New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad
The New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad (
History
The New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad was incorporated in 1868 in Louisiana (under the name of Mandeville and Sulphur Springs Railroad until 1870
In 1916 the Southern Railway acquired the NO&NE, which had been marketed as a portion of the Queen and Crescent Route since the 1880s.[2] From that point on the NO&NE owned or were assigned locomotives and other equipment with Southern lettering, but they carried NO&NE sublettering until the line was merged into the Alabama Great Southern in the late-60s, at which time sublettering was changed to AGS.
In 1969, as part of an effort to simplify its corporate structure, the Southern Railway's Alabama Great Southern Railroad operating subsidiary merged the NO&NE, ending its existence on paper.[2]
In 1960 NO&NE reported 746 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 13 million passenger-miles; at the end of that year it operated 203 miles of road and 368 miles of track.
Today
The line remains in operation today.[when?] After a merger, the Southern Railway changed its name to the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1990.
References
- ^ Interstate Commerce Commission, 37 Val. Rep. 1 (1931): Valuation Docket No. 973, New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company
- ^ Kalmbach Books. 2000. p. 409.