Anyone know what railroad ran through Pride Kentucky. There is depot building still there but I can find no info.
Looking at topo maps it appears the RR ran to Clay to the southeast to Join the L&N went up near Hammer to the NW. Was this a branch line of the L&N?
I cannot find a map of Union county ky that has any RR name on it. just “old railroad bed”
Any info appreciated.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
That part of Western Kentucky is pretty hard scrabble. There were ( maybe still are(?) lots of coal strip mining activities).
If memory serve me correctly, there is a large coal fired power plant in the area of Sebree, Ky. Pride, Ky is on what years ago was a truck route between Madisonville,Ky ( used to be LIgon’s(a Truck Line) HQ ( a flat bed outfit) and the Toll Bridge over the Ohio River between Shawneetown,IL. and Old Shawneetown, KY(?). and McLean, Il.
That part of Kentucky was narrow roads, and coal trucks burning up the roads ( years back the truckers used road tractors and ‘Euc’(Euclid) bottom dump trailers with earth mover style rear tires. It was pretty wild and crazy. Not to mention the area was riddled with small railroad branchlines ( ICRR( now Paducah& Louisville) and L&N RR, were a couple that I remember real well.)
I haven’t back over that area in quite a number of years (1970/80’s). After that my travels were pretty much confined to the Western Kentucky Turnpike and the Pennyrile Trnpk.
yes it was L&N
Thank you both for the info. It was looking like L&N but the map for L&N was not detailed down that far and stopped at Clay KY.