The Tennessee Southern Railroad began operations in 1988 and currently operates in middle

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 ...

and northwestern

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. The main line consists of and the total track has .Tennessee Southern Railroad
. Patriot Rail Corporation website. Accessed 2010-12-10. TSRR is owned by

Patriot Rail Corporation Patriot Rail Company LLC (Patriot Rail) is a holding company for a number of short-line railroad, shortline railroads across the United States. In June 2012, Patriot Rail was acquired by SteelRiver Infrastructure Partners (SteelRiver). On August ...

. Commodities the TSRR handles include scrap iron, coal, coke, woodpulp, pulpboard, sand, chemicals, steel, aluminum, and fertilizer raw materials. In 2007, in response to increasing traffic, the TSRR purchased eight

diesel locomotive A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover (locomotive), power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed, differing mainly in the means by which mechanical power is con ...

s with greater power and fuel efficiency than its existing fleet of ten.Bill Lewis
"Nashville's railroads grow as fuel prices rise: Short lines invest in more tracks, new locomotives"
''The Tennessean'', 15 July 2007. (Defunct site)

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* Alabama railroads Tennessee railroads Spin-offs of CSX Transportation Patriot Rail Company {{US-rail-company-stub