Baton Rouge station
Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Baton Rouge station is a historic train station located at 100 South River Road in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was built for the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad which got absorbed by the Illinois Central Railroad. The station was a stop on the Y&MV main line between Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana. The building now houses the Louisiana Art and Science Museum.[1]
The two-story main block and the two one-story wings in Classical Revival style stand directly across the Old State Capitol building.[2][3][4]
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 19, 1994, as the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot.[5]
IC-333, a 0-6-0 steam engine formerly owned by the Charles Black Sand & Gravel Company of Fluker, LA, is on display just outside the building. Several passenger cars previously on display have been removed. As of 2011, IC-333 and its tender have been removed from the site as well.
Passenger service
In 1949 passenger service consisted of the Illinois Central's Planter, an all-coach train from Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans via Vicksburg, Mississippi (along the Yazoo (main line, rather than the IC main line). The station hosted an additional two trains to and two trains from New Orleans.[6]
In the station's final years of use, it was not used by the Illinois Central but instead by the Missouri Pacific, the unnamed successor to the Houstonian night train on the Houston - New Orleans route.[7][8] This was not the final train in the city; the Kansas City Southern Railway continued the Southern Belle until 1969 at that company's own station in Baton Rouge.[9][10]
Louisiana Art and Science Museum
The museum contains many exhibits and galleries, as well as a planetarium.
- An ancient Egyptian mummy from the Ptolemaic dynasty.[11]
- A gallery for the Solar System, including displays on astronomy and meteors. In 2018, the museum was also loaned a Triceratops skull from a private collection, nicknamed Jason.[12]
- Louisiana's Apollo 11 lunar sample display in its stores.[13]
See also
- Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
- National Register of Historic Places listings in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
- Delta Blues Museum (former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Co. Depot) in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Footnotes
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- ↑ Carter, Thad Hills (2009). Kansas City Southern Railway. Images of Rail. (Reprint of an article by Philip Moseley originally published in the May 1986 issue of Arkansas Railroader). Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Portsmouth, NH; San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7385-6001-4.
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External links
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- Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
- Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
- Neoclassical architecture in Louisiana
- Former Illinois Central Railroad stations
- Museums in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- National Register of Historic Places in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Railway stations in the United States opened in 1925
- 1925 establishments in Louisiana
- Former railway stations in Louisiana
- Natural history museums in Louisiana