| 词条 | Southwestern Railroad (Tennessee) |
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The Southwestern Railroad started a {{Track gauge|5ft|lk=on}} gauge spur line from Sparta, Tennessee to McMinnville, Tennessee to connect with the McMinnville and Manchester Railroad. The Southwestern Railroad Company was chartered in 1851–52 to build a railroad from Danville, Kentucky to McMinnville in less than ten years. The company received several extensions to complete the road during and after the American Civil War.[1] Former Confederate general George Gibbs Dibrell served as president.[2] The company went bankrupt in 1871 having constructed only a small part of the road from McMinnville to Sparta. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (NC&StL) purchased the assets.[1] In 1884, NC&StL finished the {{convert|26|mi|km|adj=on}} segment to Sparta to reach the coal mines at Bon Air, Tennessee.[3]The track is operated today by the Caney Fork & Western Railroad (CFWR). References1. ^1 {{cite book| last = DeBow| first = James Dunwoody Brownson| title = Legal history of the Entire System of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. and Possessions | url = https://archive.org/details/legalhistoryofen00deboiala| accessdate = May 18, 2011| year = 1900| publisher = Press of Marshall & Bruce Co. or Marshall & Bruce Co., Law Publishers| location = Nashville, Tennessee | pages = 192–196| chapter = The Southwestern Railroad Company, (Now Forms Part of McMinnville Branch)}} 2. ^Tngenweb.org biography of Dibrell 3. ^{{cite news| title = Railway Work and Plans, New Lines Nearly Finished or Proposed| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/04/03/106147858.pdf| format = PDF| newspaper = The New York Times| date = April 3, 1884| accessdate = May 18, 2011}} External links
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