Nashville and Eastern Railroad

The Nashville and Eastern Railroad (reporting mark NERR) is a shortline railroad which administers 137 miles (220 km) of track between Nashville and Monterey, Tennessee, of which 130 miles (210 km) are currently operational. The company is based in Lebanon, Tennessee.

Nashville and Eastern Railroad

Overview
Headquarters	Lebanon, Tennessee
Reporting mark	NERR
Locale	Greater Nashville, Tennessee area
Dates of operation	1986–present
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Other
Website	www.rjcorman.com/companies/railroad-company/our-short-lines/nashville-eastern-line-nerr

Operations

The Bordeaux Railroad Bridge carries the Nashville & Western Railroad over the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee

The railroad currently extends to Monterey, where it serves a large sand mining operation. The railroad provides freight shipping services to more than 30 companies. It also runs occasional passenger excursion trains from Nashville to Cookeville or Watertown in cooperation with the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville.

The railroad is the home of the WeGo Star commuter rail service between Nashville and Lebanon. Service began on September 18, 2006. The service is operated by the Regional Transportation Authority, Nashville's public transportation agency.

Here is N&E (seen with RJC livery) 568, a former Santa Fe B40-8W. It no longer retains its BNSF H2 based livery, switched for the silver and red livery of the RJ Corman.

NERR has a subsidiary, the Nashville & Western Railroad Corp. (reporting mark NWR), that operates between Nashville and Ashland City on the former western end of the Tennessee Central.

History

The Nashville and Eastern was formed in the 1980s to reestablish freight service from Nashville to Lebanon and points east. The tracks that it operates were originally operated by the Tennessee Central Railway, which went out of business in 1968.

RJC 2620 and its sister unit, 2596, along with a B40-8W, possibly 568, and a EMD locomotive leading the weekly rock train from Monterey, Tennessee, to Nashville, Tennessee.

On November 5, 2018, R.J. Corman Railroad Group announced that it had finalized an agreement to acquire both NERR and NWR as well as Transit Solution Group, operator of the WeGo Star commuter trains. Pending regulatory approval, R. J. Corman was expected to take over operations in January 2019.

Rolling Stock

The Nashville & Eastern currently has 2-4 B40-8Ws, 2 SD70Ms indefinitely, and up to 3 B40-8s and 1 LMX B40-8 in storage.