The new Mardi Gras Service runs from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., and lets visitors explore the Gulf Coast’s pleasantly walkable waterfront towns without a car.

Amtrak – the US’s national railway – launched the new service in the Deep South in August 2025 and it has already caught the interest of locals. A shop worker and Uber driver tell me they have never ...

The tragedies have killed three people in Mississippi, where transportation officials say they’re determined to improve crossing safety.

New mask requirements and updated marching club rules seek to protect tradition and help struggling krewes ahead of Carnival ...

More than 46,000 customers have ridden Amtrak’s Mardi Gras Service trains on the twice-daily round trips across Coastal ...

Surveillance video captured a dramatic crash in Irvington, Alabama, where an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck, narrowly ...

The FRA's Railroad Safety Board has approved a waiver allowing railroads to expand the field testing of automated track ...

The route’s early success has raised hope for some advocates of regional train travel. See how many people have taken the ...