Tag: Railroad

Book Notes – The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South

The Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Rail Road: Dreams of Linking North and South. By H. Roger Grant. (2014 Pp. 191. $40.00. Hardcover. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/) ISBN: 978-0-253-01181-7. Roger Grant is a History Professor at Clemson University and has written over 30 books, several of which involved railroads. …

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Railroad Bridge to Nowhere – Any Ideas?

KHS is looking to find information about this railroad bridge opening.  The photograph, featuring a locomotive travelling across the newly constructed bridge, is part of the Wolff, Gretter, Cusick and Hill Studios Negatives (Graphic 2).  Little is known about the image other than it was taken in 1929 for the …

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