The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-11
The Nashville and Cincinnati Rail-
road Project.

The Nashville and Cincinnati Rail-
road Project.
From the Louisville Journal.
We see from the papers Of Nashville
that our friends in that city are anxious
fora more direct rail communication
with Cincinnati, 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 connection which
can be established between the two
points without having to invest dol
lar in the enterprise they now propose.
The Louisville, Frankfort and Lex
ington Railroad Company is now &C
lively engaged in preparing for the con-
struction OF the branch road from La
grange to Cincinnati. The distance
from Louisville TO Cincinnati by this
route is one hundred and five miles,
and from Cincinnati to Nashville two
hundred and ninety miles. This dis.
tance will be run with passenger trains,
without changing cars, in fourteen
freight will go through from Cincinnati
to Nashville without breaking 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
merchants want to ship, and all
passengers who wish to go to Nashville,
but is able to carry ten times more than
" now does, and this without any
further investment on the part of the
citizens of Nashville.
Do our Nashville and Cincinnati
friends know that the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, with its extension
to Cincinnati now in progress of con-
struction, is the shortest and most
direct route that can be built between
Nashville and Cincinnati2
Draw a straight line between these
two points on the map and you will
find that the location of the Louisville
and Nashville railroad occupies that
line as far as Munfordsville, one hun
dred and twelve miles from Nashville.
At Bardstown Junction, one hundred
and fifty-three miles from Nashville,
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
has only diverged from it twelve miles;
at Louisville, twenty-nine miles; while
Paris, a station on the Kentucky Cen
tral railroad, by which route it is now
proposed to reach Nashville from Gin
cinnati in more direct way, is fifty
miles to the east of a straight line be-
tween Cincinnati and Nashville. Have
our Nashville friends, we repeat, con-
sidered this Do they wish 10 invest
some six million dollars to attain a
more circuitOus 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 part2 However, if the Nashville
and Cincinnati people have surplus
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 Railroad 1t will be q profit
able investment There are only eighty
miles Of road to build. Cincinnati will
then be connected with Nashville,
Memphis, New Orleans, and, after
the completion of the Decatur and
Montgomery road, with Montgomery
and Pensacola, upon the shortest posi-
bic routes-much shorter routes, in
peed, than by way of the proposed
Southern road to Chattanooga, or by a
route to Nashville via DanVille.
The distance between Cincinnati and
Decatur by way of the proposed South
ern road, which taps the Tennessee
and Georgia road at Philadelphia is
500 miles From Cincinnati to Decatur,
by way of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, there are 4I2 miles Cincin-
matt is therefore Is 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
Cincinnati The distance from Cincin-
natl to Memphis by way of the South
ern road 20 Philadelphia and Chatta-
nooga; and over the Memphis and
Charleston road, is 6SS miles, and, by
way of Louisville and Clarksyille, 4S2
miles; the difference in favor of the
Louisville route being 206 miles.
The distance from Cincinnati to New
Orleans by the Southern road is l,03l
miles, and by way of Louisville and
Clarksville 755 miles the difference in
favor of the Louisville route being 266
miles.
Thus it is seen, that, as far as Cincin-
natl is concerned, in reaching all points
to the southwest of Cincinnati, the ex-
isting railroad connections, after the
completion of the Louisville and Gin
matt Branch road, will be all that they
can desire. They cannot be improved.
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No HUMBUG. All communications strictly conn.,
dental DIR. DUDLEY STUART.
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