The final o.k. for funding has happened, $7.7 million(USD) has been awarded, reconstruction includes a new mountain bicycle trail alongside the railroad ROW.
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Hear is the Sunday 11/06/2005 page url(won’t work hear). http://www.herald-citizen.com/NF/omf.wnm/herald/news_story.html?[rkey=0037647+[cr=gdn
Hear is the TitleRail trail project gets financing
By JILL THOMAS
Herald-Citizen Staff
This line features grades of 2+%.
Several former LMX B39-8E locomotives have been purchased by the Nashville and Eastern Railway Authority to haul DOT grade Builders sand out of North Monterey, TN to Nashville for concrete production.
[8D] Here it is…the first passenger “local!”
Come one, come all!
Liz Engel Herald-Citizen Staff Wednesday, Jan 16, 2008 
Yesterday, several local officials boarded the area’s first passenger train to run from Cookeville to Monterey in almost 40 years. The ride gave members of the Trail Authority - the group overseeing the Rails with Trails project - a better viewpoint of where the multi-use path could go. From left in front, Cathy Andrews, project grant writer; Billy Copeland, Cookeville historical arts assistant; and local resident Don Smith were among the passengers.Herald-Citizen Photo/Ty Kernea PUTNAM COUNTY – For the first time in 40 years, a passenger train made its way yesterday from Cookeville to Monterey.
The train – boarded by members of the Rails with Trails Authority, members of the Cookeville and Monterey city governments and various other members of the community with ties to the trail – made its way up and down the mountain for the first time since 1968, drawing dozens of spectators, photographers and train buffs along the way.
It was also the first time members of the Trail Authority – the 10-member group overseeing the Rails with Trails project – the Rails with Trails project engineer Crouch Engineering and Nashville and Eastern Railroad officials, including President Bill Drunsic, were all together to go look over the project landscape.
“It was an unbelievable opportunity for us,” said Trail Authority member Keith Lilly. “It gave us a fantastic viewpoint of where the trail could go that you can’t see if you’re just driving down the road – portions none of us have never seen because we don’t have access.”
The group discussed the trail’s path over