Red River Railroad
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red-river-railroad-295-8084119
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Red River Railroad
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The Red River Railroad, also known as the Ralph Smith Smith Railroad and the Alexandria and Cheneyville Railroad, was the first railroad in the United States built west of the Mississippi River. An area engineer, planter and steamboat operator, Ralph Smith Smith, developed 16 miles (26 km) of 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge railroad line to connect Smith's Landing at Lecompte, Louisiana to the docks at Alexandria, Louisiana, enabling area settlers to have greater opportunity to get their crops to market.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Railroad
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2017-06-30T08:16:44Z
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