List of Tennessee railroads

The following railroads operate in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

Common freight carriers

*BNSF Railway (BNSF)
*Canadian National Railway (CN)
*Caney Fork and Western Railroad (CFWR)
*Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway (CCKY)
*CSX Transportation (CSXT)
*East Chattanooga Belt Railway (ECTB)
*East Tennessee Railway (ETRY)
*Heritage Railroad (HR)
*Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS)
*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)
*NC Railroad (NCRL)
*Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
*R.J. Corman Railroad/Memphis Line (RJCM)
*R.J. Corman Railroad/Tennessee Terminal (RJCK)
*Sequatchie Valley Railroad (SQVR)
*South Central Tennessee Railroad (SCTR)
*Tennessee Southern Railroad (TSRR)
*Tennken Railroad (TKEN)
*Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
*Walking Horse and Eastern Railroad (WHOE)
*West Tennessee Railroad (WTNN)
**Operates IRW Railway

Private freight carriers

*East Camden and Highland Railroad
*Franklin Industries

Passenger carriers

*Amtrak (AMTK)
*Tennessee Overhill Heritage Association

Defunct railroads

* Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad Later IC
* Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (RI or ROCK)
* Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway (CNTP)
* Dyersburg Northern Railroad (DNIL) Later IC
* East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC/"Tweetsie")
* Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad (GMO)
* Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N)
* Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway (NC&StL) (Later L&N)
**Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
***Hickman and Obion Railroad 1853-1855
* Norfolk and Western Railway (NW)
*Southern Freight Railroad (SFR)
* Southern Railway (SOU)
* St. Louis - San Francisco Railway (SLSF)
* Tennessee and Pacific Railroad (T&P)
* Tennessee Central Railway (TC)
* Western and Atlantic Railroad

References

* Association of American Railroads (2003), " [http://www.aar.org/PubCommon/Documents/AboutTheIndustry/RRState_TN.pdf Railroad Service in Tennessee] " (PDF). Retrieved May 11 2005.