Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad

The Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad was a short line in western Tennessee and Kentucky, incorporated in 1904 as the Dyersburg Northern Railroad. It opened in 1907 from a junction with an Illinois Central Railroad branch west of Dyersburg north to Tiptonville, Tennessee, and its name was changed in 1909. In 1911 the line was extended to Hickman, Kentucky. The plan was to continue on to the Metropolis Bridge over the Ohio River near Paducah, through Clinton and Moscow in Kentucky, and so create a low-level trunk line from Memphis, and the Illinois Central was still promoting the scheme in 1915. The stations on the route ran from Dyersburg through Finley, Lenox, Miston, Ridgely and Wynnburg to Tiptonville. The line became the Hickman Division of the Illinois Central Railroad, which sold the branch to the Tennken Railroad in 1983, and the track remains in service today.