NASHVILLE CHATTANOOGA & ST LOUIS RAILROAD LANTERN ADLAKE RELIABLE NC&StL 1897

NASHVILLE CHATTANOOGA & St LOUIS RAILWAY. This is a nice piece of Vintage Railroad History made by THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE CO. For the NASHVILLE CHATTANOOGA & ST LOUIS RAILWAY.

This lantern is marked THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE CO. PATENTED SEPT 21, 1897, last date APR. The Corning clear glass globe is etched N.

No cracks, some flea chips around rims. The Brass Burner is marked THE P&A MFG. And is in good working condition.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 1,189 miles (1,914 km).

Was a railway company operating in the. Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad , chartered in. In December 11, 1845, built to. To operate in the state of Tennessee. By the turn of the twentieth century, the. Grew into one of the most important railway systems in the southern United States. The Nashville & Chattanooga Railway, predecessor to the NC&StL Railway, was organized in 1848 by a group of prominent Nashville, Tennessee businessmen. By virtue of his connections to wealth from the Grundy and Bass families of Nashville, and of his vigorous promotion of a line between Nashville and Chattanooga.

Was elected president of the line and served in that capacity for sixteen years. The first locomotive in Nashville arrived in December 1850 on the. The train made its first trip the following spring, 11 miles (18 km) to.

It took nine years to complete the 150 miles (240 km) of line between Nashville and Chattanooga. Made difficult by the steep elevations of the. The 2,228 feet (679 m). Was considered an engineering marvel of the time. Due to terrain difficulties, the rail line crossed into Alabama and Georgia for short distances.

Towns sprang up during construction, including. The rail line was strategic to both the. The Tennessee campaigns of 1862 and 1863 saw Union troops force the Confederates from Nashville all the way to. Down the line of the railroad. The tracks and bridges were repeatedly damaged and repaired, and the rolling stock was largely destroyed.

At different times the trains carried supplies for both armies. In 1885, the railroad successfully defended itself before the Supreme Court in. In 1873 it was reincorporated as the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (NC&StL) though the company's tracks never actually reached. In early 1877 the NC&StL bought the bankrupt.

From the state government and operated it as a connection to. An aggressive competitor of the NC&StL, gained a controlling interest in 1880 through a hostile stock takeover that caused much rancor between the cities of Nashville and Louisville. However, the railroads continued to operate separately until finally merging in 1957.

The company gave up steam operations in 1953. After the 1880 takeover, the NC&StL acquired branch lines in Kentucky and Alabama, and expanded from Nashville to Memphis. In 1890 the tracks reached.

List of Branches in Order of Their Acquisition. In 1902, the L&N was acquired by the.

In a takeover similar to that of the NC&StL, but continued to operate as a separate company. In 1982, the L&N's corporate existence ended when it was merged into ACL's successor, the. After several other mergers, in 1986 the Seaboard System was renamed. Which continues to use the original NC&StL route between Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta.

Other portions of the system, such as the route to Hickman, have been abandoned. At the end of 1925 NC&StL operated 1259 miles of road on 1859 miles of track; at the end of 1956 mileages were 1043 and 1791. Revenue passenger traffic, in millions of passenger-miles.

The railroad operated a number of named passenger trains, including. Once the coach section of the all Pullman. And at another time the interim name of the. (winter season only until the early 1950s). Ran every third day; later renamed the.

Thus, the railroad came to be advertised as the'Dixie Line,' beginning in the 1920s. Additionally, the railroad operated the. Name dropped before 1910, then known as Nos. Volunteer , an unnamed night train formerly the. Memphis Limited , a Nashville-Hickman local, plus a through sleeping car from the.

3 and 4, a Chicago-to-Augusta, Georgia, train. Another part of the train split at Chattanooga and continued as a. Operation through eastern Tennessee, and onward to Washington and the Northeast Corridor. Locomotives from the NC&StL's predecessor road, the Western and Atlantic are on display in museums.

Are in the Atlanta suburbs of. In 1953, the NC&StL donated its last steam engine, No. 576, to the city of Nashville.

Locomotive was manufactured by the. The NC&StL referred to their 4-8-4s as. Dixies , while most other railroads called them. It has been on display in. In 2016, the city of Nashville allowed the Nashville Steam Preservation Society to take out a 23-year renewable lease on the locomotive. The group aims to move the locomotive to the. In late 2018 or early 2019, restore it to working order, and use it for weekend excursion runs from downtown Nashville east to Watertown. Two other NC&StL steamers survive, 0-4-0Ts that used to work in the shops.

They are stored in Taylorsville and are in either private ownership or abandoned. They appear to still have yellow-painted handrails. In 2004, a former NC&StL. 710, was restored to its original paint scheme by the.

The TVRM also has the tail car from the city of Memphis on display at its Grand Junction Yard in Chattanooga. In 2007, Huntsville terminal switcher No. 100, a former NC&StL GE 44 ton Diesel (1950) was moved from.

To the Cowan Railroad Museum in. Though subsequently an L&N engine (number 3100), she was cosmetically restored to original scheme and number. In the process, the locomotive was found to be runnable. It is important as the first transistorized remote control locomotive in the US (converted in 1962).

The item "NASHVILLE CHATTANOOGA & ST LOUIS RAILROAD LANTERN ADLAKE RELIABLE NC&StL 1897" is in sale since Monday, August 12, 2019. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Transportation\Railroadiana & Trains\Hardware\Lanterns & Lamps". The seller is "railcarhobbies" and is located in Warsaw, Missouri.

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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Brand: Adams & Westlake Co.