The Gulf Breeze was a daily passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Mobile, Alabama, as a section of the Crescent. Southbound, the Gulf Breeze split from the Crescent in Birmingham to serve an additional seven stations in Alabama on a 275-mile (443 km) route south to Mobile. The service ran from 1989 until 1995.
The Gulf Breeze at Montgomery in June 1990
The Gulf Breeze at Montgomery in March 1995, days before being discontinued
The Crescent is a daily long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and New Orleans. The 1,377-mile (2,216 km) route connects the Northeast to the Gulf Coast via the Appalachian Piedmont, with major stops in Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Birmingham, Alabama.
The Crescent crossing the Pearl River near Picayune, Mississippi, in March 2010
Southern Railway's Southern Crescent at Peachtree station on January 21, 1971
The Amtrak Crescent dining car in 2019