The Louisiana Southern Railway was a railroad in southern Louisiana that eventually became part of the Southern Railway system. The Railway was originally owned jointly by Frank Emery Prewett and his half brother Granville Prewett both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it served the "truck" farms of the Delta Country about the time of the Great Depression.
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