Acadiana Railway

Acadiana Railway

Overview
Headquarters	Opelousas, Louisiana
Reporting mark	AKDN
Locale	Louisiana
Dates of operation	1990–
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Track length	83.1 miles owned, 5 miles leased

The Acadiana Railway Company (reporting mark AKDN) is a short line railroad based in Opelousas, Louisiana. It operates on the following trackage:

• Crowley–Eunice, 21.6 miles (34.8 km)
• by trackage rights on property of the Union Pacific Railroad, Eunice–Opelousas, 20.9 miles (33.6 km)
• Opelousas–Bunkie, Louisiana, 36.1 miles (58.1 km)
• switching tracks at Opelousas, 5 miles (8.0 km)
• per lease since September 2000, McCall–Lula (Thibodeaux Industrial Lead, owned by Union Pacific, in Donaldsonville), 5 miles (8.0 km) (Out of Service)

The Crowley-Eunice line was built by the New Orleans, Texas and Mexico Railway before 1900. The Opelusas-Eunice and Opelusas-Bunkie lines are former Missouri Pacific lines and were sold to the newly established Acadiana Railway Company in October 1990. The company started business on October 15, 1990, with the acquired trackage from Missouri Pacific and from Union Pacific. The company is controlled by Trac-Work Inc.

Roster

The AKDN fleet, as of October 2019, consists of the following eight locomotives:[1]

Number	Type	Built	Notes
701, 3018	EMD GP30	1963
1015	EMD SW1200	1966
1503, 1518	EMD SW1500	1969	1518 is leased from Larry's Truck and Electric.
1610, 4106, 8063	EMD GP9	1954-1957	4106 is the variant GP9RM, rebuilt by Canadian National in the 1980s. 8063 is the variant GP10, rebuilt by Illinois Central in 1970.

References

1. "Acadiana Railway". www.thedieselshop.us. October 3, 2019. Archived from the original on 2012-11-27. Retrieved 2021-01-31.

• Lewis, Edward A. (1996). American Shortline Railway Guide (5th ed.). Waukesha: Kalmbach Publishing. p. 15.

External links

• Acadiana Railway on uprr.com