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The Red River Railroad also known as the Ralph Smith Smith Railroad and the Alexandria and Cheneyville Railroad was the first railroad in the United States built west of the Mississippi River.An area engineer planter and steamboat operator Ralph Smith Smith developed 16 miles (26 km) of 5 ft (1524 mm) gauge railroad line to connect Smith’s Landing at Lecompte Louisiana to the docks at Alexandria Louisiana enabling area settlers to have greater opportunity to get their crops to market.