Louisville Amtrak to Chicago or DC

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/loc ... 2207bbe93b

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Amtrak is one step closer to connecting Louisville to other major cities by train.

The initial plan was released in 2021, a new line would connect the River City to Indianapolis with a stop in Jeffersonville. From there, the routes go to Chicago or Washington D.C. which connect to other major cities.

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This is a feasibility study being funded by the Biden’s administration. Pennies on the dollars it would take to initiate any service. Jeffersonvile is a smaller city in Indiana across the rather large Ohio River from Louisville. I do not see Kentucky paying for a train that does not run one inch in Kentucky, no matter how much Louisville would like it. I do not see Indiana paying for a train to almost reach downtown Louisville. So where will the state funding subsidies come from?

electricron wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 4:08 pmSo where will the state funding subsidies come from?

The City or a regional transit authority can commit to the local subsidy. That's how Mobile is approaching New Orleans - Mobile (State of Alabama will not subsidize it).

The Kentucky Cardinal was an oddball - one of the short mixed trains of the Warrington era, two or three MHCs
or ExpressTrak boxcars with a coach. I recall reading something about serving the UPS Worldport was one motive
but were their any other major commercial customers in Louisville?

The platform still exists, a stub with reverse move.