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Pages in category "Passenger rail transportation in Tennessee" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The last passenger train to serve Nashville was the long-distance Floridian, discontinued in 1979. [2] Today, Nashville is the third largest metropolitan area in the United States lacking inter-city rail service, though it sees commuter rail in the form of the WeGo Star. Since 1975, Atlanta has been served only by the long-distance Crescent.
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 ...
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1852 1894 N/A Sold at foreclosure; no property in Tennessee Beaver Dam Railroad: 1900 1918 N/A Belt Railway of Chattanooga: SOU: 1895 1946 Alabama Great Southern Railroad: Birmingham and Northwestern Railway: GM&O: 1910 1929 Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad: Bon Air Railway: L&N: 1887 1887
Jacksonville, Florida–Tampa, Florida (with through cars to New York, Chicago, and many other cities) [1930] 1918; 1923–1941 Tar Heel: Pennsylvania, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: New York, New York and additional branch from Norfolk, Virginia–Wilmington, North Carolina [1932] 1927–1937 ...
After a number of schedule changes throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, the train was running every other day opposite the City of Miami, both trains then carrying sleeping cars. By 1955, Florida West Coast service was added, using cars added to the West Coast Champion trains in Jacksonville. [3]
People view the New Market train wreck Sept. 24, 1904, an accident that killed at least 64 people and injured more than 100 others. On that morning at 10:18 a.m., the Carolina Special out of ...
All trains except the Palmetto involve at least one night of travel, and so are outfitted with sleeping and dining cars. [3] Routes depart once daily in each direction, at most, so some stops are served only at night. [6] Delays are commonplace on long-distance trains, as the tracks are generally controlled by freight railroad companies. [7]