Merger brings New Orleans-Baton Rouge passenger rail closer to reality

An Amtrak passenger train (iStock)

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber, GNO Inc., and the SOLA Super Region Committee are calling Wednesday’s approval of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern merger the “most important step forward” for creating the long-proposed passenger rail link between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. 


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