McMinnville and Manchester Railroad

McMinnville and Manchester Railroad
Overview
LocaleTennessee
Dates of operation1856–1877
SuccessorNashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Seaboard System Railroad Company
Technical
Track gauge5 ft (1,524 mm)

The McMinnville and Manchester Railroad Company was chartered by an Act of the legislature of the State of Tennessee on February 4, 1850.[1] Under this charter, the railroad company built a line of railroad from McMinnville, Tennessee. southwesterly through Manchester, Tennessee. to Tullahoma, Tennessee, where it connected with the railroad line of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company.[2]

The McMinnville and Manchester company opened 34.2 miles (55.0 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge railroad between McMinnville and Tullahoma in November 1856.[1] In the absence of any contract with the original owner that differed with the franchises granted by law, the railroad was entitled to a right-of-way extended 100 feet (30.5 m) on either side of the center of the railroad line.[3]

  1. ^ a b Poor, Henry V. Poor's Manual of Railroads of the United States, 1885. New York: H.V. & H.W. Poor, 1885. OCLC 504727008. p. 489.
  2. ^ DeBow, James Dunwoody Brownson. Legal history of the Entire System of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry. and Possessions. Nashville, TN: Press of Marshall & Bruce Co., 1900. OCLC 6480550. Retrieved June 22, 2015. p. 170.
  3. ^ Debow, 1900, p. 169.