[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Residents greeted an Amtrak train Friday afternoon as it passed through town on its rail inspection tour that could lead to passenger rail service returning to Live Oak. The crowds gathered beside the tracks at the old freight depot located on North Ohio Avenue (US 129 North) shortly before 4:30 p.m. Terri Burnett brought her…
Crowds gathered around the small station on 1000 Range St. in Madison on Friday, Feb. 19 to welcome the Amtrak train to the city. Support for the train was clearly displayed, as people buzzed about excitedly, sharing personal experiences from past on riding the train themselves before the service was ended after Hurricane Katrina destroyed…
Local officials are doing everything they can to restore passenger rail service to the Capital City, and that includes urging local residents to show up to greet Amtrak officials when a test train comes to town. Update 5:08 p.m.: Big crowds in Chipley and Tallahassee greeted Amtrak officials Friday in a show of support for…
You could say Jannette Manning Sisco has a familial connection to passenger train travel. The 69-year-old Tallahassee native used to ride Amtrak’s passenger trains more than 50 years ago. Men on her father’s side of the family worked as chefs and porters on the Boston to New Haven route. On Friday, as a buzzing Amtrak…
Local officials are asking the public to form a welcoming party for an Amtrak train passing through town on Friday. The city is lobbying Amtrak to consider Live Oak as a destination stop for its Pensacola to Jacksonville passenger line. The train, which departed New Orleans on Thursday, will be carrying officials from the city…
TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) — Tallahassee could see Amtrak passenger rail service back in the Capital City in four years. A national task force is working to bring back service to the Gulf Coast, after more than a decade. Congress passed a bill last year that created the task force to study the potential to resume…
Imagine hopping on a train in downtown Tallahassee to spend a weekend in New Orleans’ French Quarter, then coming back, twisting through the rural charm of the Gulf Coast. More than a decade has passed since thundering passenger locomotives stopped in Tallahassee or anywhere else east of New Orleans. But that could all change as…