‘Milestone day’: Mobile board approves Amtrak project; more work before Gulf Coast line re-start

Amtrak

The Amtrak inspection train pulls into downtown Mobile in February 2016. The location is almost the same spot where Amtrak will have its train depot constructed to support the Gulf Coast service. (photo courtesy of Marc Glucksman/Amtrak)

For the first time in over four years, Amtrak went before a Mobile public body requesting support for its Gulf Coast passenger rail project.

It went about as good as Amtrak officials could have hoped.

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