The Caney Fork and Western Railroad is a shortline railroad operating since 1983 from a connection with
CSX Transportation
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
at
Tullahoma to
McMinnville, Tennessee
McMinnville is the largest city in and the county seat of Warren County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 13,605 at the 2010 census. It was named for Governor Joseph McMinn.
Geography
McMinnville is located at (35.686708, -85.779309) ...
, and ends in
. Currently the railroad is a subsidiary of
Ironhorse Resources.
The railroad was originally built by the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. Source: Stone plaque inset into the south pier of the Warren truss bridge over the Caney Fork River at Rock Island, Tennessee, USA.
Principal commodities include lumber, steel, fertilizer, grain,
propane
Propane () is a three-carbon alkane with the molecular formula . It is a gas at standard temperature and pressure, but compressible to a transportable liquid. A by-product of natural gas processing and petroleum refining, it is commonly used a ...
,
carbon black
Carbon black (subtypes are acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal and coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid ...
, and tires generating approximately 1,350 annual carloads.
References
{{US Class III - Tennessee
Tennessee railroads
Railway companies established in 1983
American companies established in 1983