East Louisiana Railroad
Defunct railroad in Louisiana and Mississippi, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The East Louisiana Railroad (officially the East Louisiana Railroad Company), chartered in 1887, was a railroad in Louisiana and Mississippi, United States. It was formed to connect Pearl River, Louisiana, to Covington, Louisiana, and Lake Pontchartrain.[1]
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Dates of operation | 1887ā1905 |
Successor | New Orleans Great Northern Railway |
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Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1ā2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Length | 55 miles (89 km) |
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The company played a key role in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson by arranging for Homer Plessy, a black man, to board a whites-only passenger car. In 1889, the company chartered trains to a boxing match between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain. In 1905, it was merged into the New Orleans Great Northern Railway.