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The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company was incorporated under special act of Tennessee on January 27 1848.The company built 130.7 miles (210.3 km) of 5 ft (1524 mm) gauge railroad line between Knoxville Tennessee and Bristol Tennessee between 1850 and 1856.East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company received a large amount of funds from sale of bonds of the Stae of Tennessee to aid in rehabilitation of the line after the American Civil War.

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