New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama will once again be just a train ride apart soon. A new line connecting the two cities — the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service — will begin service August 18, officials with the ...

Tickets are now on sale for a train service between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, that has been revived 20 years after it was halted by Hurricane Katrina. The new, twice-daily Amtrak Mardi Gras ...

Chelsea Brasted (pictured) and Carlie Kollath Wells toured the new Amtrak train this month in New Orleans. These are the coach seats. Image: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios Amtrak trains will start rolling ...

When Amtrak’s long-anticipated Mardi Gras Service begins rolling between Mobile and New Orleans on Aug. 18, passengers can expect a 3.5-hour trip—with potential for an even quicker journey down the ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX) - Amtrak Mardi Gras Service will begin on Monday, August 18, and Coast businesses are preparing for a potential boom in foot traffic. The passenger rail service will run ...

The Rhymer family’s Saturday outing at the Exploreum took an unexpected turn when the sound of a train whistle caught their attention. “Completely unplanned,” Preston Rhymer of Robertsdale said with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new Amtrak line will start services in the Gulf Coast this summer. The rail service has announced plans to restore regional ...

A new Amtrak line will start services in the Gulf Coast in just a few days. The rail service is restoring regional passenger routes. This one connects New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mobile, Alabama. It ...

NEW ORLEANS — Amtrak passenger rail service returns to the Gulf Coast with the launch of the Mardi Gras line connecting New Orleans, Biloxi, and Mobile. The inaugural trip departed Saturday morning ...

Bands played and crowds cheered as the first Amtrak train in more than a decade rolled up to stations in South Mississippi. That was 2016 and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker recalls, “It was a massive crowd at ...