The New Orleans region will see major travel expansions in 2026, with new cruise capacity at the Port of New Orleans, the ...

Amtrak's Mardi Gras service, running twice daily between New Orleans and Mobile, was inaugurated with Mardi Gras-themed celebrations at each stop. The service, restored after a 20-year hiatus ...

The service will feature intercity passenger trains twice-daily between Mobile and New Orleans, with four stops along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Passengers disembark the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service in Mobile, Alabama at the end of its inaugural run from New Orleans on August 17, 2025. The route, which makes four stops in coastal Mississippi, was ...

UPDATE 12:14 PM: The east-bound train that left New Orleans this morning arrived in Mobile just before noon. A cheering crowd of people, including members of Visit Mobile and local businesses, was ...

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 ...

Among the first speakers was the mayor. On the stage at the Union Passenger Station Terminal Aug. 16 were various dignitaries who had come to celebrate the inaugural run of the Mardi Gras Service, a ...

NOW. WE START WITH THIS BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. FIRST RESPONDERS ARE ON THE SCENE OF A CRASH INVOLVING THE AMTRAK MARDI GRAS MARDI GRAS MARDI GRAS SERVICE TRAIN. THAT’S RIGHT. THIS HAPPENED IN PASS ...