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Archive -- Trains In The Valley Meeting - Greenfield, MA
Date
Thursday, February 1, 2018 6:00 PM Friday, January 12, 2018 7:30 PM
Location
Olver Transit Center 12 Olive Street Greenfield MA 01301
Trains In The Valley is pleased to be hosting the second in a series of rail related events in the Pioneer Valley.
Our first event of 2018 will be held at the Olver Transit Center — which also serves the Amtrak station stop in Greenfield.
Our guest speaker will be Carl Fowler, Owner/President of CHF Rail Consulting
Carl Fowler has been an advocate for passenger rail service for over 45 years. He ran a worldwide rail tour company for 33 years and is a long time member of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (now known as the Rail Passengers Association) and was for many years a member of its Board of Directors.
He made the original proposal to Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s administration for the daylight schedule that became the Vermonter, when Amtrak decided in 1994 to discontinue its overnight Montrealer service.
Carl will share some history of northern New England passenger service and offer insights for a much more positive future in our region, drawn from his experience with other corridors like the Cascades and Capitol routes on the West Coast.
Registration link (with further information)
https://trainsinthevalley.eventbrite.com
"The National Association of Railroad Passengers has done yeoman work over the years and in fact if it weren’t for NARP, I'd be surprised if Amtrak were still in possession of as a large a network as they have. So they've done good work, they're very good on the factual case."
Robert Gallamore, Director of Transportation Center at Northwestern University and former Federal Railroad Administration official, Director of Transportation Center at Northwestern University
November 17, 2005, on The Leonard Lopate Show (with guest host Chris Bannon), WNYC New York.