A rendering of the future platform for Amtrak in downtown Mobile is displayed during a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in downtown Mobile, Ala., to commence the work needed before Amtrak service can restart sometime in early 2025 along the Gulf Coast connecting Mobile to New Orleans. John Sharp

The new platform, along with the added track capacity, will support an additional Downeaster train that will operate between Brunswick and Wells.

Elon Musk said Wednesday that he wants to privatize the U.S. Postal Service and Amtrak, according to reports from multiple news outlets. And as the most powerful oligarch in the U.S.—a man who’s been given the chance to unilaterally dismantle whatever he likes under the guise of a pseudo-government agency called DOGE—the billionaire may get his wish soon.

A pedestrian was killed Saturday morning after she was struck by an Amtrak train in Fresno. Officers responded to Fruit Avenue, near Ashlan Avenue after receiving a call at 10:30 a.m. of a train colliding with a pedestrian. Officers located a woman who had been struck and killed by a train.

Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Musk said the state of passenger rail in the US is "embarrassing."