Subject: Re: Follow Up Meeting with Amtrak
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Parola" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Michael Sweeney" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Joan Peugh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:09:42 -0400

Thanks, John.  Glad it went well. We'll get you those names.  (Copied
Hunter with his right email.)

Eric D. Schwerin
[email-masked]

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:53 AM, John Parola <[email-masked]> wrote:

  Hunter & Eric:  We had a very good meeting with Joe and Brian.  We talked
about a number of subjects as follows and in no priority order.

·         HNTB wanted to help Amtrak, we personally wanted to help Amtrak
and that is our main reason for being here

·         Gateway and the challenges

·         The funding challenges for Amtrak

·         Engineering roadbed challenges

·         Amtrak a national network

·         The Southwest Chief Issue (Which we understand was worked out
with BN)

·         How Amtrak was having to have to use revenues from the NEC to
support long distance trains

·         The Tunnel insurance status

·         HNTB’s project performance

·         The Philadelphia Derailment

·         Procurement utilizing QBS selection

·         And a few additional general topics

Joe was engaged and quite open and good to talk to. He said if we could
help him with the rural senators / congressman in states where the long
distance trains were running and if they could shift their position on
Amtrak it could potentially free up $300 Million that he was going to have
to use from the NEC for their continued operation.  He mentioned one name
Senator Hovan I believe from North Dakota.  I know there are others and if
you can identify the specific individuals where we could help to get the
Amtrak message out to and the importance of the NEC as an economic engine
for the country and more that would be very useful for us as we work across
the country.  My request to you is to please provide the names and states
where we could possibly help.

Lastly, it was good to see you and thank you for meeting with us and for
helping to set up this meeting.

Take Care, John

John J. Parola

Sr. Vice President, Northeast Division

*HNTB Corporation*

5 Penn Plaza Plaza, 6th Floor

New York, NY 10001

Direct (212) 294-7536 or

(215) 282-1120

Cell (267) 934-1566

Email:[email-masked]

www.hntb.com

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