Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station (Evansville, Indiana) explained

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station
Coordinates:37.9763°N -87.5819°W
Architect:Montfort, Richard
Architecture:Romanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
Added:August 24, 1979
Delisted:June 14, 1985
Refnum:79000049

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station, also known as L & N Station, was a historic train station located in downtown Evansville, Indiana. It was built in 1902 for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and was a Richardsonian Romanesque style rock-faced limestone building. It consisted of a three-story central block with two-story flanking wings, and a one-story baggage wing. It had projecting gabled pavilions and a slate hipped roof.[1]

The station was host to tenant railroads, in addition to the L&N. In 1935 the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad closed its depot and ran its trains to the L&N's station.[2] The Big Four (by this point, fully integrated into the New York Central Railroad) also ran its trains to the station. With the end of Illinois Central passenger trains into its Evansville station in 1941, the L&N station that year became the sole passenger train station in the city that year.[3]

Temporarily, immediately after the Ohio River flood of 1937, the trains serving the station were diverted to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois' deactivated depot.[2]

Named trains

In its heyday it served as a significant hub for Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and Louisville and Nashville trains, notably:

Each of these trains had sections originating from St. Louis. Those sections would link at Evansville with their counterpart train sections from Chicago's Dearborn Station and would continue south. Furthermore, a St. Louis-Nashville section of the New Orleans-bound Humming Bird made a stop at the station.[4] Additionally, the station was a mid-point for overnight and day trains on an east-west St. Louis-Evansville-Owensboro-Louisville (Union Station) trains.[5]

Final years

Unnamed remnants of the Georgian last served the station in 1971.[6] [7] It was demolished February 27, 1985[8]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and delisted in 1985.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) . Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology . Searchable database. 2016-09-01. Note: This includes Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station. 2016-09-01. Nancy J. Long . PDF. September 1978., and Accompanying photographs
  2. Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, "C. & E. I. Depot, Evansville, Ind." https://digital.evpl.org/digital/collection/evapost/id/476/
  3. Index of Railroad Stations . Official Guide of the Railways . National Railway Publication Company . 74 . 1 . June 1941.
  4. Louisville & Nashville, Condensed tables; Tables 7, 10 . Official Guide of the Railways . National Railway Publication Company . 84 . 7 . December 1951.
  5. Louisville & Nashville, Table 14 . Official Guide of the Railways . National Railway Publication Company . 78 . 12 . May 1946.
  6. Louisville and Nashville, Tables 1, 4, 5 . Official Guide of the Railways . National Railway Publication Company . 101 . 1 . June 1968.
  7. "Passenger Trains Operating on the Eve of Amtrak" Trains magazine http://ctr.trains.com/~/media/import/files/pdf/f/7/7/passenger_trains_operating_on_the_eve_of_amtrak.pdf
  8. News: L&N depot at end of line . . February 28, 1985 . 1 . . June 22, 2022.

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