Subject: Railroad Passengers June Newsletter
From: "Ross Capon" <[email-masked]>
To: "Ross Capon" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:20:05 -0400

To our friends at Amtrak:

Our June newsletter is attached. The contents are listed below.

--Ross B. Capon, President & CEO
National Association of Railroad Passengers
505 Capitol Court NE, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20002-7706
202-408-8362 (mobile 301-385-6438)
www.narprail.org<http://www.narprail.org>

Page One-"Train to Maine": 10 Years and Growing; Brunswick, Freeport Development Blossoms Ahead of Route Extension
--2013 Appropriations: House subcommittee approves funding bill June 7 - further update: the full committee approved the bill June 19 with no changes to the items discussed in our article

Page Two-TransForm, California's largest transportation nonprofit, supports high speed rail.
--USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll suggests you can get the results you want by asking the questions you want
--California HSR updates

Page Three-New Amtrak Maintenance Bases near Miami and in Los Angeles and Seattle offer vastly improved work environments
--Listing of new members of NARP's volunteer Council of Representatives

Page Four-Battle Creek's rebuilt intermodal station opens
--NARP Welcomes Volunteer Interns, who come from Arizona, Maryland, Vancouver BC, and Shandong, China
--Correction: the new Osage River bridge near Jefferson City makes the Amtrak/UP route double-track between St. Louis and Jefferson City (not all the way to KC as we reported last issue)

Page Five-Patricia Quinn: Downeaster "Track Star"

Page Six-President's Corner: Report on annual meeting of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission, at which NARP's Ross Capon spoke
--Report on National Cooperative Rail Research Program Oversight Committee's first meeting and results - NARP Pres. Capon is a member