Research by Arthur Hardy, a New Orleans-based Mardi Gras historian, connects the advertising of visiting Mardi Gras via train to 1873, the second year of the city’s Rex parade, which was founded ...

But at least now it knows the name for the trains between Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans. The two daily round trips will be known as Amtrak Mardi Gras Service, the company announced today.

The train was designed by Mardi Gras Decorators in Slidell. The plan is to have it become a major part of the parade that is growing in popularity, with 20 floats and 600 members this year.

This “Mardi Gras” will be an Amtrak train, and it will run twice a day in both directions, all year round! Amtrak announced the name for its new Gulf Coast service on April 24. It’s a fitting name for ...

Amtrak’s new route, the Mardi Gras Service, is launching in New Orleans this summer, bringing train travel back to the scenic Gulf Coast for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Starting in summer 2025, the new state-sponsored Amtrak Mardi Gras Service will offer train travelers morning and evening departures from both cities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Both New Orleans ...

Amtrak said it is adding a new route that will connect the Gulf Coast to New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.The new, twice-daily Amtrak "Mardi Gras Service" will offer morning and evening departures from ...

Amtrak Mardi Gras Service route (Amtrak / FOX10 News). Passenger rail service to Mobile ended in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina damaged railroad tracks along the Gulf Coast.

A train crashed into a pickup truck parked on railroad tracks near the Titans Mardi Gras parade on Friday evening, Slidell police said. No one was injured, but police arrested the truck's owner ...

MOBILE, Ala. - Horses and riders participated in the 33rd annual Mardi Gras Mounted School to train for Mardi Gras parades and other similar events.Horses and riders were lined up at Ladd-Peebles ...