Here’s another railroad that put their main timetable covers (as shown below) on the back. The front cover on this timetable is an ad with a larger four-color photo of “L&N’s Country Ham Breakfast,” which consisted of salt-cured ham, red … Continue reading
Category Archives: Louisville & Nashville
In addition to the ones already shown here, I am grateful to Ellery Goode for contributing more than 30 other timetables. I was going to present them in alphabetical order, but it makes more sense to group them by geography. … Continue reading
Biloxi, Mississippi; New Orleans; Mobile, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida are familiar names among the Gulf Coast resort towns advertised in this brochure. But some are not so familiar, including De Funiak Springs, Florida; Evergreen, Alabama; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; and Harrogate, … Continue reading
The Louisville & Nashville‘s main line in 1886 was from Cincinnati to New Orleans (via Louisville and Nashville), with branches to Memphis, Knoxville, and Lexington plus another line or branch from St. Louis to Nashville. The railroad offered two trains … Continue reading
At first glance this looks like an ordinary 8″x9″ railroad advertising booklet, printed on individual sheets that are 16″ wide. It turns out, however, that each page unfolds to be 16″ wide, so the sheets they are printed on are … Continue reading
This 1946 brochure introduces Louisville & Nashville’s Cincinnati-New Orleans all-coach streamliner. Built by American Car & Foundry with stainless steel trim, the train included a diner, tavern-lounge, and five coaches. Though it went about the same distance as Illinois Central’s … Continue reading
Unlike some railroad maps, which have a map on one side and advertising on the other, this one has maps on both sides: the United States on the back and a close-up of the South on the front, leaving just … Continue reading
At one time, the Louisville & Nashville had five trains on the “Dixie Route” to Florida, but by 1965 it was down to just one: the South Wind, which left Chicago at 8:35 am and arrived in St. Petersburg the … Continue reading
At first glance, this menu is bigger and fancier than yesterday’s 1955 menu. The cover is a folder that is blank on the inside; the menu itself is a four-page insert held into the folder with a gold tassel (which … Continue reading
Judging from the “C-NO-NO-C” code on the bottom of page 3, this menu was used on one of L&N’s two Cincinnati-New Orleans trains, the Humming Bird or Pan-American. The former left Cincinnati in the afternoon and New Orleans in the … Continue reading