The Amtrak inspection train pulls into downtown Mobile in February 2016.(photo courtesy of Marc Glucksman/Amtrak)
It’s been almost seven years since former Alabama State Port Authority CEO Jimmy Lyons questioned the financial sense of bringing Amtrak back to the Alabama Gulf Coast, while openly raising questions on whether anyone would take a train to Mobile.
Lyons said at the time that he could see coastal Alabama riders traveling by train on weekends to Biloxi or New Orleans. But tourists coming to Mobile? Unlikely, he said.
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