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The railroad became a key supply, food and troop movement route for the Confederate States Army, particularly from the capital of Richmond to the interior at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The V&T moved also key raw materials: copper from mines near Cleveland, Tennessee , lead from mines near Bristol , salt from Saltville, Virginia and saltpeter from ...
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) is a major north–south U.S. Route in the state of Massachusetts, traveling through Essex, Middlesex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Bristol counties. The portion of US 1 south of Boston is also known as the Boston–Providence Turnpike , Washington Street , or the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike, and portions north of Boston are known ...
The railroads in East Tennessee provided a major supply route between Virginia and the Deep South, and thus both Confederate and Union forces considered the region of vital importance. On November 8, 1861, East Tennessee Union loyalists destroyed five railroad bridges, forcing the Confederate government to invoke martial law in the region. [2]
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. [3]
1928-1932 and 1938-1940 Automobile Legal Association Green Book: large scale maps (not very detailed - only major routes) and major city inset maps; turn-by-turn directions can also be used to find old routings through cities; also contains rough route logs (i.e. cities passed through) for some of the longer routes in all eastern states; 1938 ...
1.21 Massachusetts. 1.22 Michigan. ... Chickamauga Train from Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum; ... (Lorain and West Virginia Railway) [3]
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 ...
Martha's Vineyard Railroad: 1874 1892 N/A Massachusetts Central Railroad: B&M: 1869 1883 Central Massachusetts Railroad: Medford Branch Railroad: B&M: 1845 1845 Boston and Maine Railroad Extension Company: Medway Branch Railroad: NH: 1849 1864 Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad: Middleborough Railroad: NH: 1845 1845 Fall River Railroad (1846)