Amtrak to restart N.O. service sunday

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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October 5, 2005
N.O. passenger train service resumes Sunday

The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Amtrak plans to resume train service from New Orleans on Sunday, the first rail passenger service since Hurricane Katrina hit the region.

The City of New Orleans will begin running against to Memphis and Chicago, while the Crescent will resume its route to Atlanta and New York, Amtrak said today.

Amtrak said service on the Sunset Limited, a three-day-a-week train from Orlando, Fla., to Los Angeles will remain suspended. Amtrak said service would be resumed later on that route to Beaumont, Texas and Houston, but eastern service will not begin until at least 2006 because of extensive damage to tracks and bridges owned by CSX Transportation

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One has to wonder if they ever will resume the Sunset. The Amtrak system has for years had a Northeast US orientation and the assumption seems to be that all of us who live in the Southeast are just longing to go to NYP or DC in order to go west.
Sad.

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It has taken great effort to get the track in condition for the City of New Orleans to re-enter New Orleans. The class 1’s are to be commended.

However, the 40 miles of CSX track east out of NO hasnearly every bridge and culvert damaged. In many places it requires a complete roadbed rebuild. Early 2006 is an optimistic assumption for passanger servicable track on that stretch.

dd

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NOOOOOOOO!!!

ICMR

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Has the jail moved out?