Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad
The Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad was incorporated in 1904 as the Dyersburg Northern Railroad. It opened from a junction with an Illinois Central Railroad branch line west of Dyersburg north to Tiptonville, Tennessee, in 1907. The name was changed in 1909, and in 1911 the line was extended to Hickman, Kentucky. The intention was to continue to the Metropolis Bridge over the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky, via Clinton, Kentucky, and Moscow, Kentucky, and so create a low-level trunk line from Memphis. The IC was still promoting the scheme in 1915.Poor's Manual of Railroads, Vol. 48 1915 p. 746
The line became the Hickman Division of the Illinois Central Railroad, which sold the branch to the Tennken Railroad in 1983. The track remains in service today.
Route
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- Dyersburg, Tennessee, junction with the Illinois Central
- Finley, Tennessee
- Lenox, Tennessee
- Miston, Tennessee
- Ridgely, Tennessee
- Wynnburg, Tennessee
- Tiptonville, Tennessee
References
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- {{cite book | author=Walker, Mike| title=SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Appalachia and Piedmont| location=Kent, United Kingdom | pages=34|publisher=Steam Powered Publishing| year=2004| isbn=1-874745-07-2}}
- {{cite book | author=Gross, Joe| title=Railroads of North America, Third Edition|edition=Third| location=Rochester, NY| pages=61|publisher=Railroad Research Publications| year=2000| isbn=1-884650-10-4}}
- {{cite web|title=Star Gazette 1907 |url=http://rootsweb.com/~tndyer/newspapers/gazette43.html |access-date=July 30, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118164653/http://www.rootsweb.com/~tndyer/newspapers/gazette43.html |archive-date=November 18, 2007 |url-status=dead }}
Category:Defunct Tennessee railroads
Category:Defunct Kentucky railroads
Category:Predecessors of the Illinois Central Railroad