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Illinois Central Railroad: Louisiana Nickel Plate Railway: 1908 N/A Louisiana North and South Railroad: 1885 1890 Louisiana and North West Railroad: Louisiana and Pacific Railway: 1904 1926 N/A Louisiana Southern Railway: LSO SOU: 1897 1993 Alabama Great Southern Railroad: Louisiana Western Railroad: LW SP: 1878 1934 Texas and New Orleans Railroad
In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual ...
Pages in category "Louisiana railroads" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The East Louisiana Railroad (officially the East Louisiana Railroad Company), chartered in 1887, was a railroad in Louisiana and Mississippi, United States. It was formed to connect Pearl River, Louisiana, to Covington, Louisiana, and Lake Pontchartrain. [1] The company played a key role in the 1896 case of Plessy v.
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 main line was New Orleans to Bohemia, Louisiana, about 50 miles. [5] However, the line had total trackage of 65.1 miles by the early 1920s. [ 6 ] The line was leased to the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway , operated by the Gulf Coast Lines , on February 1, 1911; [ 5 ] but, the National Railway Labor Board ruled in the 1920s that the ...
The Louisiana and Northwest Railroad (reporting mark LNW) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Homer, Louisiana. LNW operates a 62.6-mile (100.7 km) line in Arkansas and Louisiana from McNeil, Arkansas (where it interchanges with Union Pacific Railroad ), to Gibsland, Louisiana (where it interchanges with Canadian Pacific Kansas City ).
The Louisiana Eastern Railroad (LE) was a proposed railroad that was to serve as an alternate line bypassing the congested rail lines in New Orleans, Louisiana.The railroad was envisioned by Paulsen Spence in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and while most US railroads had or began to replace their steam locomotives with diesel locomotives, the LE was to operate exclusively with steam ...