Baton Rouge, Louisiana

===Rail===
Three major railroads, [[Canadian Pacific Kansas City]], [[Union Pacific]], and [[Canadian National]] provide railroad freight service to Baton Rouge.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bnsf.com/customers/pdf/maps/carload_map.pdf |title=BNSF Railway System Map |publisher=BNSF Corp |access-date=October 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923193015/http://www.bnsf.com/customers/pdf/maps/carload_map.pdf |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The [[Baton Rouge station|Yazoo and Mississippi Valley station]] had passenger service until the mid-1960s. The Kansas City Southern depot hosted the ''[[Southern Belle (KCS train)|Southern Belle]],'' the final train to serve the city, until 1969.<ref>Carter, Thad Hills (2009). Kansas City Southern Railway. Images of Rail. (Reprint of an article by Philip Moseley originally published in the May 1986 issue of Arkansas Railroader). Charleston, SC; Chicago, IL; Portsmouth, NH; San Francisco, CA: Arcadia Publishing. p. 60. {{ISBN|978-0-7385-6001-4}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.louisianapoliticalmuseum.com/bell.php| title=The Southern Belle| work=Louisiana Political Museum| access-date=November 2, 2013 }}</ref> Since 2006, Baton Rouge and New Orleans leaders as well as the state government have been pushing to secure funding for a new high-speed rail passenger line between [[downtown Baton Rouge]] and downtown New Orleans, with several stops in between.<ref>{{cite news |agency=The Associated Press |url = http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/louisiana_to_seek_new_orleansb.html |title = Louisiana to seek New Orleans-Baton Rouge passenger rail line from federal stimulus pot that Jindal called wasteful |website = NOLA.com |access-date=April 27, 2011 |archive-url= http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090702060637/http%3A//www%2Enola%2Ecom/news/index%2Essf/2009/02/louisiana_to_seek_new_orleansb%2Ehtml |archive-date= July 2, 2009 |url-status= live}}</ref> A new [[New Orleans–Baton Rouge passenger rail]] service was included as part of the "Amtrak Connects US" expansion vision.<ref>{{cite news |title=Amtrak hopes to add new line from Baton Rouge to New Orleans |url=https://www.klfy.com/louisiana/amtrak-to-add-new-line-from-baton-rouge-to-new-orleans/ |access-date=11 June 2022 |work=KLFY.com |date=5 April 2021}}</ref>