Youth Passenger Rail Citizenship Award

This award is given on occasion to students and young people who demonstrate exceptional leadership, initiative, or passion in making meaningful improvements in the train travel experience or in citizen advocacy for an expanded and improved passenger train network.

Year	Recipient	Reason
2006	Dr. Helen Hudson's Crawfordsville (Indiana) High School English Class	For cleaning, refurbishing and landscaping the Crawfordsville Amtrak station, and for promoting rail travel in their community with letters to the editor and public presentations.
1998	Trey Davis of Spartanburg, SC (a recent high-school graduate at the time)	For his tireless advocacy that resulted in the preservation of the 1904-built Amtrak station in downtown Spartanburg, which was damaged by a fire in 1996. Norfolk Southern was going to tear down the station, but Davis convinced the City Council to purchase and restore the depot, which they did by unanimous vote on Sept. 15, 1997.