Amtrak's Mardi Gras Service passenger rail ensures trains will arrive just in time for New Orleans Saints football season.

Service, starting on Aug. 18, will connect New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., by train for the first time since Hurricane Katrina ...

Atmore remains disconnected as Mobile's port restricts train routes that would serve Alabama's rail heritage city. Its ...

Amtrak sits on the tracks at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Governor John Bel Edwards met with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and ...

Nat Read says he has ridden every mile on the Amtrak rail network, ... Maine, he says he's now ridden every mile of the Amtrak map. That's about 21,000 miles.

These 15 potential new Amtrak routes would add more than 23,000 rail miles to the system, serve more than 60 new metropolitan areas, and provide rail access to 39 million people that currently don ...

The maps are labeled as a “Proposed Network of Preferred Routes,” and the administration is taking public comments on them through March 8 at [email protected].

Amtrak provides a vital service to U.S. commuters; however, many states have limited access to its train network, and several states have no service at all.

Amtrak’s plan for the 140-mile route from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., is one of 39 new routes the railroad is pursuing as part of its plan announced last year to reach dozens more cities and towns.

Nat Read says he has ridden every mile on the Amtrak rail network, and he's never grown tired of looking at the country through a train window. Search Query Show Search. News. IPR News; ...

Massive changes to Amtrak and U.S. rail in general were announced in the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, which highlighted millions ...