 One was less demand for short distance rail passenger service with expansion of electric streetcar routes and growth in automobile ownership.The final straw, however, was the closing of the Milneburg resorts while a land reclamation project dredged earth into the shallows of lake Pontchartrain there in the late 1920s and early 1930s.The last passenger service of the line was on March 15, 1932, the line having been in business for over a century.