Transportation
Click to hear Bouncing Around recorded by Piron's New Orleans Orchestra in 1923.
Across the Lake
1860s Pontchartrain Railroad Company Steamer Receipts
1895 ~CAPE CHARLES Ferry/Steamboat
1900's ~The steamboat New Camelia
1930's - present 5 Mile Bridge to Slidell
1956 - present ~~The Causeway
Illinois Central Railroad
L.& N. Railroad
Southern Railway
Over the Lake
1934 - present ~Shushan Airport (now New Orleans Lakefront Airport)
Roller Coaster at Spanish Fort
Overview of Transportation and the Lake
To the Lake
1700s - Old Basin (Carondelet) Canal
1830-1930 ~The Pontchartrain Railroad (The Smoky Mary)
1830's - 1950's~~The New Basin Canal
1870's ~~The Shell Road
1921-present ~~The Industrial Canal
1930's - present ~Lake Shore Drive