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((Infobox rail
| railroad_name=Louisiana and Arkansas Railway
| system_map=1903 Poor's Louisiana and Arkansas Railway.jpg
| map_caption=1903 system map of the L&A
| logo_filename=Louisiana and Arkansas Railway (1938 logo).jpg
| logo_size=119
| gauge = ((track gauge|ussg|allk=on))
| old_gauge=
| marks=LA
| locale=Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas
| start_year=1898
| end_year=1992
| successor_line=[[Kansas City Southern Railway|Kansas City Southern]]
| hq_city=Shreveport, Louisiana
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The '''Louisiana and Arkansas Railway''' ((reporting mark|LA)) was a [[rail transport|railroad]] that operated in the states of [[Arkansas]], [[Louisiana]], and [[Texas]].  The railroad's main line extended 332 miles, from [[Hope, Arkansas]] to [[Shreveport]] and [[New Orleans]].  Branch lines served [[Vidalia, Louisiana]] (opposite [[Natchez, Mississippi]]), and [[Dallas, Texas]].

==History==
((citations needed|section|date=October 2021))
The Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad was incorporated in Arkansas in 1898 for the purpose of acquiring former logging railroad properties in Arkansas and Louisiana. The railroad was constructed and initially operated under the leadership of William Buchanan, a prosperous timberman with extensive investments in southwest [[Arkansas]] and northwest [[Louisiana]]. Buchanan's partners were [[Harvey C. Couch]] and [[William C. Edenborn]]. Buchanan's primary company, Bodcaw Lumber Company, was headquartered in [[Stamps, Arkansas]], and that city also served as headquarters of the L&A until the late 1920s. It was reorganized in 1902 as the Louisiana and Arkansas ''Railway''.

==1910==
[[File:Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, Stamps, Arkansas.jpg|thumb|Loading lumber in [[Stamps, Arkansas]], 1904]]

In 1910, the L&A Railway and Arkansas Southern Railroad were involved in a dispute over Louisiana taxes, a notable court case which ultimately was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.<ref>((cite web| url=http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=218&invol=431| title=Arkansas Southern R. Co. v. Louisiana & A R Co, 218 U.S. 431 (1910)| date=1910-11-28| work=FindLaw| author=U.S. Supreme Court| access-date=2007-01-10))</ref>

==1920s==
During the late 1920s, a group of investors led by Harvey Couch began acquiring Louisiana & Arkansas stock. These investors owned electric and telephone utilities in Arkansas and Louisiana and believed that railroad ownership in their service area would also be profitable.  When control of the L&A was thus secured on January 16, 1928,<ref>((cite web| url=http://www.kcshs.org/schedule/subs/images/history/kcs_hist.htm| title=The Kansas City Southern Lines| author=Pitcher, Charles, Manager of DOT Compliance, KCS| date=July 1950| publisher=Kansas City Southern Historical Society| access-date=2007-01-10))</ref> a new company was chartered in [[Delaware]] in 1928 to acquire the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company, and to acquire and lease the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company, that operated a marginally profitable railroad between [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]] and [[Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport]].
<!-- Image with unknown copyright status removed: [[Image:L&A-map.jpg|thumb|400px|Map of Louisiana and Arkansas Railway]] -->
The L&A inaugurated a new premier passenger train, ''The Shreveporter'', on December 30, 1928, operating between Shreveport and [[Hope, Arkansas]].  This train carried a through [[Pullman Company|Pullman]] sleeping car between Shreveport and [[St. Louis, Missouri]], in conjunction with [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]].  A second named passenger train, ''The Hustler'', was added to provide overnight service between Shreveport and New Orleans, beginning on July 2, 1932.

==1930s==
The Harvey Couch interests began purchasing stock of the [[Kansas City Southern Railway]] (KCS) in 1937.  After gaining control of the KCS in 1939, a decision was made to merge the two properties.  Kansas City Southern was the surviving corporation, with the Louisiana & Arkansas as a KCS subsidiary, but the KCS president and the controlling stockholders were all from the L&A.  This merger created "single line" railroad freight service between [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]] and New Orleans, and on September 2, 1940, a new KCS-L&A diesel powered [[streamliner]], the ''[[Southern Belle (KCS)|Southern Belle]]'', was inaugurated to connect the two cities.

==1940s==
In 1948, in a letter to Ernest W. Roberts, [[Harry Truman]] described the difficult working conditions for certain black workers  employed by this railroad.<ref>((cite web| url=http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=591| title=Letter to Ernest W. Roberts| author=Truman, Harry S.| date=1948-08-18| work=TeachingAmericanHistory.org| access-date=2007-01-10| author-link=Harry S. Truman))</ref><ref>((cite web| url=http://cehs.unl.edu/tcforum/spring/crm/truman.html| title=Truman Letter| author=Truman, Harry S.| date=1948-08-18| work=Multicultural Education| access-date=2007-01-10| author-link=Harry S. Truman| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://archive.today/20070804152242/http://cehs.unl.edu/tcforum/spring/crm/truman.html| archive-date=2007-08-04))</ref>

==1950s==
The worst wreck in the history of the L&A occurred on August 10, 1951, when a northbound L&A troop train collided head-on with the southbound ''Southern Belle'' just north of [[Lettsworth, Louisiana]]; Lettsworth is located approximately 55 miles northwest of [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]], on a segment of the [[Texas and Pacific Railway]] over which L&A trains had operating rights.  The troop train was traveling 40&nbsp;mph (64&nbsp;km/h) and the ''Southern Belle'' was moving at the maximum speed limit of 55&nbsp;mph (89&nbsp;km/h) when the collision occurred on a long curve where vegetation obscured visibility.  Thirteen people were killed, and another eighty-two were injured.  It was determined that the accident had occurred because the troop train had overlooked a [[train order]] to wait in a siding at Lettsworth to allow the passenger train to pass.((needs citation|date=October 2021))

==1950- 1960==
[[File:L&A Train 10, The Flying Crow, New Orleans Union Terminal 1967- A Roger Puta Photograph (24630730226).jpg|thumb|Louisiana and Arkansas Railway's Train 10, ''The Flying Crow'', at [[New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal|New Orleans Union Terminal]] on November 22, 1967.]]
The identity of the Louisiana & Arkansas gradually disappeared in the 1950s and 1960s, as the Kansas City Southern name was adopted for all properties.  By 1966, all reference to the Louisiana & Arkansas had disappeared from the annual stockholder reports of Kansas City Southern.  ''The Shreveporter'', once the pride of the L&A, was discontinued on January 24, 1962, and the ''Southern Belle'' was discontinued on November 2, 1969, ending all passenger train service on the former Louisiana & Arkansas.

==1990s==
In 1992, Kansas City Southern dissolved the subsidiary Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, although the former L&A route continues to be a major component of the Kansas City Southern.

==References==
((Reflist))

==Bibliography==
*((cite book| title=The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway| author=Fair, James R.| year=1997| isbn=0-87580-219-2 ))
*((cite book| title=Southern Timberman, The Legacy of William Buchanan| url=https://archive.org/details/southerntimberma00mayo| url-access=registration| author=Mayor, Archer H.| year=1988| isbn=0-8203-0999-0 ))
*((cite book| title=Harvey Couch, An Entrepreneur Brings Electricity to Arkansas| author=Wilson, Stephen| year=1986| isbn=0-87483-025-7 ))
*((cite book| title=Harvey Couch, The Master Builder| author=Wilson, Winston P.| year=1947 ))

==External links==
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*[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eql07 Texas Handbook Online-L&A Ry.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051030155859/http://dotlibrary1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?file&fn=6&name=R%3A%5CA-M%5CDOT%5CRailroad%5CWEBSEARCH%5C3419.PDF Interstate Commerce Commission Accident Report No. 3419]

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