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September 27, 2007

Train Thursday - L&N print ad, 1930s

Magazine ad for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from the 1930s.

Long before there was Delta to take us to Atlanta in an hour or Cincinatti in an hour and a half, there was the L&N Railroad. "Two of the world's finest trains," the Pan-American and the Crescent Limited. The Pan-American ran from 1921 to 1971, linking New Orleans with Cincinatti. The Crescent ran from New Orleans to Montgomery on the L&N, then to Atlanta on the West Point Route, Atlanta to DC on Southern RR, then from DC to NYC via the Penn Central RR.

In addition to the Crescent, New Orleanians could get to Atlanta via The Southerner, operated by Southern RR. The Crescent Limited originated at the L&N passenger terminal, located at Canal and the River (roughly where One Canal Place is now located). The Southerner operated out of the Southern RR passenger Terminal on Canal and Basin Streets.

In 1970, the two trains to Atlanta were merged, and the train was re-named the Southern Crescent. The train became the Amtrak Crescent in 1972, when Southern turned their passenger operations over to the national railroad.

Posted by YatPundit at September 27, 2007 9:08 AM

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