The last shortline railroad in East Tennessee | The Tennessee Railroad company | A history of:

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[@KLDprojects1]

You made a very good video, thank you. I have been collecting information for the past 30 years and seem to be finding more around every corner

[@WinsteadSpeedShop]

I'll be modeling the Chattanooga rail system in N scale. I like to ride the train there.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Morgan County, Tn. There was a short line train up on Gobey Mountain. For logging and mining. I believe it was joined up to the main line in Lancing. From what I have read and been told by elders, that that Railway was owned by the Gobey mountain company. I dont know the actual name of the company though.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Tngenweb has a fair amount of info on it. Shut down in the 1950s or so.

[@vincentberkan605]

1963? I thought the Tennessee Railroad retired its last steam locomotive in 1957?

[@nathanbarger3449]

To bad after the trains were not allowed to run on the line anymore. That the locomotive and passenger cars were not sold off to another tourist railroad. At least the train would be in better shape and maybe still running.

[@Hozy780]

The alco rs3 the green one could be repaired even though it was vandalized it could still be possibly run again

[@Oldhistory]

It would take a good bit of resources to fully restore the Alco to running order again. Further, the train cars have been vandalized pretty heavily too. Perhaps in the future our friends at Save the Tennessee Railway can repair it. till then, its just a pipe dream.

[@Hozy780]

@@Oldhistory well I know it would be alot to restore it you would need to hook up the wires but if you can't do it to that send it to a train museum by trucking and then pay museum the repair it or hire some professional train repairs to fix it will you could only run on the track that's still there

[@Oldhistory]

@@Hozy780 That rail line is for the most part still intact all the way from Fork Mtn, to where it joins the mainline in Oneida. I think one of the bridges may be out though, but it still wouldnt take much to get an old switcher up there to take it down the mountain. For now, the guys responsible for the reversal of the abandonment decision are taking it one step at a time.

[@Hozy780]

Do you know if the ETR East Tennessee railroad preserved any steam locomotives

[@AppalachianRailroader_]

The E. T. & w. N. C. Is still operating under that moniker although owned by Genessee & Wyoming. There was a short line here (Greene county) dubbed the peavine railroad that brought logs from the mountains to Greeneville (late 1800’s to early 1900’s) my papaw logged for them and his brother was a brakeman. They had two Shay locomotives. Little history is left or known about it. There is a video on UA-cam by Rae Hill about it.