Homes weren’t the only victims of Hurricane Katrina—New Orleans’ infrastructure was heavily devastated as well. One of these casualties is the New Orleans-Orlando rail line, a vital route that connects the two cities.
However, according to Amtrak and other officials, there are plans to reconnect the daily service passenger train more than a decade after Katrina damaged the railroad tracks. This announcement gives further momentum on the plans to resurrect the line. In 2015, Congress authorized a $500,000 study on the best way to re-launch the line.
The study found that it made the most economic sense if Amtrak’s trains traveled to Orlando daily, while making pit stops at Mobile, AL, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville, FL. Read more from this blog: http://bit.ly/2p62Wiu
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