Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-05-11
THE NASHVILLE AND CINCINNATI
RAILROAD PROJECT.
From the Louisville JournalI

From the Louisville Journal
We see from the papers of Nashville that
our friends in that city are anxious for
more direct rail communication with Gin
cinnati, and propose TO build a new road
parallel with the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. Our Nashville friends can hardly
be aware that before another year expires
they will have the most direct railroad con-
nection which can be established between
| the two points without having to invest
/ dollar in the enterprise they now propose.
The Louisville, Frankfort, and Lexington
| Railroad Company is now actively engaged
| in preparing for the construction of the
branch road from Lagrange to Cincinnati.
| The distance from Louisville to Cincinnati
| by this route is one hundred and five miles,
and from Cincinnati to Nashville two hun
| dred and ninety miles. This distance will
be run with passenger trains, without
changing cars, in fourteen hours, or perhaps
in less time, and freight will go through
from Cincinnati 10 Nashville without break
ing bulk The Louisville and Nashville
railroad, in connection with the boats plying
between here and Cincinnati, carries at
present not only all the freight that mer-
chants want TO ship, all passengers who wish
to 90 to Nashville, but is able to carry ten
times more than it now does, and this with
out any further investment on the part of
the citizens Of Nashville.
| Do our Nashville and Cincinnati friends
! know that the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road, with its extension to Cincinnati now
in progress of construction, is the shortest
and most direct route that can be built be-
tween Nashville and Cincinnati?
Draw straight line between these two
points on the map and you will find that the
| location of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road occupies that line as far as Munfords-
! vile, one hundred and twelve miles from
| Nashville. At Bardstown Junction, one
! hundred and fifty-three miles from Nash
vile, the Louisville and Nashville railroad
has only diverged from it twelve miles; at
| Louisville twenty-nine uiles; while Paris,
a station on the Kentucky Central railroad,
| by which route it is now proposed to reach
| Nashville from Cincinnati in a more direct
way, is fifty miles to the east of a straight
| line between Cincinnati and Nashville
| Have our Nashville friends we repeat, con-
sidered this Do they wish to invest some
| six million dollars to attain more circuit
GUS railroad connection with Cincinnati than
| they now have, or rather will have in the
| course Of a year, without any expenditure of
money on their part? However, if the
| Nashville and Cincinnati people have sur
| plus funds to invest, we advise them, as it is
not yet too late, to take stock in, or bonds of
the Louisville and Cincinnati Branch rail-
road. 1t will be a profitable investment
| There are only eighty miles of road to build.
| Cincinnati will then be connected with
after the completion of the Decatur and
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| Pensacola, upon the shortest possible routes
much shorter routes indeed, than by way
/ of the proposed Southern road to Chat
| tanOOga, or by a route to Nashville via Dam
| vile.
The distance between Cincinnati and De-
catur by way of the proposed Southern road,
which taps the Tennessee and Georgia road
| at Philadelphia, is 500 miles. From Gin
cinnati to Decatur, by way of Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, there are 4l2 miles.
| Cincinnati is therefore 7S miles nearer to
| all points South of Decatur, say Montgom-
| cry, Mobile, and Pensacola, by way of the
| Louisville and Nashville Railroad, than by
way of this proposed Southern road.
The difference is still greater in favor of
the Louisville route if Memphis and New
| Orleans are to be reached from Cincinnati
The distance from Cincinnati to Memphis
by way of the Southern road to PhiIadel-
phia and Chattanooga, and over the Mem
phis and Charleston road, is 6SS miles, and,
by way of Louisville and GAINESVILLE, 4S2
miles; the difference in favor of the Louis
vile route being 206 miles.
The distance from Cincinnati to New Or
leans by the Southern road is l,O2l miles,
and by way of Louisville and GAINESVILLE
80 miles; the difference in favor of the
Louisville route being 266 miles
Thus it is seen, that, as far as Cincinnati
is concerned in reaching all points to the
Southwest of Cincinnati, the existing rail
road connections, after the completion of
the Louisville and Cincinnati branch road,
will be all that they can desire. They can
not be improved.