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Clay Station

Abandoned NC&STL Railway
Route Between Memphis, Jackson & Bruceton

Clay Station - Milepost ONI 214.0


A destroyed passenger car was ruined by the vandalism. Photo by Clifton Wilmsmeyr on
April 14, 2005. "That car (and about seven others) were moved off Memphis
Transportation Museum's storage site at the Defense Depot about 1995/96. (Several
of the cars are parked in downtown Collierville now.) The car stored by CSX at Cordova
was a 54-seat coach, ex-Amtrak #5442, exx-RF&P #812. MTM didn't have a place to
put it, so it authorized CSX to sell the car for scrap several years ago. Rather than
haul the car off the line, the RR hired a scrapper to cut it up on site."
--David M. Johnston

"Clay shows at milepost 214 with Cordova at 213. The profile sheet shows 4 section houses at (213.2 south side of main) and the siding I called Clay starting at 213.0 and running on the south side of the main to about 214.4. It was a long siding." Terry L. Coats

See the public recorded deeds of legal description included the survey plat in Inst. No. E3-8531 and Inst. No. E3-4427, Agreement and Receipt in Inst. No. E8-4215, all in south of Clay Station as recorded in the Shelby County Register's Office, Tennessee.


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This view is looking west from Germantown Parkway. The crews cleaned up and
trimmed many small trees ready for the trackmen will come and remove the entire
track. It will become to the Cordova Branch Greenway aka Greater Memphis Greenline.


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This view is looking east toward Germantown Parkway. The crews cleaned up and
trimmed many small trees ready for the trackmen will come and remove the entire
track. It will become to the Cordova Branch Greenway aka Greater Memphis Greenline.


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This view is looking west from Germantown Parkway.


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Germantown Parkway looking east.
The main siding was cross this road toward the Cordova Station.


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1913 NC&STL track diagram (updated circa 1930's). See legend for the abbreviations and symbols.


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Topo map of Clay on July 1, 1998 by TerraServer-USA.

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