Next Stop on Grandpa's Road

Terry Coats, is the past president of the NC&St.L Railway Preservation Society, he is an author and has lectured to civic and historical groups across the state of Tennessee. Terry was born in McKenzie, TN. a short distance from the tracks of the NC&St.L Ry. In his formative years, he lived a short distance from the NC&St.L depot in Dresden, Tennessee. He spent hour upon hour in the company of the station agent there and developed a great love of the railroad and its lore. Though he never worked for any railroad, he has had a life long love of railroading and especially the NC&St.L Terry is a 30-year veteran of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and a 1973 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University. In 2010, after five and one-half years of research and writing, Terry published, "Next Stop on Grandpa's Road, History and Architecture of Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway Depots and Terminals". Terry is currently researching materials in anticipation of writing a second book on the murder of an NC&St.L Ry. detective and the subsequent mob killing of the suspects