The Memphis Subdivision is a

railroad Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

line owned and operated by

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. ...

in the U.S. state of

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

. The line runs from east of Bruceton west and southwest to Memphis, where it terminates at CSX Leewood Yard, CSX Timetables: Memphis Subdivision
/ref> mostly along a former

Louisville and Nashville Railroad The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the ...

line from Nashville towards

Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...

. (The part east of McKenzie was the main line of the

Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a railway company that operated in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. It began as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, chartered in Nashville on December 11, 1845, ...

.) At its east end, at Lipe, the

Bruceton Subdivision The Bruceton Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of Tennessee. The line runs from Nashville, Tennessee, to Camden, Tennessee, for a total of . At its east end the line continues west from the Nashville Term ...

continues east towards

Nashville Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the ...

. At its west end, at Leewood, the

Memphis Terminal Subdivision The Memphis Terminal Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of Tennessee. The line is located in Memphis, Tennessee, for a total of . The line runs from N. Graham Street, at the west end of the Memphis Subdi ...

continues through Memphis.

References

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