The Owensboro and Nashville Railroad was a 19th-century railway company in western Kentucky in the United States. It operated daily trains from its terminus in Owensboro to Louisville, Kentucky, and to points east and west.[1]
It operated from 1877, when it purchased the defunct Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad, until 1881, when it was purchased by the Owensboro and Nashville Railway. Its former rights-of-way currently form parts of the class-I CSX Transportation railway. It was later absorbed by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.[2]
It connected with the Paducah and Elizabethtown (subsequently part of the Illinois Central and now the Paducah and Louisville Railway) at Central City in Muhlenberg County.