West End Train

ID: 1960 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Louisiana State Museum.

This file appears in: 1887 Thanksgiving Day Bicycle Road Race

This image from a few years after the Thanksgiving Day race depicts the West End Train. The view is looking towards the river.

This file appears in: 1887 Thanksgiving Day Bicycle Road Race

1887 Thanksgiving Day Bicycle Road Race

By Lacar Musgrove

On a crisp Thanksgiving Day in 1887, a crowd gathered beneath the bare branches of the sycamore trees in the center of Canal Street. Bisected by multiple street railway beds and flanked by the…