| From the Nashville Weekly Union and American |
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| February 11, 1861 |
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Nashville & Northwestern Railroad
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The Memphis Appeal has been informed by Mr. E.
Culverhouse, the Superintendent, that a passenger and freight train is
running daily on forty miles of the Western Division of the
Northwestern Railroad, and that there is every prospect of making the
connection of the Memphis & Ohio Railroad at McKenzie's by the 1st
of March next, making the distance fifty-one miles from the
Mississippi river. The Appeal has also understood that the
Memphis & Clarksville {Memphis, Clarksville
& Louisville} Railroad Company will make the connection
with the Memphis & Ohio Railroad sometime in February, which
will give a direct route by rail from the Mississippi river at Hickman
to Nashville, Louisville, and Cincinnati, via Clarksville. On the
Eastern Division the trains run daily twenty-five miles out from
Nashville. The Company has a large force of men now employed on both
ends of the road track-laying, there being now ready for the iron --
road-bed completed and cross-ties delivered -- thirty-nine miles on
the Western Division and thirty-six miles on the Eastern Division,
leaving about thirty miles of grading unfinished on the whole length
of the road, which is all under contract. A large force is employed on
the whole distance of the thirty miles, with every prospect of its
completion by the first of September. The Company intend to push
forward the work of track-laying on both ends of the road to make
connection with the Eastern and Western Divisions as soon as the
grading has been completed on the last thirty miles.
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