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Etowah was founded in 1906, primarily as a location for a depot on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) line as part of a more direct route between Atlanta and Cincinnati. The etymology of the town name is unclear, but local folklore states that a train crew brought a sign reading "Etowah" from the Etowah River , and the name stuck.
The KD Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Kentucky and Tennessee. The line runs from Corbin, Kentucky, to Etowah, Tennessee, for a total of 161.4 miles (259.7 km). At its north end it continues south from the Corbin Terminal Subdivision and at its south end it continues south as the Etowah ...
The Etowah Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Georgia. The line runs between Etowah, Tennessee , and Cartersville, Georgia , for a total of 89.3 miles (143.7 km).
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
The entire main line from Marietta to Etowah is in use by three companies today: the Georgia Northeastern Railroad for freight from Elizabeth Yard to Ellijay, the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway (owned by GNRR) from Blue Ridge to McCaysville since 1998, and the Tennessee Valley Railroad from Copperhill to Delano since
1917 map of the railroad. The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad was created through a reorganization of the Chattanooga Southern Railway in 1911. A few years later, in 1922, the line's name was changed to the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (reporting mark TAG) and was also known as the TAG Route.
The Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad (reporting mark ATN) was a short line railroad which operated in the state of Alabama. The company grew from an acquisition of an existing logging railroad in 1897, and merged with the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (the "Frisco") in 1971. [1] The company was also known as the "Port of Mobile Route."
State Route 310 (SR 310), also known as Mecca Pike, is a short east–west state highway in McMinn County, Tennessee. It connects Etowah , via SR 39 , to Tellico Plains . Route description