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The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [1] railroad in the Southern United States, much of which is incorporated into the modern Norfolk Southern Railway. It played a strategic role in supplying the Confederacy during the American Civil War .
Virginia Central Railroad: C&O: 1850 1868 Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad: Virginia Central Railway: VC 1926 1983 N/A Virginia and Kentucky Railroad: SOU: 1852 1876 Bristol Coal and Iron Narrow-Gauge Railroad: Virginia and Kentucky Railway: 1902 1916 Norton and Northern Railway: Virginia and Maryland Railroad: VAMD 1977 1981 Eastern Shore 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 and Virginia Railroad Company was incorporated under a special act of Tennessee on January 27, 1848. [ 1 ] 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.
The railroad of the Virginia and Southwestern Railway Company, herein called the Virginia and Southwestern, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in the States of Virginia and Tennessee. The owned mileage extends southwesterly from St. Charles, Va., to Mountain City, Tenn., and from Moccasin Gap, Va., to Bull's Gap, Tenn ...
Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: San Antonio, Fredericksburg and Northern Railway: 1913 1917 Fredericksburg and Northern Railway: San Antonio and Gulf Railroad: SP: 1897 1905 Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway: San Antonio and Gulf Shore Railway: SP: 1893 1896 San Antonio and Gulf Railroad: San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad ...
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad: Tennessee Valley Railroad: SOU: 1887 1888 East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway: Tennessee Western Railroad: L&N: 1912 1939 N/A TennRail Corporation: 1991 1993 Kansas City Southern Railway: Troy and Tiptonville Railroad: IC: 1887 1903 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Unicoi ...
At the outset of the war, the Confederacy possessed the third largest set of railroads of any nation in the world, with about 9,000 miles of railroad track. [1] Southern companies, towns, cities as well as state governments were heavy investors in railroad companies, which were typically designed as feeder lines linking farming centers to port ...