This line was built in 1867 by the Knoxville and Charleston Railroad (chartered in Tennessee in 1852); the line was foreclosed due to financial difficulties in 1871, and sold to the Knoxville and Augusta Railroad in 1878. The Richmond Terminal Company, seeking a route to Knoxville, purchased the K&A in 1880, and folded it into their East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway subsidiary in 1890. However, this railroad company also struggled financially, and was sold in foreclosure in 1895 to the Southern Railway, who extended this line eastward to the Little River by 1900. After a series of mergers, the Norfolk Southern Railway abandoned these rails in 2012.
Maryville, Tennessee
Richmond Terminal Company