Next Month's First Mobile-To-NOLA Amtrak Train Already Sold Out

The first Amtrak passenger train from Mobile, Alabama, to New Orleans on August 18 is already sold out.

The morning train will leave Mobile at 6:30 a.m. and reach New Orleans about a quarter after 10.

The first train headed the other direction, which leaves New Orleans at 7:35 a.m. the same day, is also sold out.

Amtrak passenger service is returning to the Gulf Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.