Any company authorized to operate a railroad by steam is empowered to adopt electricity as its motive power, whether such railroad be wholly or only partly in the state.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 65-6-105
Adoption of electricity for motive power
Acts 1903, ch. 59, § 1; Shan., § 2425a1; Code 1932, § 4010; T.C.A
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