Passenger trains could soon be running again on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama, nearly two decades after service was knocked out by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The City Council in Mobile voted Tuesday to approve more than $3 million in funding for the service for the next three years, matching identical commitments from Mississippi and Louisiana. (The city was on the hook due to Alabama laws that prevent the state from contributing.) Amtrak is expected to run two trains each day between Mobile and New Orleans, with stops in the coastal Mississippi towns of Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Pascagoula and Biloxi, starting next year.