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The 6-mile (10 km) long 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm) gauge [1] line connected the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans along the riverfront with the town of Milneburg on the Lakefront. When built, the majority of the distance of the route between neighborhoods at either end of the route was a mixture of farmland, woods, and swamp.
The 83 miles (134 km) NOO&GW was built to the "Texas gauge" of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), [2] the only such railroad in the New Orleans area to use that gauge; the line was converted to 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge in 1872. In 1869, steamship operator Charles Morgan bought the NOO&GW [3] and began operating it as owner.
New Orleans Belt Railroad: IC: 1878 1886 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: New Orleans Belt and Terminal Company: SOU: 1901 1903 New Orleans Terminal Company: New Orleans, Fort Jackson and Grand Isle Railroad: MP: 1888 1911 New Orleans Southern and Grand Isle Railway: New Orleans Great Northern Railroad: NOGN GM&O: 1905 1933 New ...
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railway (reporting mark LA) was a railroad that operated in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. The railroad's main line extended 332 miles, from Hope, Arkansas to Shreveport and New Orleans. Branch lines served Vidalia, Louisiana (opposite Natchez, Mississippi), and Dallas, Texas.
The railroad began operation in 1908 with the intention of giving the major railroads "uniform and impartial" access to the port. The railroad is managed by the Public Belt Railroad Commission, which also owns and maintains the Huey P. Long Bridge. NOPB covers over 160 kilometers (100 mi) of track with ten locomotives.
The New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad (originally Rail Road) was one of six short-line rail systems built to connect the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, with surrounding neighborhoods, in this case, four-and-a-half miles to the resort village of Carrollton. It was one of the first public transit trolley systems built in the urban United States.
The New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway Company (NOGC) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Belle Chasse, Louisiana.It is a subsidiary of the Rio Grande Pacific Company and operates two former Union Pacific Railroad (UP) branch lines located outside New Orleans, Louisiana.
The New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad was incorporated in 1868 in Louisiana (under the name of Mandeville and Sulphur Springs Railroad until 1870 [1]) and 1871 in Mississippi. [2] No track was built, however, and the company's land lay unused until 1881, when control of the company was acquired by the Alabama, New Orleans, Texas and Pacific ...