First published in 1967, "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky" and its sister volumes "Ghost Railroads of Indiana" (1970) and "Ghost Railroads of Tennessee" (1975) provide the authoritative account of the lines, lore, and legends in the railroad heartland east of the Mississippi. With endpaper maps of Kentucky showing all the lines and keyed to the text Professor Sulzer has produced the essential reference work for those interested in railroading in the Bluegrass state.Fans may be surprised to learn, for instance, that Kentucky has boasted 28 narrow guage railroads, or that Louisville even had a narrow gauge commuter line. He tells this and all the other wonderful Kentucky railroad stories with sparkling anecdotes, painstaking research and hundreds of photographs, charts, and maps. In addition there are five full color illustrations by Norman C. Miller, Jr painted especially for this volume. Based on thousands of interviews, and meticulous original scholarship "Ghost Railroads of Kentucky" is essential for the historian, hobbiest, and buff; in short, for anyone interested in Kentucky's place in rail history. As a genuine Kentucky Colonel, Professor Sulzer is the person to tell the story.
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This book is similar in style, layout, and contents to Sulzer's other books. It has lots of anecdotes and human interest stories about hardscrabble lines (and pieces of bigger roads) that operated for a time in Kentucky, and then vanished. You'll find a wealth of material in here about local history and economic development in the Blue Grass State. Buy it - you'll enjoy it.
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The Kentucky Union Railway was incorporated in 1872, primarily to reach coal and timber resources in southeastern Kentucky. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mixed train, pin couplers, log cars, daily round trip, one locomotive, narrow gauge line, gas motor, mile segment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nashville Railroad, Licking River, Mammoth Cave, North Fork, Red River, Big Sandy, Iron Mountain, Bell Farm, Cumberland Railroad, Mountain Central, Bloomfield Branch, Campton Junction, Union City, Cannel City, Cumberland River, George Yater, Harrods Creek, East Bernstadt, Illinois Central Railroad, Ohio Railway, Southern Railway System, New Orleans, Ohio Valley, White Oak Junction, Interstate Commerce Commission New!
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The Kentucky Union Railway was incorporated in 1872, primarily to reach coal and timber resources in southeastern Kentucky. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mixed train, pin couplers, log cars, daily round trip, one locomotive, narrow gauge line, gas motor, mile segment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nashville Railroad, Licking River, Mammoth Cave, North Fork, Red River, Big Sandy, Iron Mountain, Bell Farm, Cumberland Railroad, Mountain Central, Bloomfield Branch, Campton Junction, Union City, Cannel City, Cumberland River, George Yater, Harrods Creek, East Bernstadt, Illinois Central Railroad, Ohio Railway, Southern Railway System, New Orleans, Ohio Valley, White Oak Junction, Interstate Commerce Commission New!
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- The Ohio River (Rivers of North America) by Tom Jackson on page 133, and Back Matter
- Stone City (Signet) by Mitchell Smith on page 89, and page 90
- FATHER OF WATERS (White Indian) by Donald C. Porter on page 157
- A History of Kentucky by Thomas Dionysius Clark in Back Matter
- The Red River by D.M. Thomas on page 55
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- Trains across the Continent, Second Edition: North American Railroad History by Rudolph Daniels in Back Matter
- Ghost Railroads of Indiana by Elmer G. Sulzer in Back Matter
- The Kentucky River (The Ohio River Valley Series) by William E. Ellis in Back Matter
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