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Ghost Railroads of Tennessee

Ghost Railroads of Tennessee
Author: Elmer Griffith Sulzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Professor Sulzer introduces us to both the mighty and the humble lines that once traversed this important railroad state. Here we meet Tennessee's own Nashville & Chattanooga (later called the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis) and the Tennessee Central. We also come across the Dummy Line, the Jerkwater, and the Tweetsie. We follow the story as 4,078 miles of rail in 1920 dwindles to 2,969 by 1975. But this is not a mere compilation of dry statistics on track closings and running schedules. It is a book full of the life and vigor of Tennessee's economic arteries. Although Tennessee's mining and logging resources were depleted and the rail lines abandoned, the isolated towns and villages find their voice in Professor Sulzer's storytelling.


Ghost Railroads of Kentucky

Ghost Railroads of Kentucky
Author: Elmer Griffith Sulzer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780253334848

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Ghost Railroads of Kentucky (first published in 1967) and its two sister volumes, Ghost Railroads of Indiana (1970) and Ghost Railroads of Tennessee (1975), provide the authoritative account of the abandoned lines in the railroad heartland east of the Mississippi. No mere compilation of dry statistics on track closings and running schedules (though they are here too!), this book is full of the life and vigor of Kentucky's economic arteries. Professor Sulzer, a consummate storyteller, recounts the human drama surrounding these ghost lines. Even poor Alex Richardson, shamefully lynched on the new railroad bridge over the Kentucky River at West Irvine, has his sad story told.


Ghost Railroads of Indiana

Ghost Railroads of Indiana
Author: Elmer Griffith Sulzer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1998
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780253334831

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Details the history of railroad closings and their impact on the railroad traffic running from the industrial North and East to the agricultural South and West.


Tennessee Central Railway

Tennessee Central Railway
Author: Barton Jennings
Publisher: Techscribes, Incorporated
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-06-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780984986682

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The Tennessee Central Railway existed in various forms for almost 100 years, with tracks across eastern and central Tennessee and north into Kentucky. Although parts of the route are abandoned, several sections live on under different operators. This book describes the route of the old Tennessee Central Railway in detail, plus gives information about the history of the railroad and current railroad operations along the historic route. A must-read for fans of railroading in Tennessee, it also provides information for train passengers who wonder, "Where are we and what once happened here?


Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, and Putnam Counties

Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton, and Putnam Counties
Author: Jason Duke
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004-01-15
Genre: Coal mines and mining
ISBN: 1563119323

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Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading & Logging in Cumberland, Fentress, Overton & Putnam is a fascinating look back at life in the early 1900s in four counties of the northern Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee. Featured inside is a wealth of old photographs--more than 200 in the book's 120 oversize glossy pages--maps, and descriptions. Emphasis is placed primarily on the coal camps such as Wilder in Fentress County, with great detail concerning the railroads that served the coal mining communities.


The Blue Ridge Stemwinder

The Blue Ridge Stemwinder
Author: John R. Waite
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570722721

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Telling the story of Tweetsie Railroad and the East Tennessee Railway, this book documents the history of the standard gauge ET & WNC after the narrow gauge was gone and is illustrated with many maps and photographs.


Disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee: A Picture of a Vanished Land and Its People

Disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee: A Picture of a Vanished Land and Its People
Author: Harry Moore & Fred Brown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467149438

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Stepping through time to past and present communities, settled in deep hollows and surrounded by ridges and mountains in Tennessee's Appalachia, is to confront a different and disappearing realm. Travel along Hogskin and Richland Valleys. Visit Frenches Mill and Dulaney General Store while passing cantilever barns, one-room school buildings and steepled churches. Listen as octogenarians Robert, Charles, Glenn and others explain life without electricity. Former Cades Cove residents Lois and Inez tell stories of living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park before it was a national park. Authors Fred Brown, retired journalist, and Harry Moore, retired geologist, explore Tennessee's Appalachian region, recalling its culture, land and people before it vanishes into the abyss of time.