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Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: L&A, LA KCS: 1902 1992 Kansas City Southern Railway: Louisiana Central Railroad: 1904 N/A Louisiana Central Railroad of Louisiana: MP: 1868 1870 New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad: Louisiana Central Stem Railway: MP: 1856 1868 Louisiana Central Railroad of Louisiana
As of August 20, 2013, Union Pacific presented DeQuincy Mayor Debra Smith a resolution awarding the town membership in the Train Town USA registry, celebrating 150 years, that thus far is only shared with Natchitoches, and Bunkie, in the state of Louisiana. The membership is reserved for towns and cities along the railroad with shared heritage.
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.
The worst wreck in the history of the L&A occurred on August 10, 1951, when a northbound L&A troop train collided head-on with the southbound Southern Belle just north of Lettsworth, Louisiana; Lettsworth is located approximately 55 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, on a segment of the Texas and Pacific Railway over which L&A trains had operating ...
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 ]
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Amtrak station in Hammond, Louisiana, refurbished with a passenger platform along the original path of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Part of the original route of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern, still operational in the Canadian National Railway line at this railroad crossing in Hammond, Louisiana. 1862 3-dollar note issued by New Orleans Jackson & Great Northern ...
An area engineer, planter and steamboat operator, Ralph Smith Smith, developed 16 miles (26 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge railroad line to connect Smith's Landing at Lecompte, Louisiana to the docks at Alexandria, Louisiana, enabling area settlers to have greater opportunity to get their crops to market.