New Orleans proposed monorail system map print, 1959 Size:12x18 I made this one as

I made this one as an homage to my old neighborhood

the California Cable Railway

Like most American cities

when the trains were pulled by a mix of horses

the developers oversold and underdelivered - enough land had been sold to house two million people in a county of 111

New Orleans proposed monorail system map print, 1959 Size:12x18 I made this one asAfter World War II, it wasn't clear which metropolis would be the 500 pound gorilla of the Gulf Coast: Houston or New Orleans, and the two cities tried to one up each other through infrastructure projects. So, when Houston built the Astrodome, of course New Orleans had to get their own dome, only bigger. In this vein, a company called "Monorail Inc." proposed to build a train between the CBD and the airport, financed with private money. It would