Baton Rouge station

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Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot
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Location100 South River Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Coordinates 30°26′47″N91°11′25″W / 30.44641°N 91.19041°W / 30.44641; -91.19041
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1925
Architectural style Classical Revival
Website www.lasm.org
NRHP reference No. 94000463 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 19, 1994

Baton Rouge station is a historic train station located at 100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which got absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad. The station was a stop on the Y&MV main line between Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana. The building now houses the Louisiana Art and Science Museum. [2]

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The two-story main block and the two one-story wings in Classical Revival style stand directly across the Old State Capitol building. [3] [4] [5]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1994, as the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot. [1]

Illinois Central's 333 steam engine at the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot IC333.JPG
Illinois Central's 333 steam engine at the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot

IC-333, a 0-6-0 steam engine formerly owned by the Charles Black Sand & Gravel Company of Fluker, LA, is on display just outside the building. Several passenger cars previously on display have been removed. As of 2011, IC-333 and its tender have been removed from the site as well.

Passenger service

In 1949 passenger service consisted of the Illinois Central's Planter, an all-coach train from Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans via Vicksburg, Mississippi (along the Yazoo (main line, rather than the IC main line). The station hosted an additional two trains to and two trains from New Orleans. [6]

In the station's final years of use, it was not used by the Illinois Central but instead by the Missouri Pacific, the unnamed successor to the Houstonian night train on the Houston - New Orleans route. [7] [8] This was not the final train in the city; the Kansas City Southern Railway continued the Southern Belle until 1969 at that company's own station in Baton Rouge. [9] [10]

Louisiana Art and Science Museum

The museum contains many exhibits and galleries, as well as a planetarium.

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ "LOUISIANA ART AND SCIENCE MUSEUM". www.lasm.org. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company Depot - Archiplanet". www.archiplanet.org. Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Retrieved May 29, 2008.
  4. ↑ "Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot" (PDF). State of Louisiana's Division of Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 17, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018. with three photos and a map Archived 2018-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ National Register Staff (January 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot". National Park Service . Retrieved May 16, 2018. With 13 photos from 1993.
  6. ↑ "Illinois Central Railroad, Table 16". Official Guide of the Railways. 82 (3). National Railway Publication Company. August 1949.
  7. ↑ "Illinois Central Railroad, Table 15". Official Guide of the Railways. 98 (8). National Railway Publication Company. January 1966.
  8. ↑ "Missouri Pacific Railroad, Table 5, reporting the March 1965 timetable". Official Guide of the Railways. 98 (8). National Railway Publication Company. January 1966.
  9. ↑ Carter, Thad Hills (2009). Kansas City Southern Railway. Images of Rail. (Reprint of an article by Philip Moseley originally published in the May 1986 issue of Arkansas Railroader). Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Portsmouth, NH; San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7385-6001-4.
  10. ↑ "The Southern Belle". Louisiana Political Museum. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  11. ↑ "Ancient Egypt | LASM". www.lasm.org. Archived from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved March 31, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Meet Jason the triceratops". WBRZ. Retrieved April 10, 2022.
  13. ↑ Mitchell, David (September 28, 2021). "Louisiana's missing moon rock found by Florida man recycling wooden plaques into gun stock". The Advocate. Retrieved October 2, 2021.
Preceding station Illinois Central Railroad Following station
St. Gabriel
toward New Orleans
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Main Line North Baton Rouge
toward Memphis
Terminus Baton Rouge  – Hammond Baton Rouge Junction
toward Hammond
Preceding station Missouri Pacific Railroad Following station
Walls
toward Houston
Houston  – New Orleans Gardere
toward New Orleans


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