Louisiana and Delta Railroad

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Louisiana and Delta Railroad

Overview
Headquarters| New Iberia, Louisiana
Reporting mark| LDRR
Locale| Louisiana
Dates of operation| 1987-present
Technical
Track gauge| 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
The Louisiana & Delta's only surviving ATSF CF7 locomotive, formerly LDRR 1500.

The Louisiana and Delta Railroad (reporting mark LDRR) is a short-line railroad headquartered in New Iberia, Louisiana.

LDRR operates over 114 miles of branch line in southern Louisiana between Lafayette, Louisiana and Raceland, Louisiana, with most of the lines near US 90. LDRR operates via trackage rights on the BNSF Railway. LDRR traffic generally consists of bauxite ore, carbon black, fertilizer, molasses, oilfield supplies, paper products, pipe, sugar and rice.

This is current Amtrak New Iberia Station, headquarters of the Louisiana & Delta railroad.

The railroad's current headquarters is at New Iberia station, formerly the Southern Pacific train station. There, you can find the building, a small yard, and further down a siding, the Locomotive Workshop.

The lines were built between 1880 and 1890. LDRR started in 1987 with the sale of seven Southern Pacific lines to Genesee and Wyoming. It has an all EMD locomotive fleet. EMD CF7s, GP10s, GP10-1s, GP38-2s, a single SW1200, a GP38, and a GP8 make up their active roster. As of July 2021, the roster is made up of 1 GP15-1 (1536), 7 GP10-1s (1702, 1703, 1707, 1708, 1709, 1850, and 1852), 3 GP8s (1710, 1712, and 1717), and 2 GP18-1s (1846 and 1847). Plus, 2 CF7s (1500 and 1504), are at the shops, with 1500 being in decent condition, and 1504 having its carbody and engine removed, plus other parts.

Louisiana & Delta GP38 and GP10

As of 2023, Genesee & Wyoming holds 101 miles. The Louisiana & Delta Railroad interchanges at a few locations. It interchanges with BNSF in Lafayette, Louisiana and Schriever, Louisiana, and with Union Pacific in New Iberia, Louisiana and Raceland, Louisiana. It can hold up to 263,000 pounds of supplies.[1]

## References

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1. ^ "Louisiana & Delta Railroad – A Genesee & Wyoming Company". Retrieved 7 August 2023.

## External links

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* Railways portal

* Louisiana and Delta Railroad official webpage - Genesee and Wyoming website
* Link to Union Pacific Website with LDRR Details
* The Louisiana & Delta in Daylon (Railroad Pictures Archive)
* The Louisiana & Delta in Raceland, Louisiana; May 19, 2004 (RailPictures.net)
* HawkinsRails.net - Louisiana & Delta
* The Louisiana & Delta Collection (Railroad Pictures Archive)

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Railroads of Louisiana

Common carriers|

* Acadiana Railway
* Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi Railroad
* BNSF
* Baton Rouge Southern Railroad
* CG Railway
* CPKC
* CSX
* Delta Southern Railroad
* East Camden & Highland Railroad
* Gloster Southern Railroad
* Illinois Central Railroad
* Louisiana & Delta Railroad
* Louisiana & North West Railroad
* Louisiana Southern Railroad
* New Orleans and Gulf Coast Railway
* New Orleans Public Belt Railroad
* Norfolk Southern
* Ouachita Railroad
* Timber Rock Railroad
* Union Pacific

Passenger carriers|

* Amtrak

* See also: Former carriers in Louisiana
* List of United States railroads by political division

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Genesee & Wyoming

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* Alabama & Gulf Coast
* Aliquippa & Ohio River
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* Fordyce & Princeton
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* Grand Rapids Eastern
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* Huron & Eastern
* Huron Central
* Illinois & Midland
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* Louisiana & Delta
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* Massena Terminal
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* Puget Sound & Pacific
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* Riceboro Southern
* Rochester & Southern
* Dansville & Mount Morris
* Genesee & Wyoming
* St Lawrence & Atlantic / St-Laurent & Atlantique
* San Diego & Imperial Valley
* San Joaquin Valley
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* South Buffalo
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* Southern Ontario
* Tazewell & Peoria
* Texas Northeastern
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* Tomahawk
* Utah
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* Valdosta
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* Western Kentucky
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* Wilmington Terminal
* Wiregrass Central
* York
* Youngstown & Austintown
* Youngstown Belt

Other operations|

* Freightliner Group
* Rotterdam Rail Feeding

Former operations|

* Genesee & Wyoming Australia (51%)
* Rockdale, Sandow & Southern
* Talleyrand Terminal
* Corpus Christi Terminal Railroad

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