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U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...

Tennessee Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...

Common freight carriers

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

(BNSF) *

Canadian National Railway The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue a ...

(CN) through subsidiary

Illinois Central Railroad The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, is a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, ...

(IC) *

Canadian Pacific Kansas City Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, Trade name, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company. Through its primary operating railroad subsidiaries, Canadian Pacific Railw ...

(CPKC) * Caney Fork and Western Railroad (CFWR) *

Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia, US. The railroad operates of the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (a.k.a. the TAG route) from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Kensi ...

(CCKY) *

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the lead ...

(CSXT) * East Chattanooga Belt Railway (ECTB) * EACH Railroad (EACH) * East Tennessee Railway (ETRY) * Heritage Railroad Corporation (HR) * Knoxville and Holston River Railroad (KXHR) * KWT Railway (KWT) * Mississippi Central Railroad (MSCI) * Mississippi Tennessee Railroad (MTNR) * Nashville and Eastern Railroad (NERR) * Nashville and Western Railroad (NWR) *

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

(NS) including subsidiaries

Alabama Great Southern Railroad The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia (U.S.), Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS), running southwest from Chatt ...

(AGS), Central of Georgia Railroad (CG),

Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (abbreviated: CNO&TP; ) is a railroad that owns the Cincinnati Southern Railway from Cincinnati, Ohio, south to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and leases it to the Norfolk Southern Railway system. T ...

(CNTP), Tennessee Railway (TENN), and Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (TAG) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Memphis Line (RJCM) * R.J. Corman Railroad/Tennessee Terminal (RJCK) *

Sequatchie Valley Railroad The Sequatchie Valley Railroad was originally part of the Jasper Branch Railroad that was founded in 1860. The SQVR took over in the mid 1990s and now runs from Bridgeport, Alabama, to near Jasper, Tennessee. It is categorized as a "Local Rail ...

(SQVR) * South Central Tennessee Railroad (SCTR) * Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR) * Tennken Railroad (TKEN) * Tyner Terminal Railroad (TYNT) * Union City Terminal Railroad (UCTY) *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad is a Railroad classes, Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United Stat ...

(UP) * Walking Horse and Eastern Railroad (WHOE) *

West Tennessee Railroad The West Tennessee Railroad is a shortline railroad in the Southern U.S., connecting Corinth, Mississippi, to Fulton, Kentucky, via western Tennessee. The company began operating in 1984 on a portion of the former Mobile and Ohio Railroad (M&O ...

(WTNN)

Private freight carriers

* Franklin Industries * Lhoist North America * Southern Freight Logistics *

Tennessee Valley Authority The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small areas of Georgia, North Carolin ...

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

(AMTK) * Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association * WeGo Star * Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

Defunct railroads

;Private carriers * Babcock Lumber Company * Dayton Iron and Coal Company ;Electric * Bristol Traction Company * Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain Railway * Fountain Head Railroad *

Memphis Street Railway Memphis most commonly refers to: * Memphis, Egypt, a former capital of ancient Egypt * Memphis, Tennessee, a major American city Memphis may also refer to: Places United States * Memphis, Alabama * Memphis, Florida * Memphis, Indiana * Mem ...

* Nashville–Franklin Railway ;Not completed * Brownsville and Ohio Railroad * Holly Springs, Brownsville and Ohio Railroad * Memphis and Knoxville Railroad * Memphis and Raleigh Railroad

Notes

References

*Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in Tennessee
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