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RailNation: San Antonio
Date
Friday, October 3, 2025 Sunday, October 5, 2025
Location
Holiday Inn San Antonio-Riverwalk 217 N St Mary's St San Antonio TX 78205
EVENT REGISTRATION
In-Person Registration: $192.00
Virtual Registration: $192.00
Deadline to register for both in-person & virtual is Sept 15th at midnight eastern.
Onsite registration will NOT be available in San Antonio.
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$161.00/night + tax for either King or Double Queen rooms
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This outline will be updated frequently by staff as the meeting comes together. NOTE: Times & topics may change.
Friday, October 3rd
- 1:00–3:00pm
- Regional Organizing Session & Council Committee Time
- Members on their own
- Not organized by staff
- Regional Organizing Session & Council Committee Time
- 3:00–5:00pm
- Advocacy Workshop
- Location TBA
- Separate Admission
- Advocacy Workshop
- 6:00–8:30pm
- AleNation
- Location TBA
- Separate Admission
- AleNation
Saturday, Oct 4th
MC/Host: Jim Mathews, Rail Passengers President + CEO
- 7:00–8:00am
- Registration/Breakfast
- 8:00–8:20am
- Welcome
- Meredith Richards, Rail Passengers Chairwoman
- Welcome
- 8:20–9:00am
- Local Presentation & Welcome
- Speaker TBA
- Local Presentation & Welcome
- 9:00–10:00am
- Mayors/Judges Panel
- Speakers TBA
- Mayors/Judges Panel
- 10:00–10:10am
- BREAK
- 10:10–11:00am
- State Presentation
- Speaker TBA
- State Presentation
- 11:00–11:45am
- Open Presentation
- Speaker TBA
- Open Presentation
- 11:45am–1:00pm
- Lunch - w/ Keynote Speaker
- Speaker TBA
- Lunch - w/ Keynote Speaker
- 1:00–1:45pm
- Rail Passengers Data Presentation
- Speaker TBA
- Rail Passengers Data Presentation
- 1:45–2:30pm
- Southern Rail Commission: Updates from the Gulf Coast/I-20 Corridor
- Speaker TBA
- Southern Rail Commission: Updates from the Gulf Coast/I-20 Corridor
- 2:30–2:45pm
- Break
- 2:45–3:45pm
- Amtrak Presentation/Panel
- Speakers TBA
- Amtrak Presentation/Panel
- 3:45–4:30pm
- Closing “Fireside Chat”
- Jim Mathews
- Guest TBA
- Closing “Fireside Chat”
- 4:30pm
- Conference Closes
Sunday, Oct 5th
- Morning
- Council Business Meeting
- Late Morning/Early Afternoon
- Brunch
- Location TBA
- Brunch
- Afternoon
- Self-guided tours
"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.