How the idea for Memphis-Atlanta passenger rail was resurrected
An Amtrak train departs 30th Street Station in Philadelphia Oct. 27, 2021, which is among the regions that got federal grants to expand passenger rail. Plans for a Memphis-to-Nashville route were combined with a Nashville-Chattanooga-Atlanta corridor for a $500,000 federal grant for passenger-service planning. (Matt Rourke/AP file)
Memphis wasn’t part of original expansion plans for passenger-rail service in and through Tennessee. But connecting Memphis to Nashville would also give travelers New Orleans and Chicago.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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