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"Amtrak, Nagin Argue Over Rescue Train"

September 14th, 2005
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On Sunday, Ray Nagin commented on Amtrak's claim that they could have evacuated several hundred people just before the storm hit. From this:
"I don't know where that's coming from," [Ray Nagin] told NBC's "Meet the Press." "Amtrak never contacted me to make that offer. As a matter of fact, we checked the Amtrak lines for […]

Amtrak could have evacuated several hundred

September 13th, 2005
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From "The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos":
…while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred […]