Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway

The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway is a railroad company, chartered in 1881, that owns the 337-mile Cincinnati Southern Railway running from Cincinnati, Ohio, south to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and leases it to the Norfolk Southern Railway system. The lines physical assets were financed by the city of Cincinnati in the 1870s, making it the only such long-distance railway owned by a municipality in the United States, a status that lasted until Norfolk Southern purchased the property for 1.6 billion dollars in March 2024 following a November 2023 vote by Cincinnati residents. The route historically formed part of the Queen and Crescent Route linking Cincinnati to New Orleans.