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This is a highly schematic map of the trackage on Canal
Street and in the Canal Street area late in the horsecar era, about 1890.
Data are from pictures in this article and from Hennick & Charlton.
Only streets of interest are shown. The map is not drawn to any scale.
The green circle represents the Henry Clay statue at the corner of Canal and St. Charles Streets. The smaller circles connected to the tracks represent turntables. The details of the West End steam line's Canal Street terminus are unclear. It seems likely either that the locomotives could operate in both directions, or that they were turned on the same turntable as the horsecars, on the lake side of the Henry Clay statue. In either case, there was probably some arrangement so that the locomotives dropped their trains between Carondelet and St. Charles, then ran around them, backed up to the coaches, and recoupled for the return trip. The available pictures do not settle this issue. The arrangement of switches and crossovers shown at Canal and Carondelet is based primarily on Picture 29. The details of the tracks between Camp/Chartres and Magazine/Decatur are also unclear. The arrangement shown is based on Pictures 46 and 65. |