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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Amtrak has a new service making for a more convenient trip for riders. Starting Aug.18, customers will now have an option to hop on the new Amtrak Mardi Gras Service. This ...

Erika Goldring/Getty The Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club's 2025 Zulu Parade on Mardi Gras Day on March 4, 2025 in New Orleans.

It’s not the traditional season for the famed celebration, but a new Mardi Gras is coming to six cities and towns along the Gulf Coast twice a day, starting August 18. This version will be Amtrak’s ...

Starting Aug.18, customers will now have an option to hop on the new Amtrak Mardi Gras Service. This is a new, twice-daily intercity train service traveling between Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans.

The Mardi Gras Service, starting on Aug. 18, will connect New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., by train for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Alabama welcomes Amtrak's Mardi Gras Route. When will it launch first trains to New Orleans?

The Mardi Gras Service will run between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The new rail route will run twice daily with morning and evening departures from both cities.

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

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