Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad

Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad
Overview
HeadquartersLexington, Kentucky
LocaleFayette, Clark, Montgomery, Bath, Rowan, Carter, and Boyd counties, Kentucky
Dates of operation1869–1892
PredecessorLexington and Big Sandy Railroad
SuccessorChesapeake and Ohio Railway (Lexington Subdivision)

The Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad (EL&BS) was a standard-gauge railroad in Kentucky that, in stages between 1871 and 1881, completed a through route from Lexington to Ashland. Much of the line became the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway’s Lexington Subdivision after the C&O leased and then purchased the route by 1892. The EL&BS was the first railroad to reach Rowan County, completed there in 1881.

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