Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway

<p>Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway<br />History and Steam Locomotives <br /><br />Richard E. Prince<br /><br />Richard E. Prince's long out-of-print encyclopedic study of the Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway The Dixie Line with hundreds of vintage photographs schematics maps and rosters. <br /><br />Railroad buffs historians and casual readers alike will be delighted by the reappearance of Richard E. Prince's Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. It was originally published in 1967 and its reputation as the foremost work on this railroad is still unchallenged.<br /><br />The NC&StL Railway originated in 1845 as the Nashville and Chattanooga RR. Taken over by the Union Army during the Civil War it suffered extensive damage from Confederate attack but was rebuilt and operated by the U.S. Military Railroad for over two years. Returned to its owners in September 1865 it became the Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. in 1873 after absorbing the Nashville & Northwestern RR.<br /><br />During the next 25 years it became known to the public first as the Tennessee Line then as the Lookout Mountain Route. In 1890 it gained entrance into Atlanta as lessee of the state-owned Western & Atlantic RR. Paducah and Memphis were reached in 1896 when lines of the former Paducah Tennessee & Alabama RR were leased from L&N. At its zenith in the 1920s it operated approximately 1259 miles of track from the Mississippi and Ohio rivers through Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama to Atlanta Georgia.<br /><br />In 1880 to eliminate the threat of competition that was developing between the two companies the Louisville & Nashville RR acquired control of the NC&StL Ry. much to the dismay of the citizens of Nashville and for the next 77 years it operated as a prosperous subsidiary of the Old Reliable. It was actually absorbed by the L&N organization in 1957 to become part of the Nashville and W&A divisions. But it will always be remembered by the people of Tennessee and Georgia as the original Dixie Line--the route of such Chicago-Florida passenger trains as the Dixie Flyer Dixie Limited Dixie Express Dixie Mail Dixieland Dixie Flagler and Dixiana.<br /><br />Maps schedules rosters diagrams and hundreds of photographs supplement historical information on the company and technical information on the trains. <br /><br />Richard E. Prince attended Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta. During World War II he joined the Merchant Marine and sailed on steam Liberty ships. He worked in several capacities for the L&N Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad. Prince retired in 1983 and lives in Omaha Nebraska. He has written ten books on railroads.<br /><br />May 2001<br />196 pages 348 b&w photos 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 index<br />cloth0-253-33927-8$59.95 t / £45.00<br /><br />Contents<br />Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.--Historical Sketch<br />Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.--The Tennessee Line<br />Western & Atlantic Railroad<br />Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.---Lookout Mountain Route<br />Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.--The Dixie Line<br />Steam Locomotives--Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.<br />Steam Freight and Passenger Trains--NC&StL Ry.<br />Steam Locomotive Diagrams</p>