The Pontchartrain Rail-Road was the first railway built in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chartered in 1830, it began carrying people and goods between the Mississippi River front and Lake Pontchartrain on April 23, 1831, and it closed more than a hundred years later. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Pontchartrain Rail-Road was the first railway in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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