Success with the Gulf Coast passenger rail trip last month continues to resound in federal departments and in the halls of Congress, a Southern Rail commissioner said Friday at a follow-up meeting on rail service in Ocean Springs.
Knox Ross, secretary for the commission and mayor of Pelahatchie, said the trip was in many ways valuable to the effort to restore passenger rail service along the northern Gulf.
"The crowds were there," Ross told the group. Another commissioner commented, "the flags got bigger at every stop."
The Amtrak passenger test trip went from New Orleans to Jacksonville, a route that existed before Katrina.