The Surface Transportation Board (STB) hosted a hearing to receive updates from Amtrak, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern, and the Port of Mobile on the timeline for restoring passenger rail service to the New Orleans – Mobile corridor along the Gulf Coast. And while the STB was clear that it still prefers a negotiated settlement between the parties, it was equally clear that it was unimpressed with the level of transparency and the speed of implementation on display—particularly given the hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding that has been directed to the project.