Two Crescent City RR horsecars, on the S. Peters or Tchoupitoulas* lines,
around 1890, approach Magazine Street on their way to Tchoupitoulas Street.
Between Camp/Chartres and Magazine/Decatur, there were either four or five horsecar
tracks, and between Magazine/Decatur and Peters, there seem to have been six.
The track in the foreground, turning from Magazine into Canal Street, was
for the use of the Magazine and Prytania lines, approaching their turntable
on the river side of the Clay statue at St. Charles/Royal Streets.
These lines departed Canal Street on Camp Street, one block out from here.
In the right foreground, we see a jog in the outer track; apparently, the outer
tracks had to be further apart between Magazine/Decatur and Peters, to allow for
four other tracks between them.
*Pronounced “chop-i-too-lus”.