The Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad was a 19th-century

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in western

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in the

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. It operated from 1873, when it purchased the Owensboro & Russellville, until 1877, when it was purchased by the Owensboro & Nashville. Its former rights-of-way currently form parts of the class-I

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railway. It connected with the

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and its successors the Louisville, Paducah and Southwestern Railroad and the Paducah and Elizabethtown Railroad at

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