Louisvillians depended on The Old Reliable -- the Louisville & Nashville Railroad -- for more than a century. The railroad provided thousands of jobs to generations of men, along with a means of transportation that for many Louisvillians was their only way to travel out of town. During the 1937 Flood, Louisville depended further on the L&N. The railroad's passenger trains and boxcars transported refugees to higher ground in the East End and South End, with the trains often pu

We've all heard of Western Union but, in 1937, Postal Telegraph had more local offices serving Louisville. If you needed to send a telegram, you could find a Postal Telegraph office on Third, Fourth, and Fifth Streets, at the Seelbach and Brown Hotels, in the Heyburn and Kentucky Home Life Buildings, at the Bourbon Stock Yards, and at 112 East Main Street, pictured above with a bicycle ready for the next delivery. During the 1937 Flood, two hundred thousand telegrams were sen