Rhea Cole
Major
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2019
- Location
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Apparently, the Dixie Flyer on the L&N, Chicago, St. Louis, Evansville, Nashville. Dixie Flyer on the NC&StL, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami. It did not pass through Memphis at all. The trains arriving from Memphis on the NC&St.L did not have a name. This is the arrival & departure board that is preserved in the Union Station Hotel in Nashville. I highly encourage a visit, it is quite a place.
The named passenger trains that passed through Memphis are listed as, Choctaw Rocket, Cherokee, Hot Springs Special, Memphis Californian & Southwest Express. It would appear that the Memphis-Nashville connection was local "coaches only," not a named express mainline service.
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If you are unaware of "Hill & Swayze's Confederate States Rail-road & Steam-boat Guide" you are in for a treat. It has the daily schedule for all the myriad short lines that ran in the South as well as steamboat service during the war. The descriptions of the hotels & other accommodations are worth a look all by themselves. This guide notes that the N&CRR only only runs as far north as Murfreesboro, Nashville being on the other side of the lines. An example of the complexity of Southern RR's is the Etowah Line that extended 4 miles from Allatoona GA to the Western & Atlantic RR. Trains ran daily to make connections with W&ARR trains.
The named passenger trains that passed through Memphis are listed as, Choctaw Rocket, Cherokee, Hot Springs Special, Memphis Californian & Southwest Express. It would appear that the Memphis-Nashville connection was local "coaches only," not a named express mainline service.
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