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Tanuki

(14,933 posts)
Mon Oct 17, 2022, 01:34 AM Oct 2022

Help bring Amtrak to Tennessee!






(Proposed new routes under Pres. Biden's Infrastructure plan would expand Amtrak into Tennessee):

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/04/01/biden-infrastructure-plan-amtrak-vows-new-routes-american-jobs-plan/4834427001/

"How about a train ride from Nashville, Tennessee, to Atlanta, Phoenix to Southern California, or Louisville, Kentucky, to Indianapolis?

Amtrak late Wednesday released a proposed map of new and expanded service if it can land the $80 billion President Joe Biden proposed for the rail service as part of his American Jobs Plan, a massive $2 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's aging infrastructure.".....(more)


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Help bring Amtrak to Tennessee! (Original Post) Tanuki Oct 2022 OP
It is in every state in the south except Tennessee SouthernIrish Oct 2022 #1
As your map shows, the "City of New Orleans" currently provides service in western Tennessee. mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2022 #2
We should be able to travel from Nashville to Chicago! Lars39 Oct 2022 #3

SouthernIrish

(512 posts)
1. It is in every state in the south except Tennessee
Mon Oct 17, 2022, 05:48 AM
Oct 2022

Just another reason why our state leaders are horrible. They never want progress unless it lines their pockets.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,857 posts)
2. As your map shows, the "City of New Orleans" currently provides service in western Tennessee.
Mon Oct 17, 2022, 06:21 AM
Oct 2022

It makes stops in Memphis and in Newbern-Dyersburg.

I have ridden it from New Orleans to Memphis and from Memphis to Chicago.

https://www.railpassengers.org/site/assets/files/20928/city-of-new-orleans-illini-saluki.pdf

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