Southport area, 1932
This file appears in: O-K Line: Railroad Collision at Southport, 1926
A portion of the USGS Topographical map of New Orleans West quadrant showing the Southport area as it existed in 1932. The path of the O-K Line, which ceased operations two years earlier, is shown marked in red to highlight the numerous railroad lines crossed by the O-K. These grade crossings were often a source of conflict for the interurban line.
Department of Geography and Cartography, Louisiana State University.
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…