Word: shreveporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...port. That same year (1873) Government engineers decided Big Cypress Bayou was flooding farms and villages in the sandy lowlands, dynamited the natural dam which had backed the bayou up toward Jefferson, thus put the city's docks out of commission, ended its water commerce with Shreveport and New Orleans...
Harvey Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. has only one dining car, the K.C.S. but three. Assets of the two roads foot up in about the same ratio - $36,500,000: $136,000,000 - and dining car and passenger revenues mean little to either. Running from New Orleans to Shreveport, La. and Hope, Ark. with an affiliate branching to Dallas, Tex. the L. & A. carries mostly quarry products, refined oils and sugar...
With the shortest route between Kansas City and Port Arthur on the Gulf of Mexico, the K.C.S. does a good business each year carrying coal, oil and farm products. It joins the L. & A. at Shreveport. The man who built the Kansas City Southern into a first-class railroad was bush-bearded old Leonor Fresnel Loree of the Delaware & Hudson R.R., ousted from his post of stewardship on the K.C.S. last year by Paine, Webber after a long-drawn-out fight at the corporate polls...
...year before. What the deal last week meant was that Harvey Couch's ideas on co-operation would be applied to freight operations, especially since the two roads together would have the most direct route between New Orleans and Kansas City by way of Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Texarkana and Joplin...