Some residents consider Davis Bottom to be a classic railroad town. During much of its history, the Davis Bottom valley was flanked by two railroad tracks running along its ridges. The Lexington and Danville railroad built tracks along the north ridge in the 1850s. This track became part of the Cincinnati Southern Railway in the 1870s, serving cargo trains at a freight depot off South Broadway. The tracks were removed after the freight depot was closed in the 1950s. A narrow pathway running along Combs Street now marks the route of the old L&D railroad tracks.