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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.
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]
The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad operates a fleet of EMD and Motive Power Industries built Locomotives. They own EMD SW1200s, SW1000s, SW1500s, GP40-2s, GP16s, and a single GP40, GE C40-8s along with MPI MP1500Ds and MP2000Ds all on their active roster.
A new Texas and New Orleans Railroad company was chartered in 1874 and Terry was named president. The first train from Houston to Orange in over a decade ran in late 1876. It was during this time the railroad was converted from 5 ft 6 in ( 1,676 mm) to 4 ft in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. In 1878 the Texas and New Orleans, Charles Morgan's ...
The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern was a 206-mile (332 km) 5 ft ( 1,524 mm) gauge [1] railway originally commissioned by the State of Illinois, with both Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln being among its supporters in the 1851 Illinois Legislature. It connected Canton, Mississippi, with New Orleans and was completed just prior to the ...
On October 2, 1902 the company’s name was changed by charter amendment to the St. Louis, San Francisco, and New Orleans Railroad Co. And, while building its mainline in the 1902-1903 timeframe, the New Orleans also added a 9.2 mile spur from Kiersey Junction, near Kiersey, Oklahoma just west of Durant, running south to Texas Junction, a point ...
The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then briefly back to French rule before being acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812, the last major battle was the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
New Orleans Union Station was a railroad station in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was designed by Louis H. Sullivan for the Illinois Central Railroad and opened on June 1, 1892. It was located on South Rampart Street, in front of the current New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal . The station was used primarily by the Illinois Central Railroad as ...