Trains 58/59 19/20 returing to NOL

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

The word is these are tentive dates the CNOL will return to NOL on Oct 1st 2005.The Crescent will return on Oct 8 2005 this could all change but this is the word as im typing this.

 

[AlanB]

Cool. B) And thanks for the update, Matt.

Any word on the Sunset at least runing as far as NOL. I can't imagine that it's going to ORL for a while, but at least getting to NOL would be a step in the right direction.

 

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

Cool. B) And thanks for the update, Matt.
Any word on the Sunset at least runing as far as NOL. I can't imagine that it's going to ORL for a while, but at least getting to NOL would be a step in the right direction.

I haven't heard anything but i will find out tomarrow since i have been floating around between Hammond LA and Merdian MS to see how the trains have been handled and im in Meridian MS right now i will keep you all informed of any changes or updates.

 

[AmtrakWPK]

Our church has sent two mission teams to MS so far. One is still there. The other one just returned, and spoke of houses literally sitting on the railroad tracks in places, and stuff like that, and they were at places like Bay St. Louis, and along I-10, so I suspect at least some of those were the tracks the Sunset uses (well, the tracks they used to use and may sometime in the future use.....) Some of the stories our people were recounting this morning were pretty horrendous as to the destruction they saw. Whole areas where pilings and concrete slabs were the only thing left to indicate that houses had been there. Or areas where it looked like a huge bulldozer had just turned whole neighborhoods into piles of broken building materials. They also had some stories of FEMA and Red Cross NON-assistance and bureaucratic indifference and ignorance that really got the rest of us thoroughly steamed. The churches were the ones that were and are collectively providing relief and assistance, systematically, and with volunteers from all over the country, in the small and medium-sized towns and communities throughout in that area.

 

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

The CSXT line that runs east out of NOL is going to be out of service for at least a year to a year and a half.

 

[AMTRAK-P42]

Found this pic of NS repairing the Ponchatrain bridge (looks a whole lot different then before!)

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=119757