Yesterday,I got a copy of Amtrak's 2007 Spring Timetable. On the page with the Sunset Limited timetable,it displayed the stops east of New Orleans with the notation about damage from Katrina. If Amtrak plans to kill the eastern portion of the Sunset,why even have the eastern stops listed along with the Katrina notation.
just picked a copy here in austin, and immediately looked to see if the note on service east of NOL on the sunset mentioned katrina. but my copy doesn't say anything about katrina at all; in fact, here is what it says:
"the sunset limited service between orlando and new orleans has been suspended. future service has not been determined."
it mentions this on page 90 (the schedule for the sunset) and on page 5. if this is so, it would appear amtrak is publicly eschewing the katrina excuse outright, and has decided to be upfront about it not being certain service will be resumed at all. mike: does your copy still mention 'infrastructure damage' from katrina? if so, i wonder if there are two printings of the timetable.
-- eliyahu
austin, tx