Amtrak says the average daily Mardi Gras service ridership in the first 15 days was 447 passengers, filling on average 65 percent of seats with 75 percent occupancy during peak times. Between August ...

The passenger rail service between New Orleans and Mobile made its inaugural run Saturday, featuring jazz bands, beads and MoonPies at stations along the route before public service begins Monday.

Mobile and New Orleans may be the beginning and end of the new Amtrak route, but the new Mardi Gras Service is seen as a big boost for those stops in between. That point was made by a woman arriving ...