["The Hustler" arriving in Shreveport, Louisana]
Description:
Known in the Pelican State as the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway's "The Hustler," train No. 4-203, northbound, arriving in Shreveport, Louisiana from New Orleans on an April morning in 1939.
The small Pacific, type 4-6-2 locomotive, which heads this passenger train, carries the train's name etched on a metal plate attached to the boiler front, positioned below the headlight.
These overnight trains - operating between New Orleans and Shreveport were popular over a long span of years, making t…
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Date:
April 1939
Partner:
Museum of the American Railroad