Join the Effort to Restore Amtrak Service New Orleans-Florida!

Amtrak service between New Orleans and Orlando has not operated since immediately prior to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast. The tracks on which this important passenger service operated were severely damaged.

Today, the tracks, signals, and bridges have long since been repaired. However, the trains have not resumed.

The Florida cities of Pensacola, Chipley, Crestview, Tallahassee, and Lake City have been entirely without passenger rail service ever since. So too have been other important cities in our region, like Biloxi, MS and Mobile, AL.

FCRP urges you to join Mayors, City Councils, County Commissions, Chambers of Commerce, and citizens throughout the state of Florida and the Southeast who are speaking out on this issue.

Please call or write Florida's Senators, our Governor, and your Member of Congress concerning this issue today. Tell them that you want passenger train service between New Orleans and Florida restored-- NOW!

• Contact Governor Ron DeSantis
  
• Contact Senator Rick Scott
  
• Contact Senator Marco Rubio
  
• Locate and Contact Your Member of Congress
  

Read Letters and Resolutions from Elected Officials and Local Governments Expressing Support for New Orleans-Florida Amtrak Service Restoration:

Chipley                                                                

DeLand

Putnam County  

N Fla Rgnl Planning (Minutes)

Jacksonville  

New Orleans                                                           

Tallahassee                                                   

Okaloosa County                                                          

Gulf Breeze (Council Minutes)

Mississippi State Senate                          

Florida Alabama TPO 

DeFuniak Springs                            

Wakulla County

Palatka

Southern High Speed Rail Commission  

Amtrak's Gulf Coast Service Plan, a report to Congress on the subject compiled by Amtrak, details what Amtrak believes are the necessary investments which must be made before this service can operate again. 

The Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers and the National Association of Railroad Passengers--as well as other organizations--have taken exception to the impediments to service restoration which Amtrak has identified in this report, as well as the costs attached to them.