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The East Tennessee Railway, L.P. (reporting mark ETRY) is a short line railroad connecting CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway in Johnson City, Tennessee.Since 2005, the railroad has been owned by Genesee and Wyoming, an international operator of short line railroads, as part of its Rail Link group.
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway: Middle and East Tennessee Central Railway: L&N: 1883 1897 Gallatin and Scottsville Railway: Middle Tennessee Railroad: 1907 1920 N/A Middle Tennessee and Alabama Railway: L&N: 1893 1897 Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway: Middlesborough Railroad: L&N: 1895 1896 Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad (ETV&G) was a rail transport system that operated in the southeastern United States during the late 19th century. Created with the consolidation of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad in 1869, the ETV&G played an important role in connecting East Tennessee and other isolated parts of Southern ...
The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (reporting mark ET&WNC), affectionately called the "Tweetsie" as a verbal acronym of its initials (ET&WNC) but also in reference to the sound of its steam whistles, was a primarily 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad established in 1866 for the purpose of serving the mines at Cranberry, North Carolina.
The East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad Company was incorporated under special act of Tennessee on February 19, 1836 as the Hiwassee Rail Road Company. [1]The company built 81.23 miles (130.73 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge railroad line between Dalton, Georgia and Loudon, Tennessee in 1852, 28.7 miles (46.2 km) of railroad line between Loudon, Tennessee and Knoxville, Tennessee in 1855 and ...
The company built 130.7 miles (210.3 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge railroad line between Knoxville, Tennessee and Bristol, Tennessee between 1850 and 1856. [3] East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company received a large amount of funds from the sale of bonds of the State of Tennessee to aid in the rehabilitation of the line after the ...