L&N: Louisville & Nashville Overview

Blake Donnelly posted

 

West Florida Railroad Museum posted
1959 map highlighting L&N, Atlantic Coast, & Clinchfield Railroad lines

Daniel Cassidy: What's interesting about this map is that Atlantic Coast Line controlled this entire system. ACL had a controlling interest in Louisville & Nashville (and Monon) and Clinchfield. After the ACL merged Seaboard Air Line becoming Seaboard Coast Line the whole system became a part of "Family Lines".

Matthew Cole: Black and slightly less black. That’s not confusing at all. [In fact, they look the same on my monitors.]

Wesley Meiss shared

2026 US-20 Bridge over Cazenovia Creek in West Seneca, NY

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

See "1929,1968 US-20 Bridges" for the concrete arch bridge that this bridge is replacing and the plans for this bridge.

US-20 Overview

Street View, Jul 2022

The bridge replacement cost $48.5m. [governor]

Sep 1, 2025:

Bubba Dubs posted nine photos with the comment:

The northbound route 20 bridge over Cazenovia creek has been completed and they have begun demolishing the old 1929 bridge. Traffic going northbound begun moving on Thursday at 7am and southbound traffic commenced at 3pm that same day. 

I got the drone up to document what I could of the almost 100 year old structure’s last days. Very interesting cement arches, you definitely don’t see that anymore!!!

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Bubba Dubs posted 17 photos with the comment: "I went back again last night and flew with a little more precision and got under the bridge. Those arches are beautiful."

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Apr 29, 2026:

Bubba Dubs posted nine photos with the comment: "Took a stroll over to the Route 20 bridge tonight for a little drone flight."

[The other lanes have already been replaced. So I still don't know what the old bridge looked like. Obviously, the new one is a steel-girder bridge.]

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1903 Mountain Rail/Western Maryland Kelly (Cheat Mountain) and Glady Tunnel

Kelly: (Satellite, label is west portal. East Portal)

Glady: (Satellite, label is east portal. I could not find the west portal)

I had a hard time finding what Linda's reel below called the Cheat Mountain Tunnel. I've decided it is called Kelly Tunnel on Google Maps. While looking for the Cheat Mountain Tunnel, I found the Glady Tunnel.

Kelly (Cheat Mountain) Tunnel

They had to add a lot of rock anchors in this area. And here we see one of the curves.

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The tunnel is 1,800' (549m) long with an S-shaped curve. She heard that it has the sharpest mainline curves in the US.

One reason why I had a hard time finding the tunnel is that those curves are not very sharp. But I can believe that they are the sharpest mainline tunnel curves. The hairpin road on this topo map is now Old Rte 33 on Google Maps.

1969/71 Elkins Quad @ 24,000

Glady Tunnel

The W Fork Trail ends at this east portal. That trail goes south along the West Fork Glady Fork and intersects with the High Falls Trail. The High Falls Trail goes to the High Falls, which is where the New Tygart Flyer terminates. The New Tygart Flyer is the tourist train that goes through the Kelly Tunnel. The round trip, 46-mile, 4-hour train ride originates in Elkins, WV, 

Amy McLaughlin-Hitt, Sep 2024

The New Tygart Flyer Uses a Western Maryland Branch

The reason I found Glady Tunnel is that I originally followed the mainline from Elk River Junction when I should have taken the WM branch along Shavers Fork to Fall Run.

1969 Beverly East and 1968 Glady Quads @ 24,000

It is worth noting that the labels for the Fall and Red Runs are reversed on the 1909 map. And this map shows that the branch was built after 1909. Originally, I had looked on the mainline route all the way south past Burner, WV, for the Cheat Mountain Tunnel and found just frustration.

1909 Elkins and 1924 Horton Quads @ 62,400

1958,1998 WV-7 Bridge over Ohio River at New Martinsville, WV

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2023

It is just downstream from the Hannibal Locks and Dam.

Street View, Jun 2023

BridgeHunter calls this a through truss. It is 2,100' (640m) long with a main span of 715' (218m).

Street View, Oct 2025

1830,1981 Rishel Covered Bridge over Chillisquaque Creek near Mantandon, PA

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

2019 Photo by Steve & Judy Yordy via BridgeHunter
The span is 121' (37m).

Larry Williams, Nov 2021

Laurie Purcell, Jul 2020

"At one point alleged to have been built 1812 by James Moore II, father of the founder of nearby Bucknell University, which at the time would have made it the nation's oldest covered bridge, and it was promoted as such on postcards and tourist brochures. Later research in the 1980s proved it to have been built in 1830 instead." [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

Linda says a bridge was built here in 1812, but it was reconstructed in 1830 after it was damaged by a flood in 1828. Note the 1972 flood water line near the top on the left. That was from Hurricane Agnes. Restoration work was done in 1981 using wood from an 1830 school.

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