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Memorable Dates IN Clinchfield History
1/1/1907 General Offices moved From Bristol to the Carnegie building in Johnson City.
1/14/1909 Passenger service began between St. Paul, Va., and Speers Frry, Va.
1/1/1925 The Clinchfield Railroad Company became an entity after a lease agreement with Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville and Nashville
1/1/1983 The Clinchfield loses its identity to CSX from a merger.
News Article, Dated: January 17,1983-Johnson City, TN, Press Chronicle
By Rick Patterson (P-C Staff Writter)
Erwin-Mergers are nothing new in the nearly 100-year history of railroading in the mountains of Upper East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and the Blue Ridge. But now a merger will wipe out one of the region's dominate railroad names, the Clinchfield, itself born in a merger on January 1, 1925
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