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Louisiana Eastern Railroad
Overview
Reporting mark
LE
Locale
Midwestern to Gulf Coast, United States
Dates of operation
1947–1963
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
The Louisiana Eastern Railroad (LE) was a proposed railroad that was to serve as an alternate line bypassing the congested rail lines in New Orleans, Louisiana. The railroad was envisioned by Paulsen Spence in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and while most US railroads had or began to replace their steam locomotives with diesel locomotives, the LE was to operate exclusively with steam locomotives which Spence had collected over time. He died in 1961, and the railroad had never fully materialized.
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