The Humming Bird was a named train of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The train, inaugurated in 1946, originally ran from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New Orleans, Louisiana, via Louisville, Nashville,
Postcard of the Humming Bird circa 1940s-1950s
Condensed 1956 timetable documenting different northern origins and southern destinations of the Humming Bird, along with the train consist
Nashville's Union Station is a former railroad terminal designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and Richard Montfort that was constructed beginning in 1898 and officially opened over two years later in 19
The former Union Station, converted to a hotel, seen in 2008