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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TwinStarRocket: [QB] From http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS0110/50902030/1260 September 2, 2005 Amtrak to help evacuate hurricane victims By Sylvain Metz smetz@clarionledger.com Amtrak will begin evacuating stranded New Orleans residents tonight. The company will dispatch a passenger train out of Baton Rouge, La., about 7 p.m to New Orleans. From there, the service will pick up residents to Lafayette, La., where they will then be picked up by buses and ferried to varied destinations, said Marcus Mason, senior director for government affairs for Amtrak, Washington, D.C. If all goes accordingly, the first train should pull out of New Orleans about midnight, he said. The train will run around the clock, with a second train to join the operation in the next couple of days. It's coming from the West Coast, Mason said. Amtrak will use freight lines owned and operated by Union Pacific Railroad, Burlington Northern SantaFe Railway and Canadian National/Illinois Central Railroad. Armed security will be on hand to provide for an orderly evacuation, he said. "I've heard some people (compare this) to the last helicopter out of Saigon and the last train out of Bangladesh," Mason said. "They are really hurting and need some assistance," he said. Amtrak President David Gunn came up with the idea two days ago, according to Meridian Mayor John Robert Smith, former chairman of Amtrak. Smith then presented that plan to U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Bill Gotshall, chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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