Nola to BR Passenger train

yea no chance

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Passenger trains need to travel between 69 and 78 miles per hour. The Bonne Carre spillway, alone, would need around $62 million of improvements to make those types of speeds possible.

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This bird brain idea seems to pop up every 6 months or so. The population of each city does not make it feasible.
It's too expensive to operate.
The BR crowd wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have a SUV to hop into parked 25 feet from where the train depot is located.

The KCS owns the tracks and I doubt they would be interested in passenger trains. But if it happens they could let CATS run it.

Have they ever come up with estimated time it would take to go from downtown BR(assuming that is the last stop) and downtown NOLA?

The cost is quite a bit, but I think it could pay for itself when you factor in the economic benefits something like this could bring to the table.

One real problem lies in BR's mass transit system. If I get off the train in New Orleans, there are cabs, buses, and streetcars that can take me anywhere in the city in a decent time frame. If I get off the train in Baton Rouge at the proposed Government Street station, where the hell am I going to go and how? shite, it's easy to build a track between here and BR. It's harder to make a system as broken as CATS work properly.

being able to hop on a train to New Orleans for Mardi Gras/Jazzfest/Voodoo Fest/Saints game/whatever and get drunk and not have to worry about parking or driving back would be sweet

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One real problem lies in BR's mass transit system. If I get off the train in New Orleans, there are cabs, buses, and streetcars that can take me anywhere in the city in a decent time frame. If I get off the train in Baton Rouge at the proposed Government Street station, where the hell am I going to go and how? shite, it's easy to build a track between here and BR. It's harder to make a system as broken as CATS work properly.

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Good point, although I don't think your problem would be getting a cab at the government station. It is likely cabs would adapt and camp out there because of the obvious demand.

The issue would be when you took a cab to a different part of the city and would have to wait an hour for another to pick you up

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Entire cities have been built around reliable commuter rail service in places like Chicago, New York and Philadelphia. Linking New Orleans and Baton Rouge and making them one job market would have enormous economic implications for South Louisiana. Too bad our government officials (that means you Booby Jingles) think so small.

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These trains(and cities using your logic) were built when traveling by car was less economical and didn't make as much practicable sense.

Would be nice but ain't gonna happen.

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These trains(and cities using your logic) were built when traveling by car was less economical and didn't make as much practicable sense.

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You realize, there was once passenger train service between NO and BR