Mobile has seen 26,174 riders board the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service in just under seven months, and the city is outperforming New Orleans on a per‑capita basis among the two largest anchors of the coastal route.
Since the service launched on August 18, Mobile is averaging roughly 130 boardings per 1,000 residents. That’s roughly the equivalent of about 13% of the city’s population hopping on an Amtrak train — or one boarding for every seven to eight Mobilians.
“At the end of the day, not everyone is riding just to New Orleans,” said David Clark, president & CEO of Visit Mobile and a member of the Southern Rail Commission, which long pushed for restoring passenger rail along the Gulf Coast…