Editing Memphis, Tennessee (section)

==== Railroads ====
[[File:Memphis Arkansas Bridge Memphis TN 2012-07-22 016.jpg|thumb|Three bridges over the Mississippi]]
A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east–west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north–south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, [[St. Louis]], [[Indianapolis]], [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]], [[New Orleans]], [[Dallas]], [[Houston]], [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]], and [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]].

By the early 20th century, Memphis had two major passenger railroad stations, which made the city a regional hub for trains coming from the north, east, south and west. After passenger railroad service declined heavily through the middle of the 20th century, the [[Memphis Union Station]] was demolished in 1969. The [[Central Station (Memphis)|Memphis Central Station]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbu.edu/~mcondren/MRP/MemphisCentralStation/MemphisCentralStation.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926014426/http://www.cbu.edu/~mcondren/MRP/MemphisCentralStation/MemphisCentralStation.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 26, 2015 |title=Christian Brothers University |access-date=July 13, 2017}}</ref> was eventually renovated, and it still serves the city. The only inter-city passenger railroad service to Memphis is the daily ''[[City of New Orleans (train)|City of New Orleans]]'' train, operated by [[Amtrak]], which has one train northbound and one train southbound each day between Chicago and New Orleans.

===== Railroads, common freight carriers =====
* [[BNSF Railway]] (BNSF)
* [[Canadian National Railway]] (CN) through subsidiary [[Illinois Central Railroad]] (IC)
* [[CSX Transportation]] (CSXT)
* [[Canadian Pacific Kansas City]] (CPKC)
* [[Norfolk Southern Railway]] (NS), including subsidiaries [[Alabama Great Southern Railroad]] (AGS), [[Central of Georgia Railroad]] (CG), [[Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway]] (CNTP), [[Tennessee Railway]] (TENN), and [[Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway]] (TAG)
* [[R.J. Corman Railroad/Memphis Line]] (RJCM)
* [[Union Pacific Railroad]] (UP)

===== Railroads, passenger carriers =====
[[Amtrak]] (AMTK)