Editing Atoka, Tennessee (section)

==Transportation routes==
===Railroad===
The [[Canadian National Railway]] is the current railroad company that owns the rails going through Atoka. This railroad runs from [[New Orleans, Louisiana]], U.S.A., to [[Chicago, Illinois]], U.S.A., and into [[Canada]]. The [[City of New Orleans (train)|City of New Orleans]], an [[Amtrak]] passenger [[train]], still makes one trip to [[Illinois]] and another trip back to New Orleans each day, through Atoka. The previous railway owner was [[Illinois Central Railroad]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Brief History of the Illinois Central |url=http://www.icrrhistorical.org/history.html |website=Illinois Central Historical Society |access-date=11 November 2019}}</ref> To visitors, the railroad in Atoka may seem inactive, but the rail system is busy with regular traffic in 2019.

===Highways===
[[U.S. Route 51]] passes through the western edge of the Town of Atoka, from [[Shelby County, Tennessee|Shelby County]] to the south and the town of [[Brighton, Tennessee|Brighton]] to the north. The [[Munford, Tennessee|City of Munford]] meets the Town of Atoka city limits to the west and in the center of [[U.S. Route 51|Highway 51]]. Highway 51 is the route south to Millington, the downtown area of Memphis. and north through Covington, Ripley, and Dyersburg.Randolph

[[Tennessee State Route 14]] or Highway 14 or Austin Peay Highway is west of Atoka. Highway 14 goes south into the Raleigh area where Methodist North is located. It runs north to help drivers get to Brownsville.

South of Millington, or about a twenty-minute drive, is [[Tennessee State Route 385]]. Many of the areas in Shelby County can be reached from 385.

=== Mississippi River ===

Although Atoka is only about 19 minutes away from the [[Mississippi River]] at [[Randolph, Tennessee|Randolph]], the closest bridge that allows a car to travel to Arkansas is almost 40 minutes away - the [[Hernando de Soto Bridge]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]]. The next closest bridge is located in [[Dyersburg, Tennessee|Dyersburg]].