Lexington and Ohio Railroad was the first railroad in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky .[ 1] Allegheny Mountains .[ 2]
Its charter proposed the establishment of a link between Lexington in the center of the Bluegrass Region to the river port of Louisville at the Falls of the Ohio by way of Frankfort , the state capital.
The line was never completed and the Panic of 1837 led to its complete collapse.[ 1] Commonwealth seized the railroad in payment of its debts in 1840.
The rights-of-way of the former L&O were later purchased and utilized by the Louisville & Frankfort and Lexington & Frankfort railroads, which subsequently merged into the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad .
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