Louisville & Nashville, Wilder Main - CSX, Louisville Division, LCL Subdivision
Formerly part of the Louisville & Nashville LCL Subdivision (Short Line)
Standard gauge line opened in 1869
Downtown terminal: Pan Handle Station (Pearl & Butler Streets)
Dismantled north of former C&O line in Newport, KY
The former L&N Wilder Main was originally part of the LCL "Short Line" main until the crossing of the line to Corbin at Latonia Junction was removed in the mid-1980's. This important, albeit short piece of railroad hosts a major online customer in Newport Steel and handles several daily coal trains operating between the former L&N to Corbin and the former C&O to Russell. The line used to cross the C&O at NX Cabin near Monmouth Street and continue north down the middle of Saratoga Street in Newport and across the Ohio River to junction with the Pennsylvania/Little Miami Railroad at the foot of Mt. Adams in Cincinnati. The tracks were removed in 1985, but the bridge remains and is now the pedestrian only Purple People Bridge.