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Tanuki

(15,309 posts) Mon Oct 17, 2022, 12:34 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

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1. It is in every state in the south except Tennessee
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Mon Oct 17, 2022, 04:48 AM
Oct 2022

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

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mahatmakanejeeves

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2. As your map shows, the "City of New Orleans" currently provides service in western Tennessee.
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Mon Oct 17, 2022, 05:21 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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