CSX 2708 - C&N Branch/Scottsville Branch - Nov. 2015
CSX 2708 - Red River Road - Gallatin, TN CSX 2708 gets ready to lead a local train down the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad's (L&N) Scottsville Branch Line. The train is seen here sitting at the Red River Road railroad crossing. Behind the train and out of site is the CSX Main Line Subdivision , which was also a L&N rail line. These days, according to an old CSX timetable from 2005, the branch line is known as the C&N Branch. CSX 2708 - Steam Plant Road - Gallatin, TN In the second photograph CSX 2708 is nearing the Steam Plant Road crossing on the branch line. Just behind the train and out of site, is a spur line that diverges from the C&N Branch and runs down to the TVA's Gallatin Steam Plant. Scottsville Branch Line The Scottsville Branch line was built in the 1880s, and it ran between Gallatin, Tennessee, and Scottsville, Kentucky. Initially, the line was started by the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad, but it was finished by th...