Map showing the route of the Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railroad and its connecting lines.Scale ca. 1:3,800,000. LC Railroad maps, 452 Description derived from published bibliography. Map of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, state b...
Yellow fever was sharply curtailed after the Civil War and was finallyeradicatedby 1906. By the early 20th century the river steamboats, unable to compete with railroads, disappeared; the Port of New Orleans, attracting less railroad freight than Eastern ports, reached a low ebb shortly beforeWor...
The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad (NOPB) is a Class III switching railroad with a primary mission of serving the Port of New Orleans and local…
The trail passes an old water plant from the early days of the railroad where spring water was bottled and moved to cities for sale. You can still see part of the old building and find broken bottles lying around. There are few good swimming holes along the trail also. After the trail ...
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The Delaware Water Gap is just east of the NYS&W terminus in Stroudsburg where it connected with both the Lackawanna and the NYS&W s adjunct railroad, the Wilkes-Barre and Eastern (WB&E). The Susie Q is one of my favorite railroads, because unlike the others, it remains alive today. ...
A railroad connected New Orleans and the town of Carrollton (the former Jefferson Parish seat and now the Riverbend area of Uptown New Orleans), prompting growth along the route. This is how St. Charles Avenue grew across what was once a row of plantations. This railway is still in use to...
There are several segments that were formerly railroad right-of-ways; these are for the most part flat. There are also a few segments that go right up the sides of 100 foot changes in elevation in less than 1/2 mile. Be prepared. ...