O-K Line / L. R. & N. Wreckage
This file appears in: O-K Line: Railroad Collision at Southport, 1926
This image was taken from the track of the O-K Line looking toward the city. The O-K tracks were located in what is now the median of Jefferson Highway, which was then in the process of being extended from Shrewsbury Road to South Claiborne Avenue at the parish line.
November 18, 1926 photography by A. Pelle. Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library.
This file appears in: O-K Line: Railroad Collision at Southport, 1926
O-K Line: Railroad Collision at Southport, 1926
On the evening of November 18, 1926, a railcar of the Orleans-Kenner Traction Co. (popularly called the "O-K Line") was traveling through Southport when it was hit by the rear end of a Louisiana…