The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company completed the latest section of track on its Memphis Branch. The new forty-six mile stretch enabled a special train that same day to run between Louisville and Clarksville, Tennessee and a celebratory dinner was held for 700 people there. Regular service began on September 24, 1860 with the 64-mile run from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Clarksville taking three and a half hours. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Kincaid A. Herr, The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963 (Louisville, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 28.
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