Classic route
Mardi Gras Service
New Orleans → Mobile · United States
The Gulf Coast’s first passenger trains since Hurricane Katrina: from August 2025 two a day have run from New Orleans along the Mississippi shore through Bay St. Louis, Gulfport and Biloxi to Mobile.
- Distance
- 233 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 43 min
- Average speed
- 63 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmNew Orleans +3
- 91 kmBay Saint Louis
- 116 kmGulfport
- 136 kmBiloxi
- 168 kmPascagoula
- 233 kmMobile
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19382279: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Amtrak: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the Amtrak Mardi Gras Service to Mobile Amtrak Sta
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Mardi Gras Service?
The Mardi Gras Service runs 233 km from New Orleans to Mobile.
How long does the Mardi Gras Service take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 3 h 43 min for the 233 km. That is an average of 63 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Mardi Gras Service?
Amtrak, with Siemens Charger + Amfleet coaches.
How old is the Mardi Gras Service?
The line has been in service since 2025. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
How often does the Mardi Gras Service run?
2× daily each way.
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