Kentucky & Tennessee Short Lines In Color Equipment Alton Lanier

Alton Lanier

and higher horsepower EMD units

Delivering new FL9s

Major modifications

Each chapter covers a year in the timeline of the company through 1979

Kentucky & Tennessee Short Lines In Color Equipment Alton LanierGary R. Carlson Documents traditional railroads fewer than 100 miles in length serving KY & TN, focusing not only on little known steam powered small lines that operated until the 1950s or 1960s, but also other roads surviving into the diesel era. Declining local economies and increased costs led to the 1980s demise of many of these local conventional shortlines. Featuring Artemus Jellico, Brimstone, Cadiz, Carrollton, Chattanooga Traction, Corinth &