Shreveport, Louisiana Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Infrastructure== ===Transportation=== {{Main|Transportation in Shreveport}} ====Highways and roads==== [[File:Shreveport September 2015 071 (Texas Street).jpg|thumb|Texas Street]] [[File:Shreveport September 2015 087 (Texas Avenue).jpg|thumb|Texas Avenue]] Shreveport's past reflects the need for mass transit and public roads. As far back as the 1870s, residents used [[mule]]-[[Horsecar|drawn street cars]] that were converted to electric motorized cars by 1890. [[Commuter rail]] systems in Shreveport flourished for many decades, and rail car lines extended out to rural areas. In 1930 trolleys and rail cars began to be replaced by buses, although motor buses did not finally replace all trolley service until the 1960s. In the 1960s, the [[Interstate Highway System]] came to the area with the construction of [[Interstate 20 in Louisiana|Interstate 20]]. The local public transportation provider, [[SporTran]], provides moderately extensive bus service throughout Shreveport and Bossier City. Sportran operates seven days a week on seventeen bus routes (five night routes) from 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 am, with no night service on Sunday. The highway system has a cross-hair and loop freeway structure similar to that of [[Texas]] cities like [[Houston]] and [[Dallas]]. The loop consists of the Outer Loop Freeway [[Interstate 220 (Louisiana)|Interstate 220]] on the north and the Inner Loop Freeway, [[Louisiana Highway 3132]], on the south, forming approximately an {{convert|8|mi|km|0|adj=mid|-diameter}} semi-loop around downtown. Another loop is formed by the Bert Kouns Industrial Loop (Louisiana Highway 526) and circles further south, bisecting [[Interstate 49 in Louisiana|Interstate 49]]. I-49 now extends north to [[Interstate 30]] in [[Arkansas]], though there is a gap in I-49 within Shreveport. Shreveport lies along the route of the proposed [[Interstate 69 in Louisiana|Interstate 69]] [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) superhighway that will link Canada, the U.S. industrial [[Midwest]], Texas, and [[Mexico]]. ====Airports==== Shreveport is served by two airports. The larger is [[Shreveport Regional Airport]] (SHV), established in 1952, and is served by [[Allegiant Air]], [[American Airlines]], [[Delta Air Lines]], and [[United Airlines]] (as United Express). The smaller airport, [[Shreveport Downtown Airport]] (DTN), was built in 1931 and is located north of the Downtown Business District along the Red River. It is currently a general aviation and reliever airport, but was originally Shreveport's commercial airport. ====Railroads==== The Shreveport Waterworks Museum contains the Shreveport Railroad Museum, commemorating area railroad history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shreveportwaterworks.org/railroad-museum/|title=Railroad Museum β Shreveport Water Works Museum β McNeil Street Pumping Station|website=shreveportwaterworks.org|access-date=July 3, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703220332/http://shreveportwaterworks.org/railroad-museum/|archive-date=July 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The city had been served until the 1960s by several passenger railroads, at different stations. *[[Shreveport Central Railroad Station|Central Station]] at 1025 Marshall Street served the [[Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad]] *Texas & Pacific Station at 104 Market Street served the [[Texas and Pacific Railway]]. Its last trains were unnamed successors to the ''[[Louisiana Eagle]]'' (Fort Worth-New Orleans) and the ''Louisiana Daylight.'' (El Paso-New Orleans)<ref name="chicagorailfan.com"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=Missouri Pacific Lines, Table 2 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways|publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=101 |issue=1 |date=June 1968}}</ref> *[[Shreveport Union Station|Union Station]] on Louisiana Avenue at Lake Street had the [[Illinois Central]] (the ''[[Southwestern Limited (IC train)|Southwestern Limited]]'' / ''Northeastern Limited'' -Shreveport-Meridian, MS), [[Kansas City Southern Railway]] (the ''[[Southern Belle (KCS train)|Southern Belle]]'' -Kansas City-New Orleans), [[St. Louis Southwestern Railway]] (the ''[[Lone Star (SSW train)|Lone Star]]'' -Dallas-Memphis) and the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]].<ref name="chicagorailfan.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagorailfan.com/stbaashv.html|title=THE GREAT UNION STATIONS|website=Chicagorailfan.com|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223053904/http://www.chicagorailfan.com/stbaashv.html|archive-date=February 23, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> ===Military installations=== [[File:Barksdale entrance IMG 1370.JPG|thumb|Entrance to Barksdale AFB]] [[Barksdale Air Force Base]] is located in [[Bossier Parish]] across the river from Shreveport, which annexed and donated the land for its construction in the 1920s. Named for pioneer army aviator Lt. [[Eugene Hoy Barksdale]] and originally called Barksdale Army Air Field, it opened in 1933 and became Barksdale Air Force Base in 1947. Headquartered here are the [[Air Force Global Strike Command]], 8th Air Force, 2d Bomb Wing, and 307th Wing. The primary aircraft housed here is the Boeing [[B-52 Stratofortress]]. In earlier years, the base was the home to other famous aircraft, including the [[B-47 Stratojet]]. Shreveport is home to the two [[108th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|108th Cavalry]] Squadrons, the reconnaissance element of the [[256th Infantry Brigade]]. Three of the squadron's four cavalry troops are located at 400 East Stoner Avenue in a historic armory known as "Fort Humbug". It got the name due to the Confederate Army burning logs to look like cannons and placing them along the Red River. This caused Union ironclad ships sailing north on the Red River to be tricked into turning back south.<ref>Brock, Eric J.: ''Eric Brock's Shreveport''. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Co., 2001</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page