Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station (Evansville, Indiana)

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.[2]:2

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station
Location300 Fulton Ave., Evansville, Indiana
Area17 acres (6.9 ha)
Built1902 (1902)
ArchitectMontfort, Richard
Architectural styleRomanesque, Richardsonian Romanesque
NRHP reference No.79000049[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 24, 1979
Removed from NRHPJune 14, 1985

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.[3] 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.[4]

Temporarily, immediately after the Ohio River flood of 1937, the trains serving the station were diverted to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois' deactivated depot.[5]

Named trains

In its heyday it served as a hub for Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and Louisville and Nashville trains, notably, the Dixie Flagler (Chicago-Miami), the Dixie Flyer (Chicago-Miami) and the Georgian (Chicago-Atlanta). Each of these trains had sections originating from St. Louis. Those sections would link at Evansville with their counterpart train sections from Chicago and would continue south. Furthermore, a St. Louis-Nashville section of the New Orleans-bound Humming Bird made a stop at the station. Additionally, the station was a mid-point for St. Louis-Louisville trains.[6]

Final years

Unnamed remnants of the Georgian last served the station in 1971.[7][8]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and delisted in 1985.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-09-01. Note: This includes Nancy J. Long (September 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-09-01., and Accompanying photographs
  3. Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, "C. & E. I. Depot, Evansville, Ind." https://digital.evpl.org/digital/collection/evapost/id/476/
  4. "Index of Railroad Stations". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 74 (1). June 1941.
  5. Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, "C. & E. I. Depot, Evansville, Ind." https://digital.evpl.org/digital/collection/evapost/id/476/
  6. "Louisville & Nashville, Condensed tables; Tables 7, 10". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 84 (7). December 1951.
  7. "Louisville and Nashville, Tables 1, 4, 5". Official Guide of the Railways. National Railway Publication Company. 101 (1). June 1968.
  8. "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


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