Supports logistics as a design variable. Exact routing, dates, and volumes require maps or company records.
Later bottling-house plates show conveyors delivering cases toward rail loading areas.
The T. W. Samuels exterior plate and caption place the distillery on a Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur and highway crossroads so grain and coal could enter and finished spirits could leave efficiently.
PDF screen 142
PDF screen 141
Photographs — T. W. Samuels transport siting
2026-09-29: main text/captions read across 274 screens; all pages visually surveyed and 22 enlarged details inspected. This record is bounded to its cited observation or source assertion, not independent historical/engineering corroboration. Whole-source full review remains open for embedded fine print. Photograph/caption coverage uses PDF screens 141–142, not printed pagination.
Verified visual evidence from the complete review of Carol Peachee's The Birth of Bourbon.
Evidence
The T. W. Samuels exterior plate and caption place the distillery on a Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur and highway crossroads so grain and coal could enter and finished spirits could leave efficiently.
Locator
- PDF: PDF sheet 142
- Section: Photographs — T. W. Samuels transport siting
- Evidence type: Image or Figure
Context
Later bottling-house plates show conveyors delivering cases toward rail loading areas.
Analytical use and caution
Supports logistics as a design variable. Exact routing, dates, and volumes require maps or company records.
Verification
Complete 274-sheet page-by-page textual and visual review completed 2026-08-26; image-caption pairing inspected in numbered contact sheets and locator checked against extracted text.