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New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad: Louisiana Central Stem Railway: MP: 1856 1868 Louisiana Central Railroad of Louisiana: Louisiana East and West Railway: MP: 1904 1907 Texas and Pacific Railway: Louisiana Midland Railway: LOAM 1974 1981 N/A Louisiana Midland Railway: IC: 1945 1967 Illinois Central Railroad: Louisiana Nickel Plate ...
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 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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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 ...
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 Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge is a rolling lift trunnion bridge that carries a single-track of Norfolk Southern rail line over Lake Pontchartrain between Slidell and New Orleans, Louisiana, parallel to the Maestri Bridge [2] At 5.8 miles (9.3 km) long, it is the longest railroad bridge in the United States and the longest rail bridge over water in the world.