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The Walnut Street Ferry in
, Louisiana; connected Walnut Street in the Greenville section of New Orleans (just upriver from
Audubon Park, New Orleans
Audubon Park (historically french: Plantation de Boré) is a municipal park located in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. It is approximately 350 acres. The park is approximately six miles to the west of the ...
) with Sala Avenue in
Westwego, Louisiana
Westwego is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located in Jefferson Parish. It is a suburban community of New Orleans in the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area and lies along the west bank of the Mississippi River. The population of the ci ...
across the
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...
for over half a century. It carried rail traffic as well as pedestrians and automobiles.
Use declined with the opening of the
Huey P. Long Bridge (Jefferson Parish)
The Huey P. Long Bridge, located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, is a cantilevered steel through-truss bridge that carries a two-track railroad line over the Mississippi River at mile 106.1, with three lanes of US 90 on each side of the centra ...
in 1935, with most rail traffic using that new route which did not require the time and trouble of sectioning trains to load them on to ferries. The ferry was finally discontinued following damage in the
1947 New Orleans Hurricane.
Transportation in New Orleans
Ferries of Louisiana
Transportation in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Westwego, Louisiana
Ferries of the Mississippi River
1940s disestablishments in Louisiana