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The railroad's impact on Knoxville's development was swift. The city's population more than doubled from just over 2,000 in 1850 to over 4,000 in 1860. [6] After the war, the city's wholesaling sector expanded rapidly. By the early 1870s, the Knoxville wholesaling firm, Cowan, McClung and Company, was Tennessee's most profitable company. [7]
The Tennessee Central Railway was founded in 1884 as the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad by Alexander S. Crawford. It was an attempt to open up a rail route from the coal and minerals of East Tennessee to the markets of the midstate, a service which many businessmen felt was not being adequately provided by the existing railroad companies.
The buildings were listed for their architecture and their role in Knoxville's late-19th and early-20th century wholesaling industry. [1] The district's original 1973 listing included the warehouses on the north side of West Jackson Avenue (i.e., 103, 121-123, 125-127, and 129-131) and Sullivan's Saloon (100 East Jackson).
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 museum does an annual trip and railfan weekend. The excursion train typically ran on the first and third weekend of each month with the exception of special trains. A freight railroad still uses the tracks with the Scenic sometimes using some of the engines. The museum is currently restoring a Southern EMD E8 #6913 among other projects. The ...
C. Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway; Central of Georgia Railway; Central of Tennessee Railway and Navigation Company; Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad
Knoxville Locomotive Works (reporting mark KLWX) is an affiliate of Gulf & Ohio Railways headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.Since its establishment in 1998, Knoxville Locomotive Works (KLW) has repowered, refurbished, remanufactured, and/or upgraded over 400 locomotives.
The Carolina, Knoxville, and Western Railway was a railroad in the southeastern United States, established in 1887 to build a line connecting Augusta, Georgia, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Despite ambitious plans, only about 14 miles of track were laid before financial difficulties led to the suspension of construction.