The Louisiana & Pacific Railway Company, controlled by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, had a total of 30.904 miles of tracks and trackage rights of 45 miles on the Lake Charles & Northern, between DeRidder and Bridge Junction (
Lake Charles), and 6.3 miles from Bundicks (Longacre) to Hoy
The railway connected with the ''
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. From its starting point in Galveston, Texas, the railroad eventually extended northwestwards across the state to Sweetwater and northwards via ...
Company'' at
DeRidder, the ''Kansas City Southern Railway Company'' at Bon Ami, DeRidder, and Lake Charles, the ''Lake Charles & Northern Railroad Company'' at DeRidder (Junction), Fayette, Lake Charles, and Longville, the ''Louisiana Western Railroad Company'' at Lake Charles, the ''Missouri Pacific Railroad Company'' at Lake Charles, and the
New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway
The New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway was a constituent element of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
The Missouri Pacific Railroad , commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi Rive ...
at Fulton which was 2 to 3 miles east of Ragley and one mile from Pearl.
The only surviving steam locomotive from the L&P is
Virginia and Truckee Railroad
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad is a privately owned heritage railroad, headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada. Its private and publicly owned route is long. When first constructed in the 19th century, it was a commercial freight railroad ...
2-8-0 No.29.
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Defunct railroad companies of the United States
Standard gauge railways in the United States
Defunct Louisiana railroads
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See also
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* :Former entities
* End-of-life product
* Obsolescence
Obsolescence is t ...
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