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It is late at night and cold and blustery on the windswept platform. It has begun to snow. A five-chime horn heralds the arrival of your train. You lift your suitcase and join fellow passengers boarding Amtrak Heritage-Fleet car 4007, thankful that a comfortable reclining seat ina toasty-warm coach awaits you. You're also thankful the train will speed you horne for the Holidays safe and sound through the stormy night. Yes; this is the way to travel! Here we go! ALL ABOARD! -- [Photo by Daniel W. Roark] Wilkowski Legislates Death Of ORTA Pol/owing Failure Of Issue 2 . details Inside
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Official Publication of the Ohio Association li- - of Railroad Passengers :l:iii!H ~ CO' 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111113 UJtJIIIItlll!llllllllllllllliHUlllllllllllllllllll ·\ suddenly movetowipe out nearly seven years of high-speed PROPOSEDAMENDMENT rail passenger transportation development. But really the saddest thing is that several key legislators that we be TO THEOHIO CONSTITUTION lieved to be friends of rail passenger service development voted to SUPPORT Wilkowski's irrational legislation! The PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT 13 who did vote against the legislation (and thus acted to To adopt Section 14 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the save ORTA) were: Amstutz, Ash, Ballweg, Batchelder, Corbin, 2 State of Ohio. Damschroder, Deffler, Deshler, R. Hughes, THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT WOULD: R. James, Netzley, Ney and Van Vyven. 1. AUTHORIZE THE OlfiO RAIL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY OARP has its work cut out in improving our relationship ~ TO HESIGN, CONSTRUCT, AND OPERATE A HIGH SPEED with our own state legislature. To that end, we will im INTERCITY PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ALONG mediately plan to print and distribute to every OARP member THREE SPECIFIED CORRinORS IN THE STATE, AN[) LEVY ADDITIONAL 1% SALES AND USE TAXES TO BE USED FOR in Ohio a handy state legislative directory to assist you THE DESIGN AN[) CONSTRUCTION OF THE SYSTEM; in contacting your elected representatives. Some OARP mem ~ bers presently have a good relationship with their state I 2. REQUIRE THE AUTHORITY TO AJ)OPT A PLAN FOR THE SYS on matters. But we must im TEM BY JUNE l, 1984, ANn ALLOW THE AUTHORITY TO PRO legislators rail transportation VWE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FROM LOCATIONS prove on that. If we don't write, or speak up; we won't be ANYWHERE WITHIN THE STATE TO THE HIGH SPEED COR- heard. It's that simple. Those who put forth the effort RinORS; • will help get things done. With a new Governor taking of a man who 3. REQUIRE A VOTE ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE ADDI fice in January, has indicated he favors the de TIONAL 1% SALES AND USE TAXES TWO YEARS AFTER THE velopment of rail passenger service in Ohio, OARP has an SYSTEM IS COMPLETED, BUT NOT LATER THAN THE YEAR opportunity we cannot afford to miss. 2000; 4. PROHIBIT THE AUTHORITY FROM BORROWING MONEY OR CREATING ANY DEBT. OHIO'SGOVERNOR-ELECT INDICATES HE WANTSPASSENGER TRAINS!! IF ADOPTED, THIS AMENDMENT SHALL TAKE We strongly believe the climate for the development of' rail IMMEDIATE EFFECT. passenger transportation in Ohio has done an about-face! We have a direct indication from Governor-elect Richard F. (Proposed by Resolution of the General Assembly of Ohio) Celeste that he favors passenger trains. Celeste has in dicated that he wants to work very closely with ORTA after A majority yes vote is necessary for passage. he takes office in January. During the recent gubernator ial campaign Celeste did not endorse Issue Two because he YES I 711,450 • 22.81% did not favor funding the high-speed system via the state sales tax. Yet he did state many times that he found the high-speed rail system proposal very appealing. Former c><::lNO 2,408,254 77.19% Governor James A. Rhodes favored highways and trucks. He never did much at all for mass transit. Now the highways are falling apart from the overloaded trucks, and the pub J Although Ohio Issue Two went down to a resounding defeat, lic transit alternatives in Ohio have been allowed to be many agreed that it was more a vote against the sales tax come fewer and fewer. We welcome an attitude turn-around funding mechanism rather than a vote against passenger favoring the development of mass transit including im trains. Because of the economy right now, and because O proved rail transportation in and through Ohio! hio's sales tax was already increased recently to help bail out the State Treasury, it was clearly not the time to go this route to fund the construction of the core of Ohio's proposed High-Speed System. 0 A R P " A L E R T" //// We have a strong inside indica- ( Issue Two failed in tion that Rep. Wilkowski will every one of Ohio's eighty-eight counties. It was even again attempt to "dispose of" ORTA before Richard Celeste ~ defeated resoundingly in the Mahoning Valley area (Youngs takes office and has an opportunity to give careful study town-Warren) which was the only area of the state which and consideration to ORTA's role in his administration. strongly endorsed passage of the Issue due to the vested OARP feels that while it is time to change directions, it interest of a proposed Test Track and Research Facility is foolish to do away with Ohio's rail transportation a being located in the vicinity of North Warren, Ohio. Even gency at this time, before Gov. Celeste has a chance to long before the election, rail consultants and transport do anything. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS & URGE ation ex~ertswere ~uestioningthe fundint mechanism. THEM TO OPPOSE ANY MOVE TO DISMANTLE ORTA AT THIS TIME! 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111115 11111111111111111111~1111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111114 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~ ( For those interested, Howard Harding has prepared a summary ISSUE2, OARPPROPOSAL DISCUSSIONS DOMINATE LIMA MEETING Report on the October 8-9-10 NARP DIRECTORS MEETING. Howard has condensed his 19 pages of notes down to a concise 2or 3 Host John Keller ad pages and he'll send you a Summary Report if you send him a dresses opening of self-addressed business letter size envelope with a 20¢ OARP Is FALL MEETING stamp affixed. Note; send your request directly to Howard. in the auditorium of the Allen County Museum in Lima, 0. [Mark Adam:::ik photo] ISSUE2, J.O.B.S. CAMPAIGNWAS DISAPPOINTING, DEMORALIZING! To many OARP members, lack of a coordinated, visible state Forty OARP mem wide Issue 2 campaign was a bitter disappointment and ob ;o bers and guests viously contributed to the Issue's defeat. Even legislat journeyed to Lima ive stalwarts like Sen. Harry Meshel spoke out publicly on September 25th on the "too little, too late" status of the campaign. The (one carne on the burden of the campaign was thrown on Rep. Robert Boggs' b BROADWAY/CAPITOL) shoulders; however every little decision had to be run past for OARP's FALL Rep. Art Wilkowski. Very little money was raised, and an MEETING which was out-of-state campaign consulting firm functioned poorly and enjoyed by all despite it being a gray and drizzly day. Our failed to fulfill its obligations at a critical point. It Lima Area Regional Coordinator, John H. Keller and his son is a classic lesson of how NOT to do it again. P r1n . t e d hosted the event which concluded with a guided tour through promotional materials were sparse and/or tacky. In one the railroad exhibit at Lima's Lincoln Park. Four items of classic gaffe the word "steel" was obviously hyphenated in OARP business were acted upon during the course of the day. one widely dispersed piece of literature! When people of The membership approved the appointment of Fran Planner of fered to help the campaign follow-up contact was poor or Xenia as OARP's new Membership Services Chairwoman, suc nil, leading quite a few to believe their help was not de ceeding John Kempton of Sandusky who asked to be relieved sired after all. Rep. Wilkowski even ordered the ORTA em of the membership duties but who will retain his post as ployees NOT to assist the campaign, even on their own time! Sandusky Area Regional Coordinator. The membership also That instantly demoralized the entire ORTA staff. When TV approved creation of an OARP lOth Anniversary Planning Com advertising time was purchased, Rep. Wilkowski waited un mittee and OARP President Pulsifer appointed Al Wolf as the til only weeks before the election. By that time all a convenor of that Committee. The membership also approved vailable time had long since been sold! He did not realize the expenditure of no more than $350 for the purchase of 5 that you had to buy the time early in the game. As a re used file cabinets for OARP records and materials storag~. sult, the few short Issue 2 TV spots that did make it ran It was pointed out that some time ago an appeal was made at ungodly hours and reached few. Regional fund raisers for used file cabinets to be donated to OARP, but there was were organized on such short notice that few attended. The no response on the matter. Recent visitors to the Pulsifer Dayton fund raiser could almost have passed for a regional home attest to the fact that better storage facilities for OARP . OARP stuff is needed immediately. meeting! We regret that Rep. Boggs found h1rnself as The membership, follow Campaign Director, caught right in the middle between Rep. ing some discussion, conditionally authorized the expend Wilkowski's stubborn manipulating of the campaign and on the !II iture of up to $100 towards an inter-ARP campaign (spear other hand the goal of a successful coordinated campaign. headed by California's Byron Nordberg) to get the CARDINAL, the EAGLE and the SUNSET trains running daily. The $100 One event which did not come off might have improved the Is would go towards a uniform flyer, but thus far we are not sue's odds. Bombardier of Canada offered to repaint an LRC ~ satisfied with the proposed flyer. The flyer would be dis train-set in ORTA's logo and bring it to Ohio for a tour of tributed by OARP/NARP members on the trains and at the sta the state. Reportedly this would have cost $1.5 million. tions along the three routes. Your OARP president stood ready to organize OARP volunteers Much of the meeting was de to act as hosts at each stop the LRC train would make. But voted to lengthy discussion of Issue Two, and OARP's Pas because plans were made "too late" this highly visible e- senger Rail Transportation Plan for Ohio which was led by Bill Hutchison and Howard Harding. Amtrak's Fred Frayer vent fell through. Frankly, though, OARP doubts that Issue spoke about Amtrak's expanded Package Express Services and Two would have passed even with a "perfect" campaign, due also donated some Amtrak items as door prizes. We journey to the problems with the sales tax funding mechanism. None ed to lunch at the historic Argonne Hotel via a chartered of the polls showed that the issue would pass as presented. Lima RTA bus which, following lunch, took us to the Amtrak However, only days prior to the election, Rep. Wilkowski Station for a quick field inspection (in the rain). Our confidently predicted that Issue Two would definitely win! thanks to John Keller, Sr. and Jr., and to all who helped make the OARP FALL MEETING a success! 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111116 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ( The OARP-proposed system would be a modern, rapid, conven OARP's PASSENGERRAIL PLAN FOR OHIO IS NEARINGCOMPLETION! ient and comfortable inter-city rail passenger transport ation system. In addition to providing good transportation service fairly quickly, enactment of this proposal would build a solid foundation for the evolutionary development of true high-speed inter-city rail service throughout the Midwest. There is a five-state "compact" consisting of O hio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Pennsylvania already studying rail service improvements for the entire Midwest. On financing the system, state funds could come from a var iety of sources, including existing general funds or spec ~ ial transportation-related taxes such as gasoline and motor vehicle taxes, highway user fees, railroad property taxes or bond issues -- all mechanisms other states have used to improve their rail passenger services. ~ OARP proposes a prompt beginning for rail passenger service improvements; improvements needed to maintain personal mobility. OARP's proposal builds from limited existing trains via five phases to provide steadily improving service throughout Ohio and our neighboring states. OARP recognizes that to out our proposal within the estimated ten Hutchison and Howard Harding present of a of carry six to Bill details final draft year timetable will require a firm commitment from govern OARP's awn Passenger Rail Transportation Plan for Ohio at the recent ment officials, plus the willing cooperation of Amtrak, OARP FALL MEETINGin Lima, September 25th. [photo: Mark Adam::ik] rail labor unions, and the freight railroads which own the Ohio can have expanded and improved rail passenger service needed rights of way. Any of these elements, as well as at far less cost, linking more cities, and much sooner than the price and availability of petroleum products or the provided by the "Bullet Train" proposal which Ohio voters general state of the U.S. economy may either compress or soundly rejected at the polls November 2nd. OARP . extend that timetable. However swift or slow the progress 1s propos- may be, OARP believes that Ohio's seven year ORTA study of ing creation of a rapid, inter-city rail passenger network passenger and the experience our Ohio and OARP rail service practical of for five nearby states. believes that in the neighboring states can and should be combined to produce a face of rising financial and social costs of automobile de passenger renaissance throughout the Midwest. pendence, there a need for a real alternative to auto rail service is OARP further believes the time to begin now and the travel. OARP believes that improved inter-city rail pas is senger service, integrated with improved inter-city bus and place to begin is Ohio! urban public transportation can provide that alternative. 111111111111111111111 Unlike the ORTA plan voters defeated by a 78-to-22 percent OARP IS NOW MAKING PLANS TO MAKE PUBLIC ITS PASSENGER RAIL margin, OARP's proposal calls for no new state taxes. Fin TRANSPORTATION PLAN FOR OHIO AT A PRESS CONFERENCE IN COL ancing for OARP's plan would be shared jointly by Amtrak, UMBUS EARLY IN DECEMBER. CONTACT YOUR CLOSEST OFFICER OR the states, and local communities. The ORTA plan proposed "t REGIONAL COORDINATOR FOR DETAILS. PRINTED COPIES OF THE building an entirely new three-route rail system linking OARP PROPOSAL, AVAILABLE FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION BY MID only the major cities of Cleveland, Columbus, Springfield, DECEMBER, WILL BE MAILED POSTPAID IN RETURN FOR A $1.00 Middletown-Hamilton, Dayton, Cincinnati, Toledo, Lorain ~ DONATION TO OARP FOR EACH COPY REQUESTED. PLEASE ADDRESS Elyria, Akron, Mansfield, and Youngstown at a total cost of YOUR REQUEST DIRECTLY TO OARP, BOX 653, XENIA, OH 45385. $11.5 billion over the next 16 years. That cost equals the size of the entire annual Ohio budget! By their votes on November 2nd, Ohioans seemed to agree such a large expend iture for only three rail routes would be imprudent at OARP's Passenger Rail Transportation Plan for Ohio was pre pared for OARP by BILL HUTCHISON, DON HOLLOWAY, JOHN PAWSON best. OARP's plan calls for spending a total $2.4 billion and HOWARD HARDING with assistance provided by MARK ADAMCIK, to expand existing Ohio Amtrak routes to serve all cities DAVE LEBOLD, TOM PULSIFER, JIM STEVENSON, GREG THORSON, PAUL of more than 30,000 population in the state; and link them WOODRING, NANCY POPEKO and PATTY HARDING. Additionally, to cities in New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana and Bill and Howard sincerely appreciate the various input to Michigan. That cost would include electrification and up the report by numerous members at meetings and by mail. grading to llOmph speeds on the major routes. WE SINCERELY THANK ALL WHO HAD A HAND IN THIS PROPOSAL! 111111111tlll !lllllllll IIlllllltlll litl±tllllllllllll 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111118 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 9 ( CINCINNATI-INDIANAPOLISROUTE UPDATE ---- by W. Mike Weber OHIODELEGATION TO CONGRESS --- MICHAEL DEWINE takes o To purchase or not to purchase the former New York Central Here are the u.s. Congressional ver Clarence Brown's Cincinnati-Shelbyville-Indianapolis line will be resolved election results: 7th District. Brown during this "Lame Duck" session of Congress. A u.s. Dept. ran for Ohio Governor. SENATE: Howard Metzenbaum(D) of Transportation report, based largely on 1982 HOOSIER MARCIA KAPTUR defeated STATE ridership figures, recommended that Amtrak NOT buy HOUSE: l Thomas Luken(D) Republican Ed Weber in the Shelbyville line. Very little consideration was given 2 Willis Gradison, Jr. (R) the 9th District. to rerouting the CARDINAL through Indianapolis, access to 3 Tony Hall(D) JOHN KASICH Beech Grove Amtrak Shops from the east, opening Indiana 4 Michael Oxley(R) defeated Bob Shamansky(D) polis up to Washington and Northeast Corridor travel, etc. 5 Delbert Latta(R) in the The report was built around the usual "gospel" -- SAVE 6 Bob McEwen(R) 12th District. MONEY. All the conclusions, I feel, were well known in ad- " 7 MICHAEL DEWINE(R) Lyle Williams moved to vance any . of study. Governor Orr of Ind1ana, Mayor Hudnut 8 Thomas Kindness(R) the 17th District from of Indianapolis, and Senator Lugar (R) have all rebuffed ti 9 MARCIA KAPTUR(D) the 19th, where EDWARD the report as shallow and full of pre-conceived notions. 10 Clarence Miller (R) FEIGHAN was elected. Dennis This session of Congress will tell the tale. Any travel ll Eckart(D) Dennis Eckart moved to agent on the CARDINAL route can tell you there is tremen 12 JOHN KASICH(R) the llth District, for dous interest by the traveling public in service to Missou 13 Donald Pease(D) merly held by J. Wil ri, Kansas and the Southwest. When Amtrak began in 1971 14 John Seiberling(D) liam Stanton, Eckart this link was provided somewhat by a JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY/ 15 Chalmers Wylie(R) 16 Ralph Regula(R) formerly represented NATIONAL LIMITED connection at Indianapolis to the South the 22nd District. west via St. Louis and Kansas City. I can easily picture 17 Lyle Williams(R) St. Louis cars on a CARDINAL via Indianapolis as a possi 18 Douglas Applegate(D) Ohio lost two seats as bility after a rerouting through Indianapolis. 19 EDWARD FEIGHAN(D) a result of redistrict 20 Mary Rose Oakar(D) ing. The 22nd and 23rd 21 Louis Stokes(D) Districts were elimin It appears Amtrak may be pricing the HOOSIER STATE right ated. Ronald Mottl was out of existence. Local, on-line promotion of the train Freshman members are listed in 23rd District Congress is virtually nil; and the present fare structure does not BOLDFACE TYPE. man. encourage people to use the train. Amtrak's present R.T. fare between Indianapolis and Chicago is $59.00. Round trip bus fare is only $53.40 and there are several conven OARP's POLITICAL ANALYSIS: Based on research conducted by Al Wolf, ient departures each way daily. There is only one train. Tom Pulsifer and Manfred Orlow (with input Amtrak's rates for round-trip are double the one-way fare. from several other OARP members) we generally believe the following The only discount presently offered is the usual family candidates (District winners are CAPITALIZED) are/were pro-rail: plan discount. There is no discount incentive for single people or a one-day round-trip for business travel. This U.S. SENATE: HOWARDMETZENBAUM(D) 10 - 11 - DENNIS ECKART(D) may well explain why HOOSIER STATE ridership is dropping. U.S. HOUSE: THOMASLUKEN(D) 1- 12 - Bob Shamansky(D) 2 - ---- ~ 13 - DONALDPEASE(D) 3 - TONY P. HALL(D) 14 - JOHN SEIBERLING(D) 4 - OXFORD,OHIO, CARDINAL STOPS SET FORHOLIDAYS ---- 15 5 - James Sherck(D) Amtrak's CARDINAL will make special station stops at OXFORD 16 - Jeffrey Orenstein(D) ~ 6 - BOB McEWEN(R) 17 - George D. Tablack(D) for passengers ticketed in advance through either the Trav 7 - MICHAEL DEWINE(R) 18 _ DOUGLASAPPLEGATE(D) el Unlimited or Oxford AAA agencies. OARP, as well as both 8 _ THOMASKINDNESS(R) 19 - EDWARDFEIGHAN(D) travel agencies are advertising the special train stops on 9 - MARCIA KAPTUR(D) the Miami University campus and in the community. 20 _ MARYROSE OAKAR(D) 21 - LOUIS STOKES(D) WED NOV 24 #50 eastbound MON NOV 29 #51 westbound THU DEC 16 #51 westbound FRI DEC 17 #50 eastbound We are pleased to report that, once again this year, Am SAT JAN 15 #51 westbound SUN JAN 16 #50 eastbound trak's Chicago Reservations Office requested 200 OARP Cal endars to post at each reservations terminal in the office! OARPADVISES: MAKEPLANS EARLY FOR HOLIDAY TRAIN TRAVEL! HELPKEEP OARP STRONG ==== RENEWYOUR MEMBERSHIP PROMPTLY 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111110 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ( ( ( 1983 OARP COLOR TRAIN CALENDAR OARP's 1983 CALENDARS are available now! Our CALEHDAR features a full-color photo of Amtrak's westbound BROADWAYLIMITED/CAPITOL LIMITED at Lima, Ohio, during a daybreak thundershower. The black-and-white version reprinted at the right does not do it justice. Our photographer is Willie Davis of Lynchburg, Ohio. Our OARP 1983 CALENDAR is printed on heavy white stock and measures 9" by 12", with a hole drilled at the top for easy hanging. In addition to the whole-year-at-a-glance, and of course the at tractive color photo, our CALENDAR features handy information including; Amtrak local sta tion phone numbers, Amtrak regional sales and marketing office phone numbers, Amtrak reserva tions and information hotlines, the Ohio legis lative information hotline, and ORTA's address and phone number. Our OARP CALENDARS have be come increasingly popular with each year that we have produced them. We know that you will be pleased with them. ORDER YOURS TODAY! 1983 OARP CALENDARS: l/$1. 00 2/$2.00 3/$3.00 4/$4.00 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 5/$5.00 10/$6.00 15/$7.00 • • • OARP 1983 CALENDAR ORDER FORM [Nov 6: 53] • 20/$8.00 25/$9.00 30/$10.00 40/$11.00 50/$12.00 • • 60/$13.00 75/$14.00 100/$15.00 • name • We've structured the CALENDAR prices to cover our costs and • address • also make it easier for OARP members to order quantities to ,. distribute to family, friends, associates and agencies. . ) : city/state/zip : We will ship your CALENDAR(S) postpaid in an envelope by first-class mail for best service to you. Please order your : quantity amount enclosed : CALENDARS in the quantities and at the prices shown in the above table. If you want more than 100, please contact your • Make checks/money orders payable to: O.A.R.P. • OARP a President directly for specific quote. We have al • We do not advise sending cash through the mail. • ready arranged OARP CALENDAR promotional ads in Ohio Maga • Please allow 2 weeks for processing and shipping your • zine, Passenger Train Journal, Rail Travel News andLimaEnter • CALENDAR order. Thank you! You may duplicate this • prise. If you can use a copy of our camera-ready display~ • MAIL TO: OARP CALENDARS form on a copier if you • contact your OARP President for details. We can reach poten • --- P.O. BOX 653 do not wish to tear up • tial new members this way, as we send an OARP brochure along • XENIA, OH 45385 your "6:53". • with each CALENDAR order! Again this year, our CALENDARS were printed by BNT PRINTING & PUBLISHING of Dayton, Ohio. • • ORDER YOUR 1983 OARP CALENDARS NOW! Use the handy coupon .... • • •••••••••••••••• 13 ••••••••••••••• • 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 12 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ( ( i· OARPMEMBER EDITS RAIL TRAVELERS' CITY PLANNER PUBLICATION OARPPRESIDENT CRiriCAL OF NARP'sNEW MEMBERSHIP BROCHURE A newly revised and expanded "RAIL TRAVELER'S CITY PLANNER" NARP released its very long awaited new membership brochure has made its debut with the October issue of The Official early in October. Its release immediately prompted your Railway Guide. Its editor is OARP member James Feeney of OARP President to write a letter to NARP, constructively New York. The "RTCP" is designed to facilitate rail travel critical of the brochure. The first samples sent to OARP by providing detailed information on practically all as were printed in black and dark blue on grayish recycled pects of concern to rail travelers. In addition to specif paper creating immediately a mood of depression. The ying rail services at 489 cities in the United States, Can large photo on the back was not even cropped squarely re ada and Mexico, the "RTCP" provides information about rail sulting in a water tower in the background that obviously road station facilities, nearby hotels, car rental availa appears to be toppling. The train in the same photo is bility and transit. Individual station information spans almost lost amid a clutter of industrialiana. Most of the station hours, baggage checking and handling facilities, photos in the new brochure are printed too dark and only useful telephone numbers, food and other services in the one of the five photos shows any people at all. Also, one station itself. "RTCP" will be published twice yearly. of the five photos shows not a train, but a farm! The con- OARP members may order a copy of the RAIL TRAVELERS' CITY tent of the new NARP brochure is, in part, its sole redeem PLANNER by sending $5.00 for each copy to: National Railway ing factor. But, in places, the text gets very wordy with Publication Company, 424 W. 33rd St., New York, NY 10001. tiring paragraphs. Even the cover headline is a 22-word sentence which takes more than two seconds (a "rule of thumb" in the advertising world) to get its message across. J 0 I N 0 A R P TODAY • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Your OARP President, also a NARP member, has offered to as Let's help get Ohio moving • sist NARP in developing a more optimistic, positive, and on passenger trains! We are NOT another railfan club. We are rail transport • graphically appealing brochure. So far, he has received no ation advocates! OARP is the • response from NARP. We may assume that it is already too voice of concerned Ohioans • late and that many thousands of these new NARP brochures • have already rolled through the press. $5.00 working for better passenger Be that as may, trains and rail transit . • it • • we do have a supply of these NARP brochures and we are • We're over 700 strong and moving forward together for • willing to send you one by return mail if you'll send us a • better trains in the 1980's. Won't you join us today? self-addressed business-letter size envelope with 20¢ in • • postage affixed • • • • NAME______• • • • Our own PATTY HARDING • ADDRESS______• • assisted NARP Presi • • dent Jack Martin and CITY/STATE/ZIP______• NARP Director George • • Falcon in presenting • • the NARP/George Falcon • PHONENW'IBER ______• Golden Spike Award to • • Amtrak executive James • • Larson the recent • A NEW MEMBERSHIP in OARP is still just $5.00 for your • ( at first year. Please allow 4-6 weeks for your member- • NARP Directors Meeting • • • in New Orleans. The • ship to be processed. Check here o if you can be act- • award commended Amtrak • ive in the ongoing work of OARP • for the excellent • in your area. • • handicapped-accessible • • design of its new Mail this with your remittance to: • sleeping cars. Shown • • • OARPMEMBERSHIP SERVICES here at the New Orl • eans Union Passenger • P.O. BOX653 • • Terminal are, from the left, an Amtrak car attendant, Patty XENIA,OH 45385 • and Howard Harding, and NARP Director George Falcon, former • NOV 8 2 • • President of Citizens for Rail California. [Mark Adam:::ik photo] • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• rmnn:n:nnrnmmmn:nnnmrnrrnnrn+rn 14 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllttlllllllllll 15 Ill ~1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 / ( o Moving on R TRAINS! ERS P 0. BOX 653 XENIA, OH. 45385-0653 OARP's NEW BUMPER STICKER (reproduced here at slightly less than actual size) clearly states our goal as rail passenger transportation advocates for today and for tomorrow! These THANKS to David B. Marshall, John & Sandy Edminson, and Tom bumper feature white on dark blue vinyl. Pulsifer for staffing OARP's INFORMATION TABLE at a stickers lettering Railroad Show & Flea Market at the Clark County Fairgrounds ORDER YOURS TODAY! We'll send you one, postpaid, for $1.00 in Springfield on October 31st. Our next big event is the and you want more, the one, 50¢ each. if after first they're two-day Railroad Show Montgomery County Fairgrounds Make your check payable to: O.A.R.P. and mail your request at the in Dayton on November 27th and 28th. We will be there with to OARP at P .. o. Box 653, Xenia, OH 45385. our materials and Amtrak materials. Eloise Pulsifer has been sewing a nice cloth "cover" for our exhibit table and Tom A SPECIAL OARP MAILING regarding OHIO ISSUE TWO was sent to has been working on some other "additions" to improve all OARP members in OHIO about one week before the election our informational display. We will be contacting Dayton on November 2nd. It contained the complete text of the Is area members to assist with this event on the 27th and 28th. sue as well as an explanation of the Issue and legislative positions pro and con as provided by the Ohio Secretary of State's office. 0 A R P P 0 S T C A RD S If you did not receive a copy of this OARP Thanks to the efforts of OARP member CARL special mailing and would like one, please send us a 20¢ PLANNERand PEERLESS PRESS PRINTING CO. of Dayton, the color photos a postage stamp to help defray our expenses. Thank you! dorning our OARP 1981 and 1982 Calendars are NeW AVAILABLEAS POSTCARDS which you W can use for your collection or for mailing. e are as k.J.ng a 10¢ donation for each card in any quantity. Send your request directly OUr deepest synpa.thy is extended to OARP Regional Coordinator DAVID B. OARP Box OH 45385. haw many MARSHALL and his family of Springfield. Dave's father passed away ear to at P.O. 653, Xenia, Indicate you want each photo: ly in September after a short illness. of #1 -Amtrak's CARDINAL, westbound, crosses Okeana Trestle in Butler County, Ohio, on a bright, midwinter day. WE HAVE A REASONABLY GOOD SUPPLY of the October 31st AMTRAK [Photo by OARP member W. MIKE WEBER, Cincinnati] NATIONWIDE TIMETABLES. As a service to OARP members and friends who cannot otherwise obtain timetables easily, we #2 - Amtrak's LAKE SHORE LIMITED and LAKE CITIES prepare to make these schedules available to you at no charge, except depart Toledo, Ohio, on a hot midsummer morning. by OARP member JOHN T. McCANN, W. we do ask you to send us a business letter size self-ad [Photo Carrollton] dressed envelope with 54¢ in postage affixed (20+17+17). The eastbound CARDINAL now runs about one hour earlier than We are presently working with our data processor to ilrprove quality it used to. Minor adjustments in station times affect the control with our various OARP MAILING LISTS. We regret any inconven BROADWAY/CAPITOL as well as the LAKE SHORE. ALL Amtrak ience the errors may have caused any of our OARP members and friends. trains serving Ohio now stop at the new Amtrak station at We're hard at work to get the errors corrected. Please bear with us! HAMMOND-WHITING, Indiana, which is a full-service station. Officers/Regional Coordinators will soon receive membership rosters. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111116 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111l 7 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ( ( ADAMBENJAMIN, JR. 1935-1982 Over 225 persons attend NATIONALLIMITED RIDERSHIP RAISES QUESTION ON DISCONTINUANCE Congress lost one of its most ded ed a High-Speed Passen ---- by Samuel E. Stokes, Jr. The one Amtrak route elim icated and respected members with ger Rail Transportation inated in 1979 with the Seminar at the Sheraton the untimely death of Indiana Dem Columbus on September largest collection of huge SMSA's in this country was the ocratic Rep. Adam Benjamin, Jr., NATIONAL LIMITED. By connecting New York, Philadelphia and 22nd. The Seminar fo 47. Benjamin was widely known as on Washington with Pittsburgh, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, a strong supporter of Amtrak and cused attention the St. Louis and Kansas City; and by linking five state capit of mass transit. Ohio High-Speed Rail als, this train had -- and still could have -- more than ac Amtrak's new Test Track Facility ceptable ridership potential. rail passenger station serving design report which was The NATIONAL LIMITED was Hammond/Whiting, Indiana, has been officially released at dropped because Conrail wanted it out of the way of their dedicated to the memory of Cong the Seminar. freight trains. However, soon after the NATIONAL LIMITED ressman Adam Benjamin, Jr., who vanished, Conrail began to tear up some of these tracks! more anyone im than else secured, OARP member SCOTT CAM proved and promoted a modern nat Amtrak agreed to the demise of this train because it said ERON of Warren has col that ridership was low. There are odd ways to look at the ional rail passenger system for America. lected 1,162 signatures facts! RIDERSHIP on a petition to pro AUGUST 1981 AUGUST 1979 vide service at Warren Over 50 persons attended the 2-day by the proposed Amtrak MONTREALER ...... 18,731 High-Speed Rail Compact Meeting in PENNSYLVANIAN extension October at Dearborn, Michigan. The between Pittsburgh and BROADWAY/CAPITOL .. 30,557 NATIONAL LIMITED .... 28,610 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 23,009 main speakers were LARRY GILSON, Cleveland via Youngs PIONEER ...... 23,325 President of the American High town. Additional 1979 NATIONAL LIM Speed Rail Corporation and REGINALD GILLIAM of the I.C.C. in Washing ITED ridership data: Because of a "shuffle" JUNE ...... 24,035 ton, DC. The Budd Company present I am astounded that Con ed an AV on proposed of agencies in the JULY ...... 27,236 report their State Office Tower at rail and Amtrak arguments AUGUST (above) 28,610 Los Angeles - Las Vegas MagLev sys were accepted! If Congress tem. The Compact moved 30 East Broad Street in SEPTEMBER (last mo.) 17,970 delegates Columbus, ORTA has wants a work project that to establish a Technical Advisory sec will provide jobs and bring Committee to bring together plan ured new quarters at back a major missing link in our rail passenger system, it ning- development resources and 51 North High Street. should provide funds for relaying the NATIONAL LIMITED expertise of the five states that The move is not expect track to FRA Class IV standards for the return of this ed prior to mid-Decem comprise the Rail Compact. ber of this year. train in 1983 · [Ed. Note. Mr. Stokes, a !1Y2I1lberof OARP and NARP, obtained the ridership data from Robert Gall at Amtrak/Washington. Sam Stokes has already communicated these figures to Ohio U.S. Senators AMTRAK90 IS PUBLISHEDand it has We WELCQME another ARP! M=tzenbaum and Glenn. Since COLUMBUS,OHIO is today the largest SMSA good things to say about Amtrak The D~OTA RAIL PASSEN in the U.S.A. without Amtrak service, it would be worth the effort if service development in Ohio. Our GERS ASSOCIATION has OARP would renew atterrpts to make once again the Amtrak rail travel op good friend Prof. Ronald Sheck is been formed, with Jim tion available to Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. Although same believe the the author. Sheck states that Am Larson (Box 91, Grand Conrail Pittsburgh-columbus, Dayton-Richrrond-Indianapolis trackage may trak can be transformed into an ef Forks, ND 58201) as its be beyond redemption, there are alternatives available to get COLUMBUS ficient, profitable operation with chairman. and DAYTONback on track. T. R. P .] in eight years; also that the mark et for rail passenger service in OARP member CAPT. TOM the U .·s. has been grossly underest OARP has learned that an official Pittsburgh-Youngstown imated and badly misinterpreted. HOWARD of Fairborn is Cleveland Amtrak inspection trip will probably take place recuperating at home sometime early in the Spring of 1983. Pennsylvania is very For a copy of Sheck's 75-page Exec from three cataract o anxious to extend its state-supported PENNSYLVANIAN service utive Summary send a $4 check made perations, one which to Cleveland. Station stops would include New Castle, payable to NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVER almost cost him his Youngstown, Warren, Akron(at Hudson), and Cleveland. Coop SITY FOUNDATION to: Prof. Ronald C. life. Members wishing eration of Ohio would be necessary to this extension; but Sheck, Dept. of Earth Sciences, to send a card or a with Dick Celeste in the Ohio Governor's office, insiders New Mexico State University, Las note may address it to: see a vastly improved attitude towards the development of Cruces, NM 88003. Ask for "AMTRAK 31 West Xenia Drive rail passenger services in the Buckeye State. We will keep 90: A ROUTE TO SUCCESS". Fairborn, OH 45324 you up to date on developments as they occur. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111l9 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111118 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ( ( ( PLANAHcMu FOR JOINT NARP REGION 5 & 6 MEETINGNEXT MARCH! NARP Region 5 Director and KyARP President Don Maxwell has OARP TREASURER'S REPORT SUMMARY ----- I I I I I I I I I I I I officially announced that Regions 5 and 6 of the National Previous Balance (22 May 82) $1,057.90 '-l!!llltff~ Association of Railroad Passengers will hold a joint meet DEPOSITS + $3,888.12 ing in CINCINNATI on MARCH 19 & 20, 1983. The main purpose DISBURSEMENTS -$3,476.82 of this meeting will be to discuss best ways that NARP and Balance on hand (25 Sept 82) $1,469.20 the various state/regional ARPs can work for re-establish 198S ment of Midwest- Florida Amtrak service. The meeting will TRAIN be scheduled to allow attendees from Region 5 to utilize UNAUTHORIZEDACTIVITIES MUST STOP ---- the CARDINAL to and from the Queen City. The meeting will Amtrak District Supervisor Tom Jensen CALENDAR be held at the Holiday Inn/Downtown and also at Cincinnati of Toledo has informed OARP that there Convenient 9 x 12 size features Union Terminal. Several key Amtrak and governmental of have been reports of some Amtrak Con full-color photo of Amtrak's have been asked NARP ficials to attend. regional elections ductors/Trainmen allowing members of BROADWAY LIMITED at Uma; be OARP and KyARP have been will held. asked to co-host the Public to assist them in the per whole year at a glance. the event. NARP President Jack Martin will attend. formance of their duties. THIS PRAC SEND U.OO The Midwinter quarterly meeting of OARP will be held in TICE MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY! Only conjunction with the Regional NARP Meeting. Mark your authorized Amtrak Conductors/Trainmen DONATION to calendar now and plan to attend. Details announced later. are allowed to pick up tickets, etc. OHIO ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD We agree with Mr. Jensen. And we take PASSENGERS this opportunity to remind all of our P.O. BOX 65.1 readers because you are a TRI-STATESTATION GETS AWARDS OARP'slOth ANNIVERSARY!!! that just XENIA, OHIO 45.185 member of OARP, or NARP or some other Congratulations to Amtrak's Al Wolf's "OARP lOth AN rail advocacy group, that in no way TRI-STATE STATION and lead a NIVERSARY COMMITTEE" held authorizes you to "play" conductor or gent H. K. Holmes at Catletts its first meeting on the "play" ticket agent on Amtrak trains burg, KY, on receiving several 13th of November at the or in Amtrak stations. Many of us sales awards this year! The Holiday Inn/West in Colum have very good relations with area Am station won the top sales a bus. The Committee has trak personnel. All it takes to ! ! !!a!!!! ward for Amtrak's Great Lakes selected the weekend of spoil this is for one person to abuse Region JULY 1983 for the first three 15-16-17, to it. A word to the wise ... CAMERA-READY COPIES quarters of 1983. The station celebrate OARP's lOth AN of ad are a also won Amtrak's Midwestern NIVERSARY. So, mark your this Region top sales award for the vailable (contact calendars now! It is not EVERYLITTLE BIT HELPS... Your OARP Pres your OARP Pres.) second quarter of 1983. A t if gen too late to get actively ident has successfully arranged for OARP to you'd like to run Holmes attributes the CARDIN involved with the COMMIT have an account with El-Bee Office Outfitters it in your area. AL's success at Tri-State to TEE planning this event. of Dayton for office supplies. They will al We will not reim the publicity and advertising Please get in touch with low us a 10% discount which will help us save burse you for run campaign conducted by NARP and Al Wolf in Dayton soon. funds in these days of tight econany. ning the ad unless area ARPs including OARP. The 1 arrangements are Details regarding our lOth OARP s NEW STATIONERYwill be showing up very approved by the Tri-State Station is a modern, ANNIVERSARY will be forth scan. Our officers and regional coordinators OARP officers in fully staffed facility on US23 coming. have already been contacted about new OARP advance. OARP is in Catlettsburg, KY. It serves business cards and stationery supplies. OARP already running the greater Ashland, Kenova, member Carl Planner and Peerless Press Print calendar ads in Catlettsburg area of Kentucky, ing Ccrnpany are handling our needs. We be Ohio and West GETA FRIENDTO JOIN OARP! lieve you will be pleased with our new look. OHIO MAGAZINE, the Virginia. Lima ENTERPRISE, (Yes! Our logo will remain the same. ) RAIL TRAVEL NEWS Your OARP President will be in Washington, DC, December 1 & and PASSENGER TRAIN 2 in his capacity as one of Ohio's High Speed Rail Compact OURCONTINUED THANKS to all of you who JOURNAL. A copy of delegates participating in a meeting between the Compact send in clippings our 1983 Calendar and Congressmen from the Compact-member states. U.S. DOT and news items. Due to the ever in with an accompany Secretary Drew Lewis is scheduled to address the meeting. creasing volume of mail, we just can ing press release Tom plans to travel to and from Washington on Amtrak's CAP not individually acknowledge materials will be soon sent ITOL LIMITED. submitted. We really do depend on YOU to travel editors tUJ to keep us well-informed. THANK YOU! of leading Ohio llitlitlUJ tLllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 20 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1 1 newsta~ers. 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112 1 111111111111111111111111111111 Gllllllllllllllllllll ( ( AVON IRON HORSE STEINS AVAILABLE THROUGH OARP OARP an- BAGGAGE & E X P R E S S In September the Council of nounces Upper Great Lakes Governors the opportunity for our members and friends to obtain a new adopted a resolution favor collector's gift item for the Holidays. We've made arrange ing the development of high-speed rail passenger systems as ments with an Avon representative to make their handcrafted, a potential means for regional economic development and al glazed-ceramic AGE OF THE IRON HORSE STEINS available at an so urged Wisconsin and Minnesota to join the High-Speed outstanding gift price of $40.00 each (taxes and postage in Rail Compact. cluded) . This handsome stein depicts five famous railway In other Compact news, KyARP President Don locomotives. Each stein has a 14k gold collector's edition Maxwell reports that a bill enabling Kentucky to join the number on the bottom. The handle is shaped like a whistle High-Speed Rail Compact has been introduced in the Kentucky and the metal top has authentic piston-wheel action. This legislature. Amtrak authorized travel agents are upset at is a limited offer. Send your check for $40.00 for each the news that Amtrak plans to discontinue providing agents stein wanted, to: OARP, P.O. Box 653, Xenia, OH 45385. Your with tariff books, forcing them to tie up phone lines call stein(s) will be sent you directly from Cincinnati. Full ing a central reservations office for each and every fare refund guarantee if you are not satisfied with your stein. information request. OARP member Jim Weyrick, travel coun selor for the Akron Auto Club, says he consults his tariff book an average of ten times daily for information. MOREBAGGAGE & EXPRESS ... We've received w:Jrd fran MassARP' s President Kevin Gregoire that his or Amtrak expects to begin operating DOME COACHES on the CITY ganization will support OARP' s push for Amtrak service in Ohio's 3-C OF NEW ORLEANS and the CAPITOL LIMITED sometime next Spring Corridor linking directly with Amtrak' s lAKE SHORE LIMITED at Cleve following conversion of seven cars at the Beech Grove Main land making through trips possible between major Ohio cities and up tenance Facilty in Indiana at the cost of $450,000 per car. New York and New England state cities. Conrail has wasted no time in Indiana ARP is off to a good start! OARP understands they razing several old passenger depots in the greater Akron area along have 40 members already and that figure is growing. Those the former E-L lines at WadSw:Jrth, Ravenna and Garrettsville. The interested in membership ($10/year) should write to IndARP, Garrettsville depot was razed just before a deal could be finalized P.O. Box 744, Lafayette, IN 47902. OARP provided consider to purchase the structure for a local historical society! LOOK FOR able advice and assistance in getting IndARP rolling. CONRAIL TO ANNOUNCETHEIR INTENTICXi!TO ABANDONTHE "PANHANDLE"LINE, OARP member Bettie Nickell of Dayton, while riding this part of the fonrer NATIONAL LIMITED route, BE'IWEENPITTSBURGH AND Summer on Amtrak's SAN FRANCISCO ZEPHYR, chanced to meet NEWARK OHIO! and chat with the son of u.s. Senator Charles Percy. You ' OARP has learned that Amtrak has scrapped short-term never know who you will meet while riding on a train! plans to move back to Cincinnati's Union Terminal. It appears that any decision on C.U.T. will depend on the outcome of the pending pur Wearing her OARP button, member Berni Benz was riding one chase of the "Shelbyville" line between Cincinnati and Indianapolis. of Amtrak's Florida trains when another passenger scrutin ized our logo and remarked to Berni, "You look much too Did you watch "REAL PEOPLE" on September 22 and 29? EXCELLENT FREE young to be a member of the Ohio Association of Retired PUBLICITY for Amtrak despite the sophrnoric "REAL PEOPLE" humor. Persons!" (By the way, we hope to be able to once again OARP's own JOHN M8CANN was featured in the July issue of Dayton 'IV offer OARP buttons/badges for sale during 1983.) Channels 14/16 "Spectrum" Magazine on all the volunteer w:Jrk John does OARP concluded our planned CARDINAL advertising campaign for public television in Dayton. WHY? Between Chicago and the new (in connection with the NARP campaign) with radio spots on station at Hammnd/Whiting, Indiana, Amtrak trains will not accept WAVI/WDAO in Dayton. Our 60 second spot was cut by OARP local riders. But between New York City and Newark, New Jersey, Am- member Paul Bunting, himself a former radio newscaster. trak accepts local riders with open arms ! J e ff I..arrm , repor t er f or Governor Edmund Brown, Jr. of California has signed a bill the Daily Kent Stater, is planning a feature article on OARP and the setting up a four-member state commission with authority citizen push for better passenger train services in Ohio. Amtrak has to issue up to $1.25 billion in revenue bonds to develop a Japanese-style "bullet train" service between Los Angeles inaugurated fast, twice-daily METROLINEREXPRESS SERVICE between New York and Boston, including sit-down dining service. Free newspapers and San Diego. Amtrak is presently taking action to up will be offered to passengers each morning. Amtrak will inaugurate grade its on-board food services. Stainless steel uten sils will replace plastic flatware. Fresh, made to order the new SILVER PAlM between Miami and Tampa on November 21st. The breakfasts will again be available. Toaster ovens will new IN'IERNATIONAL LIMITED was inaugurated between Chicago and Toronto replace the microwave ovens. And the menus will be re (via Sarnia/Port Huron) on October 31st. The INTERNATIONALLIMITED vised listing additional, and more palatable, selections. will utilize both Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada equipment in through ser vice. The INTERNATIONALLIMITED replaces the BLUE WATERservice. A guest editorial by OARP's Al Wolf was prominently placed in the DaytonJournalHerald's page, October 25th. editorial 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111123 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 22 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 "th[ .53" is the official bi-monthly (Jan-Mar-May-Jul-se{ Nov) publication of the OHIO ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSEN GERS, a not-for-profit organization of some 700+ concerned citizens working on a volunteer basis to PROMOTE TRAVEL BY TRAIN AND TO HELP WORK FOR IMPROVED AND EXPANDED RAIL PAS SENGER SERVICES IN AND THROUGH OHIO. The work of OARP is supported solely through membership dues and by extra don ations of time, talents and dollars by our members. JOIN OARP TODAY in the fight for better trains! Annual dues are $5 (min.) and NEW members and $10 (min.) for membership re newals. 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