Route Description
The highway passes through Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Most of the original eastern and western portions of the route through roughly follows the path of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, a railroad that predated the American Civil War and now operated by Norfolk Southern as their Memphis-Chattanooga mainline. Alternate US 72 follows the Memphis and Charleston route through North Alabama.
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