Abandoned NC&STL Railway
Route Between Memphis, Jackson & Bruceton
Abandonment & Discontinuance Exemptions--Between Memphis and Cordova
Envirnomental Protection Agency: Federal Register (9-13-2001): CSX Transportation, Inc.--Abandonment Exemption--Between Memphis and Cordova, in Shelby County, TN
Surface Transportation Board Decision Document (12-12-2001): CSX Transportation, Inc.--Abandonment Exemption--Between Memphis and Cordova, in Shelby County, TN
Envirnomental Protection Agency: Federal Register (4-18-2002): CSX Transportation, Inc.--Discontinuance Exemption--Between East of Memphis and Cordova in Shelby County, TN
Envirnomental Protection Agency: Federal Register (7-30-2002): CSX Transportation, Inc.--Discontinuance--at Memphis, in Shelby County, TN
Thompson Hine, LLP (7-7-2008): CSX Transportation Inc., Adverse Abandonment in Shelby County, Tennessee (.PDF file required) 
NC&STL (now CSXT) Railway To The Future--Between Memphis and Cordova
Information About Shelby Farms Road Plan Alternative F (9-24-2001) (read no. 9)
Electric Railroaders’ Association, Inc.: "CSX Line Available, But No Plans Yet" (5-8-2004)
UrbanPlanet.org Forums: "CSX Rail line DONATED TO Memphis for LRT!" (5-22-2004)
Memphis Disc Golf Forum: "Shelby Farms Bike Path Along Walnut Grove (1-21-2005)
The Greater Memphis Greenline: Proposed 13-mile multi-use urban park/trail on a former CSX railroad right-of-way (8-2005)
I'll Meet You At the Station (7-2006)
CSX Potential Light Rail Transit Supportive Development (January 2007) (a 5.7 MB .PDF file will take about several minutes to download)
Site Corridor Concepts, Visions for Cordova (January 2007) (a 13 MB .PDF file will take about several minutes to download)
CSX Potential Light Rail Transit Supportive Development: Corridor Concepts And Site Designs (January 2007) (a 19 MB .PDF file will take about several minutes to download)
Commercial Appeal: community Help save the train line (November 26, 2007)
Helpful Links
Abandoned Railroads of the US
Abandoned Rails
Cordova Branch of the CSXT
Dennis Martin's Abandoned NC&STL Rwy. website between Rose Hill to Huron, TN.
Eric's RR Picture Archives.net
L&N Railroad
Legal history of the entire system of NC&STL Rwy. and possessions (a 188 MB .PDF file will take about several minutes to download)
Memphis Historical Railroad Pages
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway: History and Steam Locomotives By Richard E. Prince
RailPictures.Net - The BEST railroad photos on the 'net!
Railroad Picture Archives.NET
Railroad Station Historical Society, Inc.
Tom Parker's Cordova Branch 2008 tracks & ties removal websites #1 and #2
Member of
Abandoned Railroads of the US
Louisville & Nashville and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroads
Memphis Area Railfan
NC&STL Preservation Society
NC&STL steam locomotive number 576
Eric's Heavy Truck Haulings & Schnabel Railroad Cars
This webpage designed by Eric C. Fleet. If you have materials that you would like to contribute, contact me at ericfleet@ncstl.com.
