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The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge[1] railroad in the Southern United States, much of which is incorporated into the modern Norfolk Southern Railway. It played a strategic role in supplying the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

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Virginia and Tennessee Railroad

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The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was an historic 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge railroad in the Southern United States, much of which is incorporated into the...

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Norfolk and Western Railway

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and drove the 1870 merger of N&P, South Side Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad to form the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad (AM&O)...

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List of Norfolk Southern Railway predecessor railroads

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York River Railroad Shenandoah Valley Railroad South Side Railroad Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Norfolk Southern merger family tree, Trains link broken...

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List of Tennessee railroads

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following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Tennessee. BNSF Railway (BNSF) Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary Illinois Central Railroad (IC)...

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East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad

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The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company was incorporated under a special act of Tennessee on January 27, 1848. The company built 130.7 miles...

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Clinchfield Railroad

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(Spartanburg to Erwin, Tennessee) and Kingsport Subdivision (Erwin to Elkhorn City). At the end of 1925 the railroad operated 309 miles of road and 467 miles of...

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Wind gap

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of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Bedford for the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, later the Norfolk and Western Railway, a precursor of today's Norfolk...

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List of Virginia railroads

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following railroads operate(d) in the U.S. state of Virginia. Buckingham Branch Railroad (BB) Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) through subsidiary Delaware and Hudson...

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List of railroads of the Confederate States of America

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East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Eastern Texas Railroad Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad Etowah Railroad Florida...

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Battle of Droop Mountain

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Lewisburg and damaging the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. The pro-Confederate community of Lewisburg was captured, but the Confederate army escaped and returned...

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14th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment

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on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was called off after Averell reached Lewisburg. The Salem raid on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad began on...

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Battle of Cove Mountain

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Confederate-controlled Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. The railroad was used by the Confederacy to transport soldiers and supplies, and served important lead and salt...

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Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad

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LaGrange, Tennessee, native originally from Decatur, AL was also a principal owner in the Lagrange and Memphis Railroad which became the Memphis and Charleston...

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Beaver Dam Railroad

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The Beaver Dam Railroad was a short-line railroad that operated in the U.S. states of Virginia and Tennessee in the early 20th century between the towns...

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East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad

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The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad (reporting mark ET&WNC), affectionately called the "Tweetsie" as a verbal acronym of its initials...

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Tennessee Valley Railroad 610

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Tennessee Valley Railroad No. 610 is a preserved S160 Class 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type steam locomotive built by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation...

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Battle of Lewisburg

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the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. This railroad and the Virginia Central Railroad were important to the Confederacy for transporting soldiers and supplies...

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East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad

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Tennessee and Georgia Railroad Company was consolidated with East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company on November 26, 1869 to form East Tennessee...

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George Crook

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Charleston, West Virginia, and ordered him to attack the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, Richmond's primary link to Knoxville and the southwest, and to destroy...

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Battle of White Sulphur Springs

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to destroy sections of a railroad—either the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad or the Virginia Central Railroad. Both railroads were important to the Confederacy...

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