Amtrak streamed a railroad online to show how empty it is amidst a battle over the route – Insider

On Wednesday, Amtrak joined Twitch to stream an empty railroad in Mississippi. The company is fighting to restart passenger service between Mobile and New Orleans. Freight companies argue that the service would “unreasonably impair” their operations. Loading Something is loading. At Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, there’s a set of railroad tracks used by freight trains. On Wednesday, Amtrak livestreamed the steel tracks on Twitch.Amtrak’s goal was to show how deserted the railroad is.It’s the company’s latest move in an ongoing fight to restart passenger service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana, which stopped after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to Vice. CSX and Norfolk Southern are involved in the dispute with Amtrak. The freight-train companies say the passenger service’s plan to add four trains, or two round-trip trains, a day to the route without making infrastructure improvements would impair their operations, as Roll Call reported.  According to Twitch, over 1,300 people tuned into Amtrak’s stream titled “CSX’s Very Busy Gulf Coast Corridor.”—Amtrak Connects US (@AmtrakConnects) February 14, 2022″We thought about putting up a live video feed to answer the question that people keep bringing up: How busy is the railroad anyway?” a spokesperson for Amtrak told Insider. The spokesperson said that…
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