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Archive -- RailPAC/NARP Joint Membership Meeting
Date
Saturday, September 24, 2016 Monday, June 6, 2016
Location
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Saturday – September 24, 2016
California State Railroad Museum
AM
9:30 Open for Registration
Coffee and Pastries
10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Paul Dyson, President, RailPAC
Peter LeCody, Chair, NARP
Jim Mathews, President, NARP
11:00 Keynote Address
Roger Dickinson, Former Assembly Member, Sacramento, CA
11:30 ACE Forward and San Joaquin JPA
Dan Leavitt, Manager of Regional Initiatives
PM
12:00 Lunch Break
No Host
1:00 High Speed Rail
Jeff Morales, CEO, California High Speed Rail Authority
1:45 Capitol Corridor
David Kutrosky, Managing Director
2:15 Minnesota Association of Railroad Passengers
Andrew Selden
2:45 Long Distance Trains
Eric Smith, Coast Starlight and Southwest Chief Route Manager, Amtrak
3:15 Annual Meeting of Citizens for Rail California dba RailPAC
3:30 Meeting Adjourns
"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.