Aw man, I’m so sorry for you! It was a surprise for all of us Tennesseans as well! I first found those locomotives by surprise in 2018, then went back and saw them in 2022, and finally one last time in 2023. They were moved around the property very slightly. A shame they were scrapped, they were always a treat to visit.
Tennessee Central died in 1968. NERA was created in 1986 to buy the track to Monterey before SBD had a chance to pull all the track up from Stones River (where the Old Hickory branch met the main line) to Monterey. Consultants had told NERA that without the DuPont business on the Old Hickory branch that they wouldn't have a chance of survival so NERA got the Old Hickory branch thrown in. NERR was created to run and maintain the railroad.
@@ASILLYTRAINBOY2011 They are two separate entities, as is usually the case with these "don't pull the tracks up!" short lines. NERA is the government authority which consists of the 4 counties that the track runs through. It consists of various mayors, council members, county executives, and possibly some non-government support personnel. NERR is the railroad company itself. It owns or leases the locomotives, freight cars, provides engineers/conductors/MOW personnel and appropriate support staff and equipment. I'm thinking it also is tasked with maintaining the track. NERA has utilized 3 companies since the 1986 startup, Hohorst Marine, a spinoff run by former HM VP Bill Drunsic (not sure what it was called), and now R J Corman.
Let’s get the history straight as I’m seeing a lot of errors, including the comments. 1968 - Tenn. Central Railway bankrupts and is liquidated among 3 other companies. 1. Illinois Central takes Hopkinsville, KY to Nashville. IC quickly gives up, owing much to slow train speed killing service. The US Army takes over the Fort Campbell to Hopkinsville line to preserve service to that army base. The Cheatham County Rail Authority takes over from south of Ashland City to Nashville, but with few customers none of the operators can make a go of it. Nashville & Western (NWR), owned by the same company that operated the middle portion of TC beginning in 1986 (Nashville & Eastern) takes over, and is absorbed by R J Corman in 2019 concurrent with its acquisition of Nashville & Eastern. Everything between Fort Campbell and south of Ashland City is pulled up. 2. Louisville & Nashville gets Nashville to Crossville. While service to Lebanon is daily, east of Lebanon customers are dwindling away and in 1986 Seaboard System announces plans to abandon everything except the busy Old Hickory branch to Nashville. The Nashville & Eastern Railroad Authority (NERA) steps in and acquires everything that’s still there (everything from Monterey to Crossville had been pulled up by L&N to keep Southern from potentially taking the line to Nashville had SBD left). Nashville & Eastern Railroad (NERR), initially owned by Hohorst Marine (which operates WTNN, TKEN, & SCTR in Tennessee) but later owned by former Hohorst VP Bill Drunsic & his family, takes over the lines and operates them up to the RJ Corman acquisition. Drunsic is generally credited for saving the TC east of Nashville by attracting new customers and operating the Music City Star/WeGo through another company, and not giving up on the east end. 3. Southern/NS gets Crossville to Harriman/Emory Gap. They would pull up Crossville to Crab Orchard as no customers were left. Later on they would sell the rest of the line from Crab Orchard up to a small interchange yard near Rockwood to Franklin Limestone, then-operator of the limestone quarry at Crab Orchard. It reverts to Lhoist Materials when they acquire the quarry. It remains active to this day, as does the track from the interchange yard to Emory Gap & Harriman, where NS serves a few customers. As to the power on NERR/NWR, beginning with opening weekend in 1986 after SBD leaves the property - 1986 - 14 CF-7’s arrive on the property still in ATSF colors. Two get fresh paint for a dedication ceremony in Lebanon. Between the 14, 7 good engines are created and get an newer paint scheme (two get maroon paint to match a dinner train operation that runs for a few years). Some of the dinner train's cars go on to become the beginning of the Tenn. Central Railroad Museum’s excursion fleet. Later years - 2 or 3 ex-LS&I RSD-12 showed up, and do little more than prove that the track isn’t ready for 6-axle power. They landed at WTNN. Next are several B23-7/B30-7A/U23B/U30B’s that carry the load for several years until the current engines take over, still well before the RJC acquisition. Some of these are the ones mentioned in the video. One became probably the only RJ Corman engine to actually make a trip in primer gray, complete with RJC logo on the cab. RJC inherited appx. 10 B39-8/B40-8W’s acquired on Drunsic’s watch to replace the earlier engines and are later joined by 4 ex-CSX B20-8’s 5938-5941 (5941 was rebuilt to B40-8 standards). Only two engines got the “red dip” in 2019 but the rest of the fleet stayed in historical colors which were mostly still in their earlier paint - until 2024 when the entire fleet got the red dip. A few months ago RJC contributed two ex-NS SD70's (in their 50th anniversary paint) for a thrice-weekly sand train that runs from Gordonsville to Nashville. This video is an excellent reference source > th-cam.com/video/-XvsuX0h-M0/w-d-xo.html
something similar happened to me once. me and my friend were going to chase a local with a bluebonnet that had been stuck on it for a while. we go to the local only to find out it was taken off THE DAY BEFORE. im not kidding.
Yeah, we tried to catch the last NS train on the Murphy (NC) Branch before Blue Ridge Southern took over a few years ago. Caught a BLU train heading for Canton with wood chips but it stopped for a safety meeting near the Waffle House on 19. Is that also an acronym for "we broke down?"
Nashville and Eastern wasn’t the original railroad I know who it was and it is not Nashville and Eastern it’s actually Nashville Chattanooga and saint Louis railroad 576 is a 4-8-4 that’s track N&ERR is on it NC&STL no 576s home rails
While Tenn. Central did build the line west of Nashville (where those expired 4-axle locos sat), you have to go back to the Tennessee & Pacific Railroad which originally built the first railroad from Nashville to Lebanon. NC&StL acquired that track at a foreclosure auction. Tenn. Central had already built eastward from Lebanon and tried to buy that line to get into Nashville but NC&StL wouldn't sell it. Tenn. Central then built their line into Nashville that NERR now operates (on which 576 will run!) and that killed the NC&StL's line into Lebanon, most of it was gone by 1940 except a remnant in Lebanon that became a TC spur serving Bland Casket on S. Maple St. for a few more years as well as the track to the NC&StL passenger station. Strangely enough, the old NC&StL passenger station still stands in Lebanon, it became part of the Shenandoah Mills complex (corner of S. Cumberland & Gay St.). The only ex-NC&StL track 576 will ever see is a very short section (maybe 80') where the NC&StL's line met the TC near the old Lebanon HS, that passenger station was reached by backing up what became the TC line and taking a now-gone spur that ran parallel to S. Cumberland St. up to the back side of the station. Can't wait to see 576 strutting again!
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Aw man, I’m so sorry for you! It was a surprise for all of us Tennesseans as well! I first found those locomotives by surprise in 2018, then went back and saw them in 2022, and finally one last time in 2023. They were moved around the property very slightly. A shame they were scrapped, they were always a treat to visit.
Correction: the Tennessee Central was the original owner of the N&E
Ah thank you
Tennessee Central died in 1968. NERA was created in 1986 to buy the track to Monterey before SBD had a chance to pull all the track up from Stones River (where the Old Hickory branch met the main line) to Monterey. Consultants had told NERA that without the DuPont business on the Old Hickory branch that they wouldn't have a chance of survival so NERA got the Old Hickory branch thrown in. NERR was created to run and maintain the railroad.
@@waynejenkins8242 it's actually NERR
You said NERA Lol
@@ASILLYTRAINBOY2011 They are two separate entities, as is usually the case with these "don't pull the tracks up!" short lines. NERA is the government authority which consists of the 4 counties that the track runs through. It consists of various mayors, council members, county executives, and possibly some non-government support personnel. NERR is the railroad company itself. It owns or leases the locomotives, freight cars, provides engineers/conductors/MOW personnel and appropriate support staff and equipment. I'm thinking it also is tasked with maintaining the track. NERA has utilized 3 companies since the 1986 startup, Hohorst Marine, a spinoff run by former HM VP Bill Drunsic (not sure what it was called), and now R J Corman.
The rj corman has a nice wrap though :)
It dose this video is just for entertainment,it is up to the railroads what they do with there property!
@JustATeenageRailfan well yeah though!
Let’s get the history straight as I’m seeing a lot of errors, including the comments.
1968 - Tenn. Central Railway bankrupts and is liquidated among 3 other companies.
1. Illinois Central takes Hopkinsville, KY to Nashville. IC quickly gives up, owing much to slow train speed killing service. The US Army takes over the Fort Campbell to Hopkinsville line to preserve service to that army base. The Cheatham County Rail Authority takes over from south of Ashland City to Nashville, but with few customers none of the operators can make a go of it. Nashville & Western (NWR), owned by the same company that operated the middle portion of TC beginning in 1986 (Nashville & Eastern) takes over, and is absorbed by R J Corman in 2019 concurrent with its acquisition of Nashville & Eastern. Everything between Fort Campbell and south of Ashland City is pulled up.
2. Louisville & Nashville gets Nashville to Crossville. While service to Lebanon is daily, east of Lebanon customers are dwindling away and in 1986 Seaboard System announces plans to abandon everything except the busy Old Hickory branch to Nashville. The Nashville & Eastern Railroad Authority (NERA) steps in and acquires everything that’s still there (everything from Monterey to Crossville had been pulled up by L&N to keep Southern from potentially taking the line to Nashville had SBD left). Nashville & Eastern Railroad (NERR), initially owned by Hohorst Marine (which operates WTNN, TKEN, & SCTR in Tennessee) but later owned by former Hohorst VP Bill Drunsic & his family, takes over the lines and operates them up to the RJ Corman acquisition. Drunsic is generally credited for saving the TC east of Nashville by attracting new customers and operating the Music City Star/WeGo through another company, and not giving up on the east end.
3. Southern/NS gets Crossville to Harriman/Emory Gap. They would pull up Crossville to Crab Orchard as no customers were left. Later on they would sell the rest of the line from Crab Orchard up to a small interchange yard near Rockwood to Franklin Limestone, then-operator of the limestone quarry at Crab Orchard. It reverts to Lhoist Materials when they acquire the quarry. It remains active to this day, as does the track from the interchange yard to Emory Gap & Harriman, where NS serves a few customers.
As to the power on NERR/NWR, beginning with opening weekend in 1986 after SBD leaves the property -
1986 - 14 CF-7’s arrive on the property still in ATSF colors. Two get fresh paint for a dedication ceremony in Lebanon. Between the 14, 7 good engines are created and get an newer paint scheme (two get maroon paint to match a dinner train operation that runs for a few years). Some of the dinner train's cars go on to become the beginning of the Tenn. Central Railroad Museum’s excursion fleet.
Later years - 2 or 3 ex-LS&I RSD-12 showed up, and do little more than prove that the track isn’t ready for 6-axle power. They landed at WTNN.
Next are several B23-7/B30-7A/U23B/U30B’s that carry the load for several years until the current engines take over, still well before the RJC acquisition. Some of these are the ones mentioned in the video. One became probably the only RJ Corman engine to actually make a trip in primer gray, complete with RJC logo on the cab.
RJC inherited appx. 10 B39-8/B40-8W’s acquired on Drunsic’s watch to replace the earlier engines and are later joined by 4 ex-CSX B20-8’s 5938-5941 (5941 was rebuilt to B40-8 standards). Only two engines got the “red dip” in 2019 but the rest of the fleet stayed in historical colors which were mostly still in their earlier paint - until 2024 when the entire fleet got the red dip. A few months ago RJC contributed two ex-NS SD70's (in their 50th anniversary paint) for a thrice-weekly sand train that runs from Gordonsville to Nashville.
This video is an excellent reference source > th-cam.com/video/-XvsuX0h-M0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks man I’m planning on making a part 2 with the history ironed out.
something similar happened to me once. me and my friend were going to chase a local with a bluebonnet that had been stuck on it for a while. we go to the local only to find out it was taken off THE DAY BEFORE. im not kidding.
That sucks
@JustATeenageRailfan yeah it does
Yeah, we tried to catch the last NS train on the Murphy (NC) Branch before Blue Ridge Southern took over a few years ago. Caught a BLU train heading for Canton with wood chips but it stopped for a safety meeting near the Waffle House on 19. Is that also an acronym for "we broke down?"
are you going to see the holiday train this year
Yep tonight
How dare you make fun of the N&E!1!1!1!1!!1!1!1!!1!1!!1?1?!1!1! /j
😅
Gave up watching after three minutes watching video of everything except the video title.
I don’t understand but you do you?
@JustATeenageRailfanHe’s saying the video isn’t really related to the title
@ oh
NERR superiority
new subscriber
Thanks
Hey, I might agree with you on this
Thanks but again you’re can have your own opinion!
Nashville and Eastern wasn’t the original railroad I know who it was and it is not Nashville and Eastern it’s actually Nashville Chattanooga and saint Louis railroad 576 is a 4-8-4 that’s track N&ERR is on it NC&STL no 576s home rails
Ah thanks man
While Tenn. Central did build the line west of Nashville (where those expired 4-axle locos sat), you have to go back to the Tennessee & Pacific Railroad which originally built the first railroad from Nashville to Lebanon. NC&StL acquired that track at a foreclosure auction. Tenn. Central had already built eastward from Lebanon and tried to buy that line to get into Nashville but NC&StL wouldn't sell it. Tenn. Central then built their line into Nashville that NERR now operates (on which 576 will run!) and that killed the NC&StL's line into Lebanon, most of it was gone by 1940 except a remnant in Lebanon that became a TC spur serving Bland Casket on S. Maple St. for a few more years as well as the track to the NC&StL passenger station. Strangely enough, the old NC&StL passenger station still stands in Lebanon, it became part of the Shenandoah Mills complex (corner of S. Cumberland & Gay St.). The only ex-NC&StL track 576 will ever see is a very short section (maybe 80') where the NC&StL's line met the TC near the old Lebanon HS, that passenger station was reached by backing up what became the TC line and taking a now-gone spur that ran parallel to S. Cumberland St. up to the back side of the station. Can't wait to see 576 strutting again!