Halfway Station

The line began as a steam railroad. Passenger service on the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad started on September 26, 1835, behind two locomotives built in England, until neighbors complained of soot and noise and horses and mules took over. Dr. Emile Lamm's fireless engine ran pairs of cars in the 1880s, and electric cars began on February 1, 1893. Service stopped after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and returned to Claiborne Avenue on June 22, 2008. The line became a National Historic Landmark in 2014, one of only two moving streetcar landmarks.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.0 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.9 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 3.0 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 3.0 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Gilbert Academy and New Orleans University — 0.6 mi
• Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) — 0.9 mi
• Garden District — 1.0 mi
• Commander's Palace — 1.1 mi