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Contributed by Phil Gosney |
Frisco overpass over Bellevue Blvd. April 1969. Note the Frisco caboose. |
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Mike Condren photo |
| Frisco overpass over Bellevue Blvd. Nov. 1982. Note the Frisco Lines herald on the right. That herald was abandoned with the reorganization from receivership in 1947. |
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This picture appeared in Memphis Magazine, view of
the scanned
page. This overpass was replaced when the new one pictured below
allowed the Union Railway/Missouri Pacific Lines surburban tracks were
relocated to parallel the NC&StL tracks. The bottom picture shows
the transfer of the deed of the former right of way to Christian Brothers
College. |
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Scanned from Commercial Appeal |
Construction of the "new" overpass over East
Parkway was delayed due to shortage of steel. Note Christian Brothers
University in the background. |
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| The Commercial Appeal files 11-27-2007, Contributed by Brother Louis Althaus |
Overpass on track for christmasThe first train rolled along the new NC & St. L Railroad Overpass near Christian Brothers College on Nov. 27, 1952, marking completion of an important phase of the modernization project along East Parkway. The entire section from Central to Union is expected to be ready for use by Christmas. A name change would happen on August 30, 1957 when the NC&StL merged and became part of the Louisville & Nashville RR. Long before the merger the L&N had started buying NC&StL stock, beginning in 1880, to stop the railroad from expanding into L&N territory. 1957 was also the year that the L&N would retire the last of it's steam locomotives in favor of the easier to maintain diesel engines. The line would see heavy freight traffic but the use of passenger service, including the famous Dixie Flyer and Volunteer, would decline and later end in the mid 1960s. The 1970’s and early 1980s would see many local industries stop using the railroad. The L&N was merged into the Seaboard Coast Line, in 1972, which later became the Seaboard Systems RR on January 1, 1983. With the July 1, 1986 merger with the Chessie System RR, the Seaboard would become the present day CSX RR. |
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Contributed by Bill Strong |
Newspaper article showing an aerial view of Yale Yard |
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Contributed by Bill Strong |
Newspaper article showing the congestion at the old Airways bridge over Yale Yard. |
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