Thank you very much for this information of a beautiful piece of history that can still be preserved in this museum. I would give anything to walk through this museum! Beautiful photo by the way!
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The New Orleans & Carrollton Rail Road is better known today as the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line, now operated by the New Orleans Regional Transit authority--and to this day, it is a broad-gauge system. The oldest operating streetcar is from 1898--only one, #29, used for maintenance of way (shown at https://www.railpictures.net/photo/135972/). The regular St. Charles Ave. line streetcars were built 1923-24.
That this system allegedly contemplated a line to St. Francisville seems so bizarre as to be hard to believe. The St. Charles Ave. line runs a total of about 6 miles; St. Francisville would be about 120 miles farther, depending on the route.
New Orleans got its first steam locomotive around 1837, but instead of running upriver (more or less west) from the original city, it ran to Lake Pontchartrain (more or less north).
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