The Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railway was a 19th-century railway company in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its first president was James Callahan. It was organized by Louisvillian businessmen in 1870, began construction and operation of the The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963
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in 1872, and failed in 1879 owing to the era's Long Depression. The line then gave up hope of connecting to Westport or beyond and reincorporated as the more modest Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Rail''road'', which simply continued service along the existing track. The railroad began at First and River roads in Louisville and ran along Fulton Street. It reached the to Goose Creek by 1874 and finished construction about above

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in 1877. The company charter was amended to permit consolidation with other lines (including a proposed "Westport, Carrollton and Covington Railroad" expansion) but the line's failure ended those plans.Castner, Charles. ''The Encyclopedia of Louisville''
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"Louisville, Harrods Creek, & Westport Railway". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 2001. Accessed 15 October 2013. The line was responsible for the settlement and name of the Louisville

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. It later made up part of the

Louisville and Nashville The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the ...

network and its former rights-of-way currently form parts of the class-I

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