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Pontchartrain Rail-Road was the first railway in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chartered in 1830, the railroad began carrying people and goods between the Mississippi River front and Lake Pontchartrain on 23 April 1831. It closed more than a hundred years later.
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
The Acadiana Railway Company (reporting mark AKDN) is a short line railroad based in Opelousas, Louisiana. It operates on the following trackage: Crowley–Eunice, 21.6 miles (34.8 km) by trackage rights on property of the Union Pacific Railroad, Eunice–Opelousas, 20.9 miles (33.6 km) Opelousas–Bunkie, Louisiana, 36.1 miles (58.1 km)
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.
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The Louisiana & Delta's only surviving ATSF CF7 locomotive, formerly LDRR 1500. The Louisiana and Delta Railroad (reporting mark LDRR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana. LDRR operates over 114 miles of branch line in southern Louisiana between Lafayette, Louisiana and Raceland, Louisiana, with most of the lines ...
The LM consisted of a 76.7-mile branch line from Packton, Louisiana, to Vidalia, Louisiana, from the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway. Passenger service was discontinued in 1953. On April 28, 1967, the Illinois Central Railroad absorbed the Louisiana Midland as part of its absorption of the Mississippi Central Railroad.
The New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad (NOO&GW) was chartered in 1852. Construction began at Algiers , across the Mississippi River from New Orleans , in late 1852. By 1857, the track had reached Brashear (now Morgan City ) on Berwick Bay , and this remained the end of the line for over 20 years. [ 1 ]