L and N RR (Louisville and Nashville Railroad) Station at 300 Fulton Ave., formerly 214 Fulton Ave., aka Union Station. Built in 1902, as the popularity of passenger rail declined, this was vacated in 1975 and razed in 1985 when restoration plans failed. An inset picture shows the Dixie Flyer. The Dixie Flyer was a premier named passenger train that operated from 1892 to 1966 via the Dixie Route from Chicago and St. Louis via Evansville, Nashville, and Atlanta to Florida. ... After the NCandStL acquired the lease of the Western and Atlantic Railroad in 1890, it began promoting its passenger business from northern connections through Tennessee, and in early 1892 christened its existing trains 1 and 2 from Nashville to Atlanta as the Dixie Flyer, with through Pullman Palace sleeping cars from Nashville to Jacksonville; these at first were routed south of Atlanta via the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway (controlled by the Southern Railway), and later rerouted via the CofG and ACL. In 1899, the NCandStL made an agreement with the Illinois Central (IC) to handle passengers via the IC from Chicago and from St. Louis, via Fulton, Kentucky and Martin, Tennessee on the Dixie Flyer with limited stops and a fast schedule. In 1908, the Chicago traffic was rerouted via the CEandI from Chicago to Evansville, and the LandN from Evansville to Nashville; during World War I, the LandN also took over the traffic from St. Louis to Evansville. Soon after the war ended, the route south of Atlanta to Jacksonville was settled on the CofG to Macon and Albany, and from there via the ACL via Tifton and Waycross. In Jacksonville, through Pullmans were handed over to the FEC for Miami or to other ACL trains for Tampa and other west coast points. At the height of the Florida land boom in 1925, the popular Dixie Flyer was split into three sections: the all-Pullman Dixie Flyer from Chicago/St. Louis to Florida; the coaches and Atlanta and Augusta sleepers were carried on the second section, named the Dixie Express; mail and express went by the third section, the Dixie Mail. Following the collapse of the Florida boom and the effects of the Great Depression, services were cut back in the 1930s, with the Flyer handling both coaches and Pullmans. ... The Dixie Flyer was discontinued in 1966,[3] like many other passenger trains a victim of plummeting ridership in the face of airline and highway competition. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Flyer_(train))