The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County, Tennessee

Lewis D. Gasteiger, vice president of the new Pittsburgh Lumber Company in Carter County, Tennessee conspired with William Flinn, president of Booth & Flynn, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania construction firm to build a spur connection the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina railway. The ensuing railway connected Elizabethon to Laban, Tennessee and enabled unfinished lumber to the Southern Railway. The Laurel Fork Railroad was incorporated in April of 1910 and abandoned in 1925.

• • Author: Doug McGuinn
• • Publisher: Lulu.com
• • Publication Date: Mar 28, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 44 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1329994655
• • ISBN-13: 9781329994652