Amtrak seeks funding to study Mississippi-to-Texas I-20 train route

Amtrak and the Southern Rail Fee say they’ll apply for federal funds to review passenger rail service between Meridian, Mississippi, and Dallas and Fort Value in Texas.

The hall alongside Interstate 20 would serve cities together with Jackson in Mississippi and Monroe and Shreveport in Louisiana. Amtrak stated in a information launch that it might be a separate part of its Crescent prepare, which now runs between New York and New Orleans, that means vacationers might go on to Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and New York.

Amtrak stated it might search cash from final 12 months’s congressional infrastructure legislation for the examine.

“This utility is step one in figuring out the feasibility of this idea and the advantages and challenges, together with federal funding commitments, of increasing Amtrak service to the I-20 route,” Amtrak Community Improvement Vice President Nicole Bucich stated in a press release.

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The Canadian Pacific Railway is within the course of of shopping for the Kansas Metropolis Southern Railway, which partly owns tracks between Meridian and Shreveport. The brand new proprietor has agreed on the examine with Amtrak, though co-owner Norfolk Southern Railway would additionally must approve. If the examine discovered service was warranted, Amtrak would then search federal cash to pay for startup prices.

“This has the potential to be the primary new Amtrak service of its form in additional than 25 years and it might are available an space that has lengthy been underserved by passenger rail,” Southern Rail Fee Chairman Knox Ross stated in a press release.

The Amtrak settlement would additionally permit for service between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The passenger railroad is within the closing phases of planning one other new route between New Orleans and Cell, Alabama.