This history of street and interurban electric railways ofLouisiana outlines and accentuates a fascinating and marvelous period of growthenjoyed by the state's larger cities, the interval of time between the 1870sand the late 1920s.Hennick details street railways from all over the state; fromAlexandria to Baton Rouge, Lake Charles to Shreveport. He also gives specialattention to the major rail lines, such as the O-K Line and the BurnsideTramway, and the major companies investing in the street railway projects, suchas the St. Tammany New Orleans Railways and Ferry Co., and theSouthwestern Traction Power Co.Within Street Railways of Louisiana the readers willfind not solely the story of the trolley car in Louisiana, but will alsounderstand the attraction, the romance, and the value of the era in which themule car and electric streetcar flourished.
