List of Tennessee Railroads

Railroad Name Start Date End Date
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad 1868 1877
Arkansas and Memphis Railway Bridge and Terminal Company 1912 Unknown
Athens and Tellico Railway 1910 1911
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway 1896 1905
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad 1852 1894
Beaver Dam Railroad 1900 1918
Belt Railway of Chattanooga 1895 1946
Birmingham and Northwestern Railway 1910 1929
Bon Air Railway 1887 1887
Bristol, Elizabethtown and North Carolina Railway 1889 1895
Cambria Southern Railway 1904 1904
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway 1908 1990
Carolina, Cumberland Gap and Chicago Railway 1882 1895
Central Mississippi Railroad 1877 1878
Central Southern Railroad 1853 1866
Central of Georgia Railway 1895 1971
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad 1886 1893
Chattanooga Railway, Bridge and Terminal Company 1890 1892
Chattanooga Southern Railroad 1896 1911
Chattanooga Southern Railway 1887 1895
Chattanooga Station Company 1905 Unknown
Chattanooga Terminal Railway 1892 1993
Chattanooga Union Railway 1888 1895
Chattanooga, Harrison and Cleveland Railroad 1850 1852
Chattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown and Charleston Railroad 1852 1854
Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad 1887 1897
Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad 1897 1901
Chesapeake and Nashville Railway 1884 1892
Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad 1881 1896
Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad 1909 1963
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway 1880 1948
Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad 1878 1951
Cincinnati Southern Railway 1869 Unknown
Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad 1835 1837
Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap and Charleston Railroad 1853 1871
Cincinnati, Green River and Nashville Railroad 1882 1884
Cincinnati, Nashville, Southern Railway 1912 1934
Coal Creek and New River Railroad 1877 1889
Crandull and Shady Valley Railway 1909 1918
Cumberland Plateau Railroad 1901 1902
Cumberland Railway 1882 1944
Cumberland and Big Stone Gaps Railroad 1889 1900
Decatur, Chesapeake and New Orleans Railway 1887 1893
Duck River Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad 1872 1879
Dyersburg Northern Railroad 1904 1909
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad 1848 1869
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad 1848 1869
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad 1866 1983
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad 1869 1886
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway 1886 1894
Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad 1852 1872
Gallatin and Scottsville Railway 1906 1907
Greenback Railroad 1905 1907
Gulf and Chicago Railroad 1889 1903
Gulf and Chicago Railway 1903 1909
Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad 1915 1940
Harriman Coal and Iron Railroad 1891 1895
Harriman Railway and Construction Company 1890 1891
Harriman and Northeastern Railroad 1895 1970
Harriman, Knoxville and Eastern Railroad 1910 1913
Henderson and Nashville Railroad 1837 1867
Hickman and Obion Railroad 1853 1855
Hiwassee Railroad 1836 1848
Holston River Railway 1905 1908
Holston Valley Railway 1892 1915
Illinois Central Railroad 1851 1972
Indiana, Alabama and Texas Railroad 1881 1887
Iron Mountain Railroad of Memphis 1886 1966
Jackson and Southeastern Railroad 1905 1913
Jamestown Railroad 1912 1913
Johnson City and Carolina Railway 1887 1891
Johnson City, Bakersville and Southern Railway 1905 1909
Kansas City and Memphis Railway and Bridge Company 1887 1928
Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis Railroad 1888 1901
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad 1886 1928
Kingsport Southern Railway 1906 1906
Knoxville Belt Railroad 1887 1898
Knoxville Southern Railroad 1887 1890
Knoxville and Augusta Railroad 1878 1890
Knoxville and Bristol Railway 1898 1903
Knoxville and Charleston Railroad 1852 1873
Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad 1853 1871
Knoxville and Ohio Railroad 1871 1903
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railroad 1888 1895
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville Railway 1895 1898
Knoxville, La Follette and Jellico Railroad 1902 1904
Knoxville, Sevierville and Eastern Railway 1907 1921
La Grange and Memphis Railroad 1835 1852
Laurel Fork Railway 1910 1925
Laurel Railway 1905 1926
Lewisburg and Northern Railroad 1910 1915
Lexington and Knoxville Railroad 1852 1853
Little River Railroad 1901 1940
Livingston Terminal Company 1910 1911
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 1850 1983
Louisville and Nashville Terminal Company 1893 1962
Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad 1836 1843
Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railway 1884 1892
Marietta and North Georgia Railway 1887 1895
McMinnville and Manchester Railroad 1850 1875
Memphis Union Station Company 1909 1976
Memphis and Charleston Railroad 1846 1898
Memphis and Ohio Railroad 1853 1872
Memphis and Southeastern Railroad 1886 1886
Memphis and State Line Railroad 1903 1908
Memphis, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad 1885 1887
Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville Railroad 1852 1871
Memphis, Holly Springs and Mobile Railroad 1859 1869
Memphis, Holly Springs and Selma Railroad 1881 1881
Memphis, Holly Springs, Okolona and Selma Railroad 1867 1870
Memphis, Paducah and Northern Railroad 1878 1881
Memphis, Selma and Brunswick Railroad 1881 1885
Memphis 1899 1941
Mentor Southern Railway 1904 1904
Middle Tennessee Railroad 1907 1920
Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway 1893 1897
Middle and East Tennessee Central Railway 1883 1897
Middlesborough Belt Railroad 1890 1895
Middlesborough Railroad 1895 1896
Mississippi Central Railroad 1852 1967
Mississippi Central and Tennessee Railroad 1853 1859
Mississippi River Railway 1858 1872
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad 1852 1889
Missouri Pacific Railroad 1917 1997
Mobile and Ohio Railroad 1848 1940
Mobile, Clarksville and Evansville Railroad 1881 1885
Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad 1888 1909
Morgan and Fentress Railway 1914 1934
Morristown and Carolina Railroad 1881 1882
Morristown and Cumberland Railroad 1890 1898
Morristown, Cumberland Gap and Ohio Railroad 1880 1882
Nashville Terminal Company 1894 1937
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad 1845 1873
Nashville and Clarksville Railroad 1901 1902
Nashville and Decatur Railroad 1866 1990
Nashville and Florence Railroad 1879 1887
Nashville and Knoxville Railroad 1884 1902
Nashville and Memphis Railroad 1852 1853
Nashville and Northwestern Railroad 1850 1872
Nashville and Tellico Railroad 1887 1893
Nashville and Tuscaloosa Railroad 1877 1884
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway 1873 1957
Nashville, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 1872 1872
Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railway 1887 1900
Nashville, Tellico and Charleston Railway 1892 1899
New Orleans and Ohio Railroad 1852 1871
New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad 1852 1874
New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad 1866 1871
New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad 1909 1915
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad 1871 1881
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad 1874 1877
Oakdale and Cumberland Mountain Railroad 1879 1882
Ohio River and Charleston Railway 1894 1902
Oneida and Western Railroad 1913 1954
Ooltewah and Red Clay Railroad 1881 1882
Overton County Railroad 1904 1912
Paducah and Memphis Railroad 1872 1877
Paducah and Tennessee Railroad 1854 1889
Paducah and Tennessee Railway 1888 1889
Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama Railroad 1890 1895
Powells Valley Railroad 1887 1888
Powells Valley Railway 1886 1887
Ripley Railroad 1871 1872
Rock Island Memphis Terminal Railway 1913 1948
Rockwood and Tennessee River Railway 1867 1911
Rogersville and Jefferson Railroad 1852 1873
Savannah and Western Railroad 1885 1895
Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad 1868 1881
Sequatchie Valley Railroad 1868 1877
Ship Island, Ripley and Kentucky Railroad 1872 1889
South and Western Railroad 1905 1909
South and Western Railway 1901 1906
Southern Railway 1894 1990
Southwestern Railroad 1845 1899
St. Louis Southwestern Railway 1891 1997
St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad 1896 1916
St. Louis and South Eastern Railway 1872 1879
St. Louis 1916 1980
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway 1874 1917
Swan Creek Railway 1906 1921
Tellico Railroad 1887 1887
Tellico Railway 1898 1910
Tennessee Central Railroad 1883 1922
Tennessee Central Railway 1897 1902
Tennessee Midland Railway 1886 1895
Tennessee Northern Railway 1896 1903
Tennessee Railroad 1918 1973
Tennessee Railway 1904 1918
Tennessee Southern Railroad 1881 1884
Tennessee State Line Railroad 1882 1886
Tennessee Valley Railroad 1848 1888
Tennessee Western Railroad 1912 1939
Tennessee and Alabama Railroad 1852 1887
Tennessee and Carolina Southern Railway 1902 1935
Tennessee and Cumberland River Railroad 1897 1915
Tennessee and North Carolina Railroad 1900 1920
Tennessee and North Carolina Railway 1920 1951
Tennessee and Ohio Railroad 1884 1889
Tennessee and Pacific Railroad 1866 1877
Tennessee and Sequatchie Valley Railroad 1880 1883
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad 1911 1922
Tennessee, Kentucky and Northern Railroad 1912 1934
Troy and Tiptonville Railroad 1887 1903
Unicoi Railway 1909 1918
Union Railway 1883 1966
Virginia and Southwestern Railway 1899 Unknown
Walden's Ridge Railroad 1877 1888
Wauhatchie Extension Railway 1914 1917
West Nashville Railway 1887 1887
Western and Atlantic Railroad 1836 Unknown
Wills Valley Railroad 1852 1868
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad 1882 1946