern Railway 1869 1872
Tennessee Central Railroad 1883 1922
Tennessee and Kentucky Railroad 1881 1881
Tug River and Kentucky Railroad 1913 1936
Versailles and Midway Railway 1884 1889
Wasioto and Black Mountain Railroad 1908 1915
Williamson and Pond Creek Railroad 1912 1936
Winchester and Beattyville Railroad 1878 1893
Woodford Railroad 1871 1889