Amtrak service from Mobile to NOLA starts Aug. 18

Amtrak service from Mobile to NOLA starts Aug. 18

Amtrak has already starting selling tickets for its twice daily train service on the Mardi Gras Service line from Mobile to New Orleans that starts on Aug. 18. Tickets for the service are available at Amtrak.com.
Trains will leave Government St. in downtown Mobile (adjacent to the Outlaw Convention Center) at 6:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., and arrive in New Orleans around four hours later after making stops in Pascagoula, Biloxi, Gulfport and Bay St. Louis. Trains will leave New Orleans towards Mobile at 7:35 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Passengers can connect to Amtrak train service to cities across the country from New Orleans.
The three car trains will seat 135 passengers and include a dining car. Although Amtrack announced that fairs would be as low as $15, advance tickets to New Orleans were selling for $24 one-way on July 3, with discounts available for children, students, seniors and vets. Business class tickets were listed at $59.
“One word we can use to describe how we feel today, and that’s ‘finally,’” Amtrak Vice President Nicole Bucich said during a July 1 news conference announcing the service.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose and Amtrak President Roger Harris were among officials on hand during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new train station (pictured).
“With funding from infrastructure law, this project will reconnect the New Orleans and Mobile communities and provide a vital transportation link once again,” Buttigieg said.
Amtrak service in Mobile was suspended after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina destroyed rail infrastructure. The restored service and new station was funded in part with federal dollars from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.