This story was updated at 3:11 p.m. with comments from Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission. Amtrak’s passenger rail service is set to make its return to Mobile, after one member of the Mobile City ...

The City of Mobile will be asked to support the operations of a twice-daily Amtrak service to New Orleans for three years and at a lump-sum cost of $3.048 million, according to a recent filing with ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - If all goes according to plan, Amtrak trains will begin rolling from here to New Orleans in October, but the passenger rail company’s own projections indicate the trains will ...

UPDATE (9:37 p.m.): Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson expressed his excitement regarding the new Amtrak passenger rail line’s name, which pays homage to both cities’ festive traditions. “As the birthplace ...

Blaring locomotive horns announce the presence of four new passenger trains every day at most of the 170 grade crossings on ...

It will be a Mardi Gras celebration every day across South Mississippi for many when Amtrak passenger train service returns to the Gulf Coast, connecting with New Orleans and Mobile. Amtrak Mardi Gras ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Some Mobile city leaders pushed back hard against Amtrak officials as the rail company hoped to inch closer to their plans to bring the passenger rail service back to Mobile for ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WKRG) – Amtrak is continuing preparation to restore passenger train service between New Orleans and Mobile with training along the Gulf Coast. About 40 first responders attended a ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - America’s passenger railroad today officially announced the new Amtrak Mardi Gras Service with twice-daily runs between New Orleans and Mobile with stops along the Mississippi ...

A plan to connect cities across the Gulf Coast with a new Amtrak line has instead divided states as they made their cases for and against the route before federal officials Tuesday. Mississippi wants ...