New Orleans, LA New Orleans Terminal Station depot. (Frisco System) New Orleans Terminal Company passenger depot and freight house. 1908 Sanborn Map.
The June 30, 1912 Frisco system map shows the Frisco used the Houston and Texas Central (H&TC), "with whom the Frisco had a traffic alliance ", to go from Dallas to Houston. At Houston the Frisco connected with its subsidiary the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico (NOT&M) Railroad. That railroad ran along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Brownsville, TX to Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The Frisco lost control of the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railroad, along with the Chicago and Eastern Illinois (C&EI) when it went into receivership in May 1913. The NOT&M also owned the 28.5 mile narrow gauge Rio Grande Railroad. Tomd6
Very interesting, thank you for posting. The Southern Railway had a station at Canal and Basin Streets in New Orleans, which unfortunately was torn down decades ago. It looked nothing like this however and although I am not sure of the exact location for this proposal, I rather doubt this building was ever built.
It is the same location as the Southern station that actually got built, and that I went though as a child. Here is a nice write up about it by my friend on another forum: “This is one of the proposed design for the joint station on Canal and Basin. This particular design was presented by the Frisco. It was rejected, thankfully. The final design was by Daniel Burnham. Maybe misspelled. His other noted design, Washington D.C. Union Station. When completed was referred to has New Orleans Terminal Station. Later Southern Railway Terminal Station. Or Terminal Station. Frisco never got to use the station via its Gulf Coast Line, GCL. Going into bankruptcy, GCL was acquired by the Missouri Pacific system and moved its passenger operations to Union Station. The Terminal was home to the Southern, G.M.&O. and L.R.&N./L.&A. In 1928 the L.&A. the line moved to its new station on Rampant St. just blocks from the Union station. This was the last of 5 stations located in the City of New Orleans.”
New Orleans, LA. New Orleans Terminal Station depot. Should never have torn this down. There is nothing there now but a neglected median.
Agreed. Same is true in my opinion with respect to the L&N station that once stood at the foot of Canal Street.
They tore them all down. Except for the L&A shoebox they were all architectural masterpieces. And they replaced them with one Mussolini looking temple built too late in the railroad era. http://archives.nolalibrary.org/~nopl/exhibits/choochoo/page3.htm
What is the old depot behind Bud's Broiler across from Delgado? It had been converted to a lawyer's office.
There is no old depot there. One aerial photograph from the 1940s shows a depot across the track from Delgado. No other photographs known to exist.
Perhaps it was a freight depot or a warehouse, but to my eyes it was distinctly railroad-related. If I can't find it on Google Maps. I will drive by and photograph it next week when I'm back down there. I have just always been curious about it.
