Background
Incorporated April 1, 1878, as successor to the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western. About 1883 the Morgan's Louisiana
and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company came under the influence of Central Pacific management and on March 1, 1885, was
leased to the Southern Pacific Company, but was operated as a separated company until title transferred to the Texas and New
Orlean on March 1, 1927. The road had about fifty locomotives, which, in 1884, went into the T&NO roster, although the initials
ML&T, indicating corporate ownership, remained on the engines until 1916. [Guy Dunscomb, A CENTURY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM
LOCOMOTIVES, 1862-1962 (Modesto, California: 1967), pp. 424-426].
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