OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) — A temporary Amtrak stop for the Peter Anderson Festival marked the first time a passenger train has stopped in Ocean Springs since 1965.
Thousands of people filled downtown Ocean Springs for the 48th annual festival, one of the state’s biggest. For hundreds of festivalgoers, the stop offered a new way to get there.
First passenger stop in decades
Ocean Springs officials popped confetti as riders stepped off the train. In all, 175 people got off the train in the heart of the festivities.
Jessi Zuppardo and her family came from New Orleans…