Named Trains: #23 – Acadian

#23 – Acadian

Railroad(s): Southern Pacific 

Operated: ?-1956 

Route(s): New Orleans – Houston

Following one A-titled train running glamorously through the Deep South is another. The most interesting thing about the Acadian name is it could have potentially been applied to two different regions: the Atlantic Maritimes and the Louisiana Delta area. The dual regions are the result of the ancestry of French Acadians, who settled first the Maritime region in what's now Eastern Canada and Maine, and another sect who traveled as far as Louisiana and ultimately became Cajuns. This ancestral identity makes for a distinctive, authentic brand for both areas, one that was ultimately incorporated by the Southern Pacific on overnight trains traveling through the Bayou between New Orleans and Houston.

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