Worth and Dallas are linked directly to New Orleans with day and overnight trains via Shreveport. Service is revived on the former Gulf Wind route between New Orleans and Jacksonville through Mobile and Pensacola. Norfolk becomService is revived on the former Gulf Wind route between New Orleans and Jacksonville through Mobile and Pensacola.es a new East Coast terminal with trains providing direct service to Cincinnati, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, Savannah, and Jacksonville. Memphis-Nashville service is inaugurated. Studies are begun to evaluate benefits of possible electrification of Northeast Corridor extensions to Albany, Springfield, Richmond, and Pittsburgh and on heavily trafficked corridors radiating from Chicago.
New station opens in Houston.
New long-distance trains are inaugurated linking Salt Lake City and Denver with Calgary. International services in collaboration with Via Rail Canada provide new rail links between New England cities and points in Quebec and New Brunswick. A daytime train is inaugurated between San Jose, Oakland, and Portland. Paul with Billings, Spokane, Portland, and Seattle. Direct Buffalo-Detroit service is reestablished across southern Ontario.