Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad

The Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad was formed in July 1889 by consolidating the older Paducah and Tennessee Railroad Company of Kentucky with two newly organized companies of the same name in Tennessee. Construction began in 1890 at Paducah, Kentucky, and the finished line ran 118.61 miles to Lexington, Tennessee, carrying freight and passengers with a fleet of 11 locomotives and 283 railroad cars under president T. J. Moss and a board based mostly in St. Louis. The company fell into receivership in November 1893, and after foreclosure it was sold, along with the affiliated Tennessee Midland Railroad, on December 14, 1895, to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which leased the combined line to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway for 99 years. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/