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April 29, 2015
American rail advocates frequently point to Europe and Asia for examples of what the United States’s future high-speed rail network can look like. This is for good reason: High-speed trains in France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and other countries offer travellers a welcome alternative to air and road travel. The lessons from abroad, however, don’t stop with high-speed intercity trains. U.S....
April 14, 2015
The Joint Budget Committee meets next week to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the budget. If the six-member Senate Budget Committee concurs with the House version then we finally will have the financial support of the State of Colorado – joining twelve SE Colorado communities, Kansas, Amtrak and BNSF at the table. In other words, it's crunch time! You've helped alr...
April 1, 2015
When NARP asked for your help to save trains in the past, we’ve asked you to help us with routes that some politicians (wrongly) claim are lightly travelled: the Hoosier State in Indiana, the Southwest Chief in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, and others come to mind. But today, we need your help to save one of the country’s most popular routes: the Cascades service between Eugene and Por...
March 25, 2015
For only 12 years -- between 1993 and 2005 -- Amtrak operated the nation’s only coast-to-coast passenger train. Running more than 2,700 miles between Orlando and Los Angeles, the Sunset Limitedconnected big cities including Orlando, New Orleans, Houston, Tucson and Los Angeles, with small towns such as Crestview, Florida, Sanderson, Texas, and Benson, Arizona. Unfortunately, 2005’s Hurrica...
March 24, 2015
NARP has received intelligence from local advocates that a bill to save the Southwest Chief will be heading to the Colorado Legislature's Senate Appropriations Committee very soon. We need you to contact key legislators today to help save Amtrak service in Colorado! As you may know, NARP has teamed up with ColoRail over the past several years to save passenger rail in Kansas, Colorado, and New M...