Location: Gretna 70053 Louisiana | Category: Historical Museums

Louisiana Railroad Museum

On the National Register of Historical Places, the Texas-Pacific railroad station was built in 1905, and replaced a pre-Civil War wood structure close to the rail ferry. The Gretna Station was the starting point of all Texas-Pacific rails going north and west of the Mississippi. In 1993, Louisiana State Railroad Museum became the new occupant. With most of its modernism ripped out, exposing its very ornate embossed tin ceiling, restoration moved very slowly as funds became available. After 60 years of mostly desolation and idleness, Gretna's Texas-Pacific Station, restored to its 1905 appearance, lives again as it hosts bus loads of excited children and rail fans from everywhere.

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