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The Memphis Suspension Railway, Mud Island Monorail, or Memphis Monorail is a suspended monorail that connected the city center of Memphis with the entertainment park on Mud Island. Celebrating its grand opening on July 3, 1982, [1] it was located beneath a footbridge over the Wolf River Lagoon connecting to the southern tip of Mud Island. In ...
Map of Lines of the Memphis Street Railway c 1907 MATA bus in Memphis, December 2004. The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) provides the area with scheduled city bus service and with paratransit service for persons with disabilities. Three express bus lines were added in 2008 to provide service into Downtown Memphis from outer suburbs.
Memphis Central Station, referred to as Grand Central Station prior to 1944, is a passenger terminal in Memphis, Tennessee.Located along Main Street and G.E. Patterson Boulevard in Downtown Memphis, it currently a service stop for Amtrak's City of New Orleans route, arriving in late evening northbound and in the morning southbound.
The resulting train consisted of a baggage-mail car, a coach-dinette-lounge, two 56-seat coaches, a dining-tavern car, and a coach-lounge-observation car. Several of the train's cars survive, including the coach-lounge-observation, which is part of the collection of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in the Chattanooga area.
It is the successor to MATA and the Memphis Medical District Collaborative (MMDC)'s Route 500 commuter bus. The current service also includes the Downtown Memphis Commission as a major supporter. Groove serves Downtown, the Medical District, New Chicago, and President's Island. Groove operates using software from Via Transportation. [72] [73] [74]
On Wednesday, $500K in federal funds were secured for planning a Memphis-Nashville-Chattanooga-Atlanta passenger line.
The Main Street Line is a line of the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system. It began operations in 1993, becoming the first streetcar line to operate in Memphis since 1947. [ 3 ] It runs for about 2 mi (3.2 km) along Main Street, with 14 stops in Downtown Memphis .
The mainline continues into Memphis, Tennessee where it reaches NS Harris Yard at MP 545.0A. On the west end of NS Harris Yard two mainlines run towards downtown and are identified as the East and West Mains. The West Main crosses the Union Pacific Memphis Subdivision at KC Junction. Both mains terminate at Tower 17 in downtown Memphis ...