New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad

It was constructed with a track gauge of 4 ft 8 in (1,422 mm)[1] and was the only one of the New Orleans suburban railways to use locomotives to pull the passenger cars (the other five used horses or mules).

[2] Among the antebellum officials was the line's secretary, Albert Blanchard, who would become a Confederate brigadier general in the Civil War.

Following the Civil War, the line was leased to former Confederate general P. G. T. Beauregard, who with two financial backers, assumed control of the NO&CRR in April 1866.

However, his partners proved untrustworthy, and Beauregard was publicly embarrassed when the line failed to pay its debts within a few years.

In 1983, NOPSI became part of privately owned Entergy, and transferred all transportation operations to the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA).