The following

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companies operate in the

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Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...

Common freight carriers

* Acadiana Railway (AKDN) * Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Railroad (ALM) * Baton Rouge Southern Railroad (BRS) * Bogalusa Bayou Railroad (BBAY) * BNSF Railway (BNSF) * Canadian National Railway (CN) through subsidiary

Illinois Central Railroad The Illinois Central Railroad , sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama. A line also c ...

(IC) *

CG Railway The CG Railway is a terminal railroad as reported by the Association of American Railroads. The CGR is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, and is owned and operated by a 50/50 joint venture between SEACOR Holdings and Genesee & Wyoming. The railro ...

(CGR) * CSX Transportation (CSXT) * Delta Southern Railroad (DSRR) * Geaux Geaux Railroad (GOGR) *

Kansas City Southern Railway The Kansas City Southern Railway Company is an American Class I railroad. Founded in 1887, it operates in 10 midwestern and southeastern U.S. states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and ...

(KCS) * Louisiana and Delta Railroad (LDRR) * Louisiana and North West Railroad (LNW) * Louisiana Southern Railroad (LAS) *

New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway The New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway Company (NOGC) is a short-line railroad headquartered in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. It is a subsidiary of the Rio Grande Pacific Company and operates two former Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Rai ...

(NOGC) * New Orleans Public Belt Railroad (NOPB) * North Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad * Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) through subsidiary

Alabama Great Southern Railroad The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation (NS), running southwest from Chattanooga (where i ...

(AGS) * Ouachita Railroad (OUCH) * Port Rail (Lake Charles) (PRLC) * Timber Rock Railroad (TIBR) **Operates the Southern Gulf Railway *

Union Pacific Railroad The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Paci ...

(UP) * Zee Railroad (ZEE)

Private freight carriers

East Camden and Highland Railroad The East Camden and Highland Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad headquartered in East Camden, Arkansas. EACH operates a 47.6 mile (76.6 km) line in Arkansas from East Camden to Eagle Mills (where it interchanges with Union P ...

Laurel Valley & Rousseau Station Railroad (n.g. plantation railroad connecting Barker & Lepine properties along Bayou LaForche to one another ainly cane fields to sugar milland to S.P. trunk line).

Passenger carriers

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak () , is the national passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates inter-city rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous U.S. States and nine cities in Canada ...

(AMTK) *

New Orleans Regional Transit Authority The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (RTA or NORTA) is a public transportation agency based in New Orleans. The agency was established by the Louisiana State Legislature in 1979, and has operated bus and historic streetcar service through ...

Defunct railroads

Special notes: *# Mileage not noted separately is retrieved from the Railroad Commission of Louisiana; ''Louisiana Railroad Mileage, 1920'' *# Other railroads and companies.''Louisiana Logging Railroads''
Retrieved 2019-05-19 *

New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad The New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad (originally Rail Road) was one of six short-line rail systems built to connect the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, with surrounding neighborhoods, in this case, four-and-a-half miles to the resort village of ...

References

Notes

General references

*Association of American Railroads (2003),
Railroad Service in Louisiana
' ( PDF). Retrieved May 9, 2005. *
I.C.C. Tap Line Case Logging Railroad Summaries
Texas Transportation Archive. Retrieved May 20, 2007. {{Louisiana

Railroads Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...