Owensboro and Russellville Railroad

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The Owensboro and Russellville Railroad was a 19th-century railway company in western Kentucky in the United States. It operated from 1867{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DswAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Owensboro+and+Russellville+Railroad%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA902 |title=Journal of the Regular Session of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky |year=1881 |pages=902 |language=en}} to 1873, when it was merged into the Evansville, Owensboro and Nashville Railroad.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GHYfAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Owensboro+and+Russellville+Railroad%22+1873&pg=PA806 |title=Interstate Commerce Commission Reports: Decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States. Valuation reports |date=March 1932 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |volume=39 |pages=807 |language=en}} Its former rights-of-way currently form parts of the class-I CSX Transportation railway.

It connected with the Elizabethtown and Paducah (subsequently part of the Illinois Central and now the Paducah and Louisville Railway) at Central City in Muhlenberg County.