Although slow and crudely built, the train was capable of making one round trip daily.
[1] The railroad transported sugar cane and cotton in connection with steamboats on the Red River.
It was destroyed in 1864 during the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War when Union soldiers used rails, cross ties, bridge timbers, and rolling stock from the railroad as material to dump into the Red River in the construction of Bailey's Dam.
[1][4] The car house in Alexandria was burned when the town was destroyed by retreating Union forces on May 13, 1864.
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