East Tennessee Railway

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railroad_name=East Tennessee Railway
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marks=ETRY
locale=upper east Tennessee
start_year=1866
end_year=present
hq_city=Johnson City, Tennessee

The East Tennessee Railway is a short line railroad linking Elizabethton, Tennessee to the CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads in Johnson City, Tennessee, 11 miles away. Since 1996, the railroad has been owned by Genesee and Wyoming, an international operator of short line railroads, as part of its Rail Link group. The railroad serves eight industries using two diesel locomotives; the largest customer is North American Rayon.

The current regular gauge railroad is a remnant of a larger, narrow gauge railroad, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad, chartered in 1866 to haul iron ore from Cranberry, North Carolina to Johnson City across the Appalachian Mountains. Through an acquisition and track extensions, the railroad grew to serve Boone, North Carolina and Saginaw, North Carolina. ET&WNC used dual gauge tracks between Johnson City and Elizabethton; eventually the railroad ceased all narrow gauge operations and only operated standard gauge service on this one section. Later, with a change in ownership this limited line was reorganized as the East Tennessee Railway.
* [http://www.gwrr.com/default.cfm?action=rail&section=3B5c Genesee & Wyoming Rail Link operations map]
* [http://cass.etsu.edu/ARCHIVES/afindaid/a91.html East Tennessee And Western North Carolina Transportation Company Records, 1868-1970, at East Tennessee State University]
* [http://www.tdot.state.tn.us/Chief_Engineer/assistant_engineer_Planning/publictrans/docs/shortline_railroad.pdf Tennessee Shortline Railroad Directory]
* [http://www.johnsonsdepot.com/crumley/cyhome.htm Cy Crumley ET&WNC Photo Collection]