UPDATE (7:15 p.m.): — Mobile saw the arrival of 137 new tourists on Monday morning as the Mardi Gras Amtrak line arrived for the first time in years. The passengers weren’t just from New Orleans.

UPDATE (Jan. 9, 2:14 p.m.): The Mobile Police Department has concluded there were no criminal findings in the death of three men who were killed by a train late Tuesday night. According to an MPD ...

Minutes before the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service was scheduled to depart Mobile at 6:30 a.m. Monday, a CSX freight train rolled up alongside the passenger train and stopped. It was followed shortly by ...

It’s been previewed and promised for years and now, finally, Amtrak passenger trains are ready to roll across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, from New Orleans to Mobile. “This is it,” Knox Ross, chairman ...

UPDATE (9:15 p.m.): A 6-0 city council vote pushed the Gulf Coast passenger train one step closer to the Port City. “I don’t think anyone really would’ve predicted a couple weeks ago that we would ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Amtrak passenger rail service from Mobile to New Orleans starts in just about a month and questions remain on how this potential new influx of tourists could impact local ...

WHAT HAPPENS LATER ON TONIGHT. ALSO NEW AT NOON. WE NOW KNOW WHEN PASSENGERS WILL BE ABLE TO START USING THE LONG AWAITED AMTRAK SERVICE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO MOBILE, ALABAMA. THIS IS. LEADERS ARE ...

It’s been 43 days since the Mobile City Council gave the “All Aboard!” for a long-stalled and debated Amtrak project connecting the Alabama coastal city with New Orleans. Hopes were high for Amtrak’s ...

I’m elated and relieved to hear that Mobile, Alabama, has finally come to its senses and allowed a passenger train to run again between our two cities. I was a junior in high school when Amtrak last ...

People stopped to watch as we swiftly zoomed along. Some at the patio bars in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, waved gleefully, as did the guys on fishing boats angling by the bridge. Maybe this is what it ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Contractors are doing preliminary work on a new passenger train stop downtown, but there still is no definitive timeline on when the project will be complete. A federal grant is ...