Kentucky & Tennessee Short Lines In Color Equipment Item # 1647

Item # 1647

" With captions written by long-time LIRR railfan-historian Mike Boland

Hershey and Lancaster when these towns where served by their own trolley companies

Special flatcar loads

and other routes in the mountainous regions that produced this country’s coal

Kentucky & Tennessee Short Lines In Color Equipment Item # 1647Gary R. Carlson Documents traditional railroads fewer than 100 miles in length serving KY & TN, focusing not only on little known steam powered small lines that operated until the 1950s or 1960s, but also other roads surviving into the diesel era. Declining local economies and increased costs led to the 1980s demise of many of these local conventional shortlines. Featuring Artemus Jellico, Brimstone, Cadiz, Carrollton, Chattanooga Traction, Corinth &