Trains and Transit in New Orleans
The Big Easy: at the height of American passenger rail, the terminus at the Gulf of Mexico for seven major movers using five terminal stations. The city organized its own public belt switching operation to shuffle all the fright coming into its ports from around the hemisphere. And of course those streetcars: the world's oldest continually operating public street railway. Those cars roll on, expanded, and so do five Class One railroads, plus Amtrak. Crescent City connections abound.
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t has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans. But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.
Mark Twain, 1859