Has anyone ever hear Nashville & Ashland City Line at all.
I live near Nashville TN and about 20 miles from Nashville you have Ashland City.
Thank-you
Danny
Found this photo:
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1005/nac0009.jpg
“0009, GP18, was built by Electro-Motive in January 1960, #25450, as Chicago Rock Island & Pacific 1333. It was sold to Chrome Crankshaft in 1980 and sold as N&AC 0009 in December 1981. It became MACNR 0009 and sold as Carolina Southern RR 100 in 1993.”
Found this at http://cumberlandrivertrail.org/history.htm
"The rail bed going from Nashville to Clarksville via Ashland City began as the Tennessee Central Railroad, a linkage of the Tennessee Midland, the Tennessee and Pacific, the Nashville and Knoxville and the Cincinnati Southern. Its charter was granted in 1893 and the leg to Clarksville began in 1901 when the city council of Nashville, referendums in Cheatham (to provide $50,000) and Montgomery (to provide $100,000) counties authorized the building of the line. The line to Clarksville from Nashville carried lumber, scrap paper, ore, plastic and brick. It was abandoned by Tennessee Central in 1960, then it was operated by Illinois Central Gulf, then Nashville and Ashland City, the Cheatham Country Rail Authority, then Walking Horse and Eastern Railroad, then McCormick, Ashland City and Nashville Railroad. In 1992, Central of Tennessee (operators: Don Cheatham and Beverly Ogle) bought the 19 miles from Nashville to Chapmansboro and sold the remaining segment to private parties, e.g., Montell Metals.
Currently owned by the Cheatham Rail Authority, the railroad is operated by Nashville & Western Railroad and carries freight (scrap metal, to-be-recycled glass, steel) from Nashville to the Industrial Park just south of Ashland City"
There might be some info in this book. Its not listed in the index, but some of
The Nashville and Ashland City uses part of the Tennessee Central route, connecting with the NS close to the NW edge of Centennial Park. After turning from NE, to north, to northwest, it crosses the Tennessee River about 5/8 mile downriver (SW) of the bridge used by TN 12. It more-or-less parallels TN 12 almost to Ashland City, at times just off the south edge of the road in places west of Briley Parkway.
The long trestle and truss bridge approaching Ashland City are still there, but would probably require extensive rebuilding to make them safe for use. In Ashland City proper the rails have been paved over, even though the grade crossing flashers were still in place last time I visited. They may have been removed since.
Farther west. part of the old TC right of way has been converted to a hiking/biking trail.
All of this can be seen easily on your favorite map/satellite photo program.
Chuck (Former Ashland City resident modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)