The Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railway

Author: James R. Fair

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9780875802190

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The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, known as "The Better Way," ran its first trains at the turn of the century and expanded over the years to connect New Orleans to Dallas. Well-maintained and enduringly profitable, this regional railroad succeeded because of the tenacity of three men who consecutively oversaw all aspects of operations. The story of the L&A is largely a collective biography of William Edenborn, William Buchanan, and Harvey Couch--the men who built and extended the line by shrewd acquisitions. These successful businessmen combined wisdom, foresight, and propensity for hard word--traits they had first demonstrated in other careers--with their longtime love for trains. Each applied remarkable talents for industry and commerce toward the development of the L&A to mold it into a model regional railroad. In this first history of the L&A, Fair traces the line's development from the early boom days of railroading to its dissolution in the modern era of takeovers. Although for much of its existence the L&A operated under the control of a parent company, the KCS, it long maintained independence. The eventual takeover by the superline in 1992 finally dissolved the L&A entirely.

LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RAILWAY I
LOUISIANA & ARKANSAS RAILWAY I

Author: Arthur Marvin] 1880 [Anderson

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781374372665

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Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway

Author: Arthur Marvin Anderson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-16

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780656732876

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Excerpt from Louisiana and Arkansas Railway: Its Territory, Industries and Financial Condition, With Illustrations From Photographs, 1904 The strategic position of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway is apparent to any one familiar with the resources of its territory, as the road forms a link between the immense longleaf pine forests of Louisiana and the treeless prairies of the West. Upon the completion of its Natchez extension, if not before, the road will form part of a through route from the Central West to New Orleans and a large amount of foreign business should result. Manufacturing enterprises of various sorts are rapidly springing up and their output, together with the agricultural products of the country tributary to the road, constitutes an amount of outgoing freight that makes the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway particularly valuable to its connections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.