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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 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 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 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)
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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 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.