I ) the 6:53 DECEMBER "'1980' PULSIFER OFF ORTA BOARD Reappointment Caught tJ Poltical Crossfire OARP President Tom Pulsifer was appointed to the Board of the Ohio Rail Transportation Authority by Governor Rhodes in September 1976. His term expired October 10, 1980, but by law he was permitted to serve an additional sixty days. Thus his term on the ORTA Board actually expired at the end of business on December 9th. In August he ap plied to the Governor for reappointment. As you read this, Tom is still hoping for reappointment, having been told by the Governor's office that he is still under con sideration for re-appointment to a new 5-year term. Since February 1980 he has served as Chairman of ORTA's Board. So far Governor Rhodes has failed to act on Pulsifer's re appointment, or to fill the vacancy created by the legal expiration of Pulsifer's term. Pulsifer's reappointment is caught up in a political crossfire between Governor Rhodes and the Republican forces intent on derailing any further progress on ORTA's high-speed rail passenger plan until the people of Ohio have had opportunity to approve it --- and Rep. Arthur Wilkowski and key Democratic forces who have urged full speed ahead despite Ohio's serious financial troubles. In particular, the crossfire has con cerned itself with the controversial ORTA Test Track which has been vigorously opposed by the Governor. Ironically, it was Pulsifer's abstention vote at a special ORTA Board Meeting on December 8th which temporarily brought the Test Track project to a grinding halt! A legal move by Rep. Wilkowski on December 15th to force Governor Rhodes to fill the vacancy on ORTA's Board was itself derailed by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge George Tyack who gave the State Attorney General's office 28 days to file an answer on behalf of Rhodes, thus giving the Governor a chance to make the appointment after the first of the new year when such appointment... [continued on page 3]
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issue #38 The OHIO ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS - P.O. Box 653, Xenia, OH 45385 - 513-372-9868 PRESIDENT Thomas R. Pulsifer, 1751 Wilshire, P.O. Box 371, Xenia 45385 513-372-9868 VICE-PRES Rodger J. Sillars, 2521 Euclid Hts. Blvd., Cleveland Hts. 44106 216-932-2781 SECRETARY William C. Glasser, 3815 Ashwood Drive, N.W., Canton 44708 216-478-1003 ~ TREASURER David S. Marshall, 2435 Ridgeway Road, Oakwood (Dayton) 45419 513-296-0227 MEMBERSHIP SERVICES John L. Kempton, 1954 E. Oldgate Road, Sandusky 44870 :g 419-625-5556 INFORMATION SERVICES John T. McCann, 1341 Red Bluff Dr., W. Carrollton 45449 513-435-5066 REGIONAL COORDINATORS are your local contact persons who represent OARP: "REGION 216" / NORTHEASTERN OHIO tJ CLEVELAND AREA James Stevenson, 192 Franklin Drive, Berea 44017 216-234-5885 AKRON-CANTON AREA J. Howard Harding, 489 Overwood Road, Akron 44313 216-867-5507 $ YOUNGSTOWN-WARREN G. Douglas Hudson, 3981 Greenmont Dr., SE, Warren 44484 216-856-2557 ,., ASHTABULA-CONNEAUT Bill Hutchison, Jr., 5851 S. Ridge w., Ashtabula 44004 216-969-1634 ELYRIA-LORAIN AREA Joseph F. Brove, 3902 Valley View Drive, Lorain 44053 216-282-2130 "REGION 419" / NORTHWESTERN OHIO 0 TOLEDO AREA Willard B. Edson, 1008 Eton Road, Toledo 43615 419-536-0643 LIMA AREA John H. Keller, 721 Woodward Avenue, Lima 45805 419-224-9936 SANDUSKY AREA John L. Kempton, 1954 E. Oldgate Road, Sandusky 44870 419-625-5556 d MANSFIELD AREA Richard A. Fry, P.O. Box 381, Bellville 44813 419-886-2875 "REGION 513" / SOUTHWESTERN OHIO ~ DAYTON AREA Albert E. Wolf, 1497 Melrose Avenue, Dayton 45409 513-294-7110 CINCINNATI AREA[2) W. Mike Weber, 14 Joywood Drive, Cincinnati 45218 513-851-7959 -< James A. "Jake" Kroger, 5250 Charloe St., Cincinnati 45227 513-731-8062 OHIO VALLEY AREA Ronald D. Garner, 1884 Kress Road, Mt. Orab 45154 513-444-3098 "REGION 614" / CENTRAL & SOUTHEASTERN OHIO COLUMBUS AREA David J. Lebold, 2650 Neil Avenue, #4, Columbus 43202 614-261-1549 SOUTHEASTERN OHIO David D. Dawson, 318 West Main St., McArthur 45651 614-596-5562 0 ro 0 The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RAILROAD PASSENGERS - John R. "Jack" Martin, Pres. ro 417 New Jersey Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20003 202-546-1550 so tro Ross Capon, Exec. Dir. - Barry l'Villiams, Asst. Dir. (l)t"j ti'i NARP REGIONAL DIRECTORS (Region VI/Ohio-Michigan-Indiana) FROM OHIO: (1) J. Howard Harding, 489 Overwood Road, Akron 44313 216-867-5507 1-'() David S. Marshall, 2435 Ridgeway Road, Dayton 45419 513-296-0227 - rtro 1-'P. William Snorteland , 2122 Overbrook Avenue, Lakewood 44107 216-221-1722 1.0 PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE! MAKE PHONE CALLS TO OTHERS AT REASONABLE HOURS! THANK YOU! oocort
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Dick Amtrak's Fred Frayer met writes, "They have a small show healthy potential -- two of them already have quite a and spoke with the group bit of existing service, the other two serving the gamblers but nice place for Amtrak pas at Cincinnati where they sengers to wait for the BROAD in Las Vegas and Atlantic City plus the "home" districts of also toured the Union Ter key Congressmen, Florio (NJ) and Cannon (NV). Across the WAY. They can also get coffee minal complex. On the re or food in the restaurant country, officials of the National Conference of State there". turn trip to Athens the Railway Officials (NCSRO) have expressed alarm over the The old station ruin porter demonstrated how all FRA ranking and may move to ask for a re-study. In any the sleeping car accomoda ] at Crestline is completely event, there appear to be a lot of people who are not at gone (Hallelujah!) and the tions worked. Dave wrote all happy with the ranking of the EMERGING CORRIDORS. platforms have been resurfaced that "the train crew went and the area surrounding the out of their way to make Composite With State* new YMCA has been landscaped. our trip an enjoyable one Score Factor Added The new facility is situated and an informative one" . BEST 1. Los Angeles-San Diego 2.81 3.51 north of the BROADWAYroute 2. Philadelphia-Atlantic City 2.67 3.34 tracks and east of the ex-NYC 3. New York-Buffalo 2.51 3.14 3-C Corridor route tracks. OARP extends our heartfelt 4. Los Angeles-Las Vegas 2.29 2.86 H. sympathy to John Keller MARGINAL 5. New York-Albany 45 81 The Amtrak station facility and his family of Lima on l. l. OARP once termed "worse than the death of his wife, 6. Chicago-Detroit l. 08 l. 35 primitive" has become one of Charlotte, on December 1? 7. Washington-Richmond l. 20 l. 20 the best unmanned Amtrak sta 8. San Jose-Reno .96 l. 20 Mrs. Keller was also a 9. "Texas tion facilities in Ohio. member of OARP. Triangle" 1.13 1.13 10. Philadelphia-Harrisburg .87 l. 09 : 11. Chicago-St. Louis .85 l. 06 12. Dallas-Houston l. 04 l. 04 DOUG HUDSON ASSISTING SALEM OFFICIALS TO GET AMTRAK SERVICE 13. Dallas-San Antonio l. 02 l. 02 Salem, Ohio, wants Amtrak's BROADWAYLIMITED to stop there. BOTTOM 14. Chicago-Milwaukee .79 .87 The proposal has merit. Salem has a usable station facil 15. San Jose-Sacramento .69 .86 ity. And Salem is the closest BROADWAYLIMITED route point 16. Miami-Jacksonville .85 .85 to Youngstown and Warren. OARP' s y oungs t own/W arren Area 17. CHICAGO-CLEVELAND .70 .77 Regional Coordinator Doug Hudson is helping civic leaders 18. Chicago-Twin Cities .65 . 72 and community officials in Salem with their push for Amtrak 19. CHICAGO-CINCINNATI .65 .72 service. Al Cleveland, Executive Secretary of the Salem 20. Seattle-Portland .56 . 56 Area Chamber of Commerce, initiated correspondence with Am 21. CLEVELAND-CINCINNATI .34 .34 trak on this matter in mid-September. Doug Hudson is also 22. Houston-San Antonio .34 .34 drumming up support for the Salem stop among various sources 23. Atlanta-Savannah .02 .02 in Warren and Youngstown. Historically, in PRR days, quite 24. Atlanta-Nashville 0 0 25. Boston-New Haven 0 0 a few of the east-west passenger trains did stop at Salem, via Spfld. due to its proximity to the larger Mahoning Valley cities. *The report gave a state a factor of 1.0 for either no com mitment or a minimum level of commitment to passenger rail development. More active states were given a factor of OARP is investigating Plans for a scenic railway along either 1 · 1 or 1 · 25 · The report ignored any speed level o the feasibility of a Ohio's Little Miami River (ex-PRR right-of-way) are now being ver 79mph. It also reversed policy set in an earlier re small display at the adjust port by de-emphasizing frequency as a ridership-boosting Columbus Travel, ed to have the railway link down criteria. Fuel efficiency of bus, auto and air are assumed Sports and Vacation town Cincinnati with the Kings Is to improve over time, while rail fuel efficiency stays the Show to be held at land amusement park. Tracks are same. The makes some such the State Fairgrounds now gone all the way from Clare up report strange conclusions; as Roxanna Greene County. Sev that $117 million would be needed to make Chicago-Detvoit February 7-15, 1981. to in a 79mph corridor with three trains daily each way. This Cost may be prohibit eral groups in S.W. Ohio are inter ive, but we'll see if ested in the Cincinnati- Kings Is line already has that frequency with 70-79mph speeds! we can find a way •.. land railway proposal. 5 4 ( HEARINGS( .TED ON THE FRA OARPMAY SPONSOR RAIL TOUR STATION IMPROVEMENTS NOTED OARP MEMBER MARR{,.. 1 PROMOTED FOLLOWING OARP COMPLAINTS EMERGINGCORRIDORS REPORT TOMAY 81 RAILFAIR/PAGEANT We extend our congratulations MADE IN LAST "6:53" ISSUE to OARP member BILL SIEVERS, OARP has just received IN HISTORICSACRAMENTO~ CA! In the last issue of "the formerly of Philadelphia, who word that hearings will Subject to approval by your 6:53" we noted some poor was married on October 25th. be scheduled early in conditions at a few of the Both Bill and his wife Janet 1981 on the EMERGING COR OARP officers, we would like sponsor an unmanned Amtrak stations are Amtrak employees. Up un RIDORS and that at least to escorted rail in Ohio. Shortly after til the end of October Bill two (and possibly three) tour, May 03-09, 1981, from was supervisor of ticketing Chicago to Sacramento and re "the 6:53" was distributed hearings will be held in we got word from Dave Daw at Philadelphia's 30th Street Ohio. It looks certain turn via Amtrak's SUPERLINER son and David Aiken Station. At that time, how equipped SAN FRANCISCO ZEPHYR that that hearings will be held :~the "Amshack" shelter at ever, he was awarded a much in CLEVELAND and CINCIN and attend the RailFair and Athens had been cleaned up sought after position, as the NATI. Attempts are being Pageant which will take place ll and the stored track mat manager of station services made presently to schedule in Sacramento May 02-10. The erials had been removed. in Portland, Oregon. OARP ex a third hearing for COLUM cost would be around $287 per tends our best wishes to Bill person and would include the We also got word from John BUS or DAYTON. OARP has in his new duties along the round trip train trip from Kempton in Sandusky that "Northwest Corridor". requested [through Cong. Chicago, one night's lodging the "powers that be" moved Tony P. Hall] information in Sacramento, and admission fast to install the long on the proceedings and we to the RailFair/Pageant. We awaited light over the pay have requested time to ap Your OARP President has re could assist with individual phone on the platform at sponded the a pear and participate. As arrangements from Ohio points the Sandusky Amtrak sta to editor of to and from Chicago. tion. "railfan-oriented" publication this issue goes to press Early It seems likely in Ohio who alleged that OARP we do not have details on interest in this rail tour that our publicizing of recommended "more Amtrak these hearings. As soon will help us pull it off suc the adverse conditions did trains on the schedule for the as we get the details, we cessfully. More details will some good in these cases. hobbyist and railfan", and- will notify our OARP of be announced. Please let Tom Now we have found that Am that the presidential candid ficers and regional co Pulsifer know if you'd be in schedule ates' stands, as reported in ordinators who act as trak information the October "6:53" will terested in this trip. It posted at the C&O depot reflected "clearinghouses" for infor would be good if OARP could OARP policy and recommend (Amtrak station location) ations. mation in this matter. get involved more often in in Richmond, Indiana, is While OARP welcomes We intend to do what we sponsoring rail tours such as out of date. And OARP opportunity for constructive can to urge better treat this proposed one. Respond! member Vic Clausen of Peru debate on the issues and con ment for Ohio. The FRA reports the same problem cerns; let's make sure that ranking appears to be exists at the Peru Amtrak the facts are straight first! blatantly political, with DREWLEWIS NAMED DOT SECRETARY stop. OARP feels that the If Amtrak exists only for the and trains serving the politic posting of ACCURATE, UP-TO hobbyist railfan, there ians and not the people. President-elect Reagan has ap are sure a lot of 'em riding pointed Drew Lewis of Phila -DATE INFORb~TIONis essen This is the same old grind at Amtrak stations, around the U.S.A. every day! delphia as Secretary of Trans tial And the listing- of the candid which explains why Keyser, portation. Lewis, who comes ESPECIALLY at the unattend WV, Amtrak and ates' positions, properly has trains from a railroad family, is ed stops where there is no why Columbus and Dayton do and one around to ask when one credited to Sierra as the trustee chief executive source, in NO WAY carried any not. We must keep up the officer of the Reading Company has a question. We'll fight for trains for the and also served as Republican look into these situations OARP endorsement. It was pre people! state chairman for Pennsylvan and hope to report prog sented as information only. ress shortly. ia. OARP understands Lewis OARP member RON WRIGHT of has on his desk a small sign DOUG HUDSON FEATURED IN NEWS! Trotwood, OH and others reading "Profit! Pr~fit!Pro Our own DOUG HUDSON was sub helped save the former PRR fit!". If this is any indica ) y E s ! ---- OARP I s NEW depot there and renovated tion of priorities, Amtrak and BUMPER STICKERS ject of a full-page photo fea mass in general could ARE IN STOCK AWAITING YOUR ture article in the Warren it for headquarters for the transit Sunday Tribune Magazine on local historical society. be in for rough times. We ex ORDER. Order form may be Another fine example of re pect to have more to report on found elsewhere in this the 2nd of November, The art using a railroad station as Drew Lewis in the next issue issue of "the 6:53". icle, entitled "Rail Advocate" was written by Gene Harbrecht. a community asset. 6 of "the 6:53". HELP SPREAD THE WORD! 7 ( Dayton would be directly served, thus ruling oj( _ohe idea WILL THI£ ~CO!VIETHE NEW "NATIONAL LIMITED" ROUTE ? ? ? ? ? of bypassing Dayton with a bus connection to and from a I stop at Piqua on the Columbus-Urbana-Union City mainline. In OARP's opinion, running time over this route would not be too much longer than it was during the last days of the National Limited over the Richmond mainline. The "West Manchester Shuffle" would probably consume an extra 10- 15 minutes. Hopefully the dispatcher would cooperate with prompt remote handling of switches and signals. A sweeping curve leads to and from the Cleveland- St. Louis mainline just west of the Ansonia Tower, There should be no delay l here at all. A h earlng . was sche du 1 e d ln . Was h.lng t on a t th e II FRA offices on December 2nd concerning Conrail's applica tion to discontinue the signals between Dayton and Indiana polis. At one point Amtrak said it would ask to retain the signals between Dayton and West Manchester only, but just a Map shows Conrail Lines few days prior to the hearing (which was then cancelled) (approx. to scale) trp Amtrak dropped its objections. OARP assumes that, rather than to pay Conrail's inflated charges for maintaining the NCINNATI signals for no passenger trains, Amtrak would elect to pay OARP has learned""' that apparently Amtrak and Conrail have less in the long run to rehabilitate the signals at the "made a deal" affecting future restoration of east-west Am time when train service might be restored, Signal cables trak service on the former National Limited route through and the cab signal system along this line are pretty well Ohio and Indiana. As you know, Conrail has applied for shot anyway, reflecting Conrail's lack of any preventive permission to discontinue the block signal system on the maintenance over the past several years. OARP had made former National Limited main line between Dayton and Ind tentative plans to appear and testify at that hearing, had ianapolis via Richmond. OARP has also learned that early it gone through. We understand that, when Conrail applies in 1981 Conrail is expected to apply for permission to aban for abandonment of portions of the Dayton- Indianapolis don trackage on several segments of that former PRR route. line (the Dodson- West Manchester segment is sure to be in IF the National Limited is restored, it appears it will fol cluded), that Amtrak then will object so as to preserve the low the solid line routing in the above map. This means the Dodson- West Manchester track (a fast, high-speed line) for only segment which would not be an active Conrail freight future service restoration, We reported in our last issue line is the 10.4 miles between Dodson and West Manchester. that a rail had been removed from this line at Dodson. We Amtrak would be liable for 100% of the user costs over that found on December Jrd that Conrail had put the rail back in 10.4 miles. The West Manchester- Ansonia line is the former place-- with new angle bars and bolts and insulation(!), NYCRR "Cincinnati Northern" branch which now carries quite We assume this was done primarily for the Amtrak/FRA "high a bit of Conrail freight. Conrail has installed welded rail railer" inspection trip made over this trackage on November and CTC on this line. It is in good shape and passenger 18th. The rail is still in place with one end spiked out trains could run at 60 mph over most of the route, Due to of place. We also had one sighting of the Amtrak inspection the situation of the connecting track at West Manchester, train the following day on the "Cincinnati Northern" line at an Amtrak train would have to do an "Amtrak Shuffle" backup a point south of Greenville. Apparently this train took a move enabling passengers to view the village three times side trip over this line while enroute from Columbus to the moving on The before to Dayton or to Indianapolis. connect Beech Grove facility at Indianapolis. We know it left Col ing track is about 1 mile long and was built in 1968 to by umbus at ?:JOam for the west via the Urbana - Union City pass the village on the south. It is used today by Conrail route. Consist was an F40PH, an Amcoach and Track Inspect as a passing track and by a local switching fertilizer cars ion Car 10000. This same train, on November 17th covered in and out of Eldorado to the only active freight shipper the J-C Corridor route from Cleveland to Cincinnati, then on the line between Richmond and Dodson. A short)Jonnect ran from Cincinnati to Dayton to Columbus on the 18th. The ing track with extremely tight curvature exists in the N.E. purpose was to inspect the J-C Corridor as part of the "E quadrant at West Manchester, but this track is in active merging Corridors" Plan (Amtrak/FRA). Several OARP members use as a team track by a fuel oil dealer and a feed mill. saw the inspection train on the 18th, and ensuing phone calls proved that OARP' s "grapevine" is alive and well. The The West Manchester- Ansonia route opens up the possibility inspection train was parked for the night in Columbus at the of service at Greenville, Ohio. It would also mean Muncie former Amtrak station where it was visited by member Karl J, and Anderson (both college towns) would be served at the Gelfer who spoke with some of the Amtrak personnel. insistence of Indiana politicians. It would also mean that 9 8 1 ( . ( OUR HOPES FOR A SUCCESSFUL AKRON AREA OARP Ml JRS HOLD AND SPEEDY RECOVERY go out SUCCESSFUL MEETING WITH AREA 1'10 W AVAILABLE! to OARP Regional Coordina STATE LEGISLATORS DECEMBER 6 tor BILL HUTCHISON who is recuperat1ng from OARP's Akron Area Regional surgery Coordinator, Howard Harding OARP BUMPER STICKERS on a collapsed lung. His he and home 5851 South reported that three Thanks to OARP member Mike Weber and his Champion Screen address is other active OARP members Ridge West, OH Printing Company in Cincinnati, OARP is pleased to announce Ashtabula, from greater Akron (Jim Wey the availability of OARP BUMPER STICKERS in six different 44004. rick, Gary Dillon and Paul styles. Our BUMPER STICKERS measure 3" x 9" and are print Woodring) arranged and held ed in white lettering on a dark blue background on "out a successful two- hour meet door" which makes BUMPER STICKERS removable type vinyl the ~ AMTRAK TIMETABLES ARE ing with four area State leg if you should ever wish to do so. The trend today is to a STILL AVAILABLE! islators in Akron on the smaller style of BUMPER STICKER, hence the 3" x9" size we 'ti morning of December 6th. At selected. You can even stick one on your Honda! As a service to OARP mem tending were Sen. Kenneth OARP's bers we can provide you a BUMPER STICKERS carry the following messages plus, in Cox, Rep. Vern Cook, Rep. copy of either Amtrak's Thomas Sawyer and Rep. Rob smaller letters, OARP's name and address: National Train Timetable ert Nettle. * I'D RATHER BE ON A PASSENGER TRAIN (form A) or the East- Mld The legislators were each presented with * ASK ME ABOUT TRAINS $1.00 west folder (form 7) that * I'D RATHER BE ON THE LAKE SHORE LIMITED shows all Amtrak service packets of OARP and NARP mat * I'D RATHER BE ON THE BROADWAYLIMITED through Ohio. erials plus copies of pro To help us rail clippings and informa * I'D RATHER BE ON THE CARDINAL EACH serve you, please send a * I'D RATHER BE ON THE SHENANDOAH self-addressed stamped tion. Discussion centered We're asking just $1.00 donation for each BUMPER STICKER BUSINESS LETTER SIZE en around the ORTA High-Speed and we'll take care of the shipping/handling. Use this velope with your request Rail Passenger Plan plus con convenient ORDER FORM: for either timetable. For cern over the northeast Ohio the big National schedules ORTA Test Track facility. ======affix 41¢ in postage, 15¢+ The OARP representatives re 13¢+1)¢. iterated OARP's policy of INDICATE DESCRIPTION For the East - support for the long-term QUANTITY Midwest schedules affix goals of the ORTA Plan with I'D RATHEREE ONA PASSENGERTRAIN just one 15¢ stamp. short-term goals of establish Cur ing and increasing Amtrak rent schedules are good ser ASKME ABOUT TRAINS vices in Ohio. The legislat thru January )1, 1981. At ors expressed some interest that time we will provide in the possibility of capital I'D RATHERBE ONTHE LAKESHORE LI~ITED new schedules. We are improvements spending (i.e., I'D RATHERBE ONTHE BROADWAY LIMITED getting an increasing num purchase of equipment) as a ber of requests for these means to achieve intrastate I'D RATHERBE ONTHE CARDINAL timetables and OARP is Amtrak intercity services. glad to be able to serve OARP appreciates the efforts I'D RATHERBE ONTHE SHErlANDOAH our members this way by put forth in arranging and - providing current Amtrak holding this meeting. Such TOTAL schedules and information. meetings help put the case for HERE X $1,00 DONATIONEACH= $ ENCLOSED passenger rail in a good light ~ and they help put OARP in good R E M I N DE R - Our OARP stead We would encour- YOURNAJ''!E _ also, ______minimum age other Regional Coordina- for membership renewals is tors and active OARP members ADDRESS______$10,00 (not $5.00), Yet to make positive, personal we always seem to have a contact with their own State CITY-STATE-ZIP few members who forget, and legislators, Do not be afraid ______that necessitates time and to make contact -- the legis postage expense whichcould lators DO appreciate your con PLEASE MAKECHECKS PAYABLETO O.A.R.P. AND MAIL TO OARPJ be used for better purpose. cern. OH ll P.O. BOX653J XENIAJ 4538510 l ( RAIL TRIP REPO' . ORMS ARE .....-.vf )' --..... ·•·...... REVISED AND REPRiNTED ---- OARP has extensively re vised and reprinted its • ~ .. rail trip report forms •, that we ask our members to ' fill out and return to us .. after each rail traip they ' '- make, in and out of Ohio. •, The forms are now titled .~>f.\ ' ' RAIL TRIP AND STATION RE ' ' ,, PORT FORM. Two identical . '•. ,,'', l·~ sections cover the station ' ' ' $ i \ ! i where you boarded your train and the station where you got off. The third section covers the train trip itself. The new format was developed cooperatively with person nel at ORTA which will use """' a similar form and format for trip and station con dition rating. Th e new OARP RAIL TRIP & STATION REPORT FORM is printed on 8~x14"paper and folded so as to fit easily into pocket or purse for trav- elers. We'll send you 4 of the new forms if you'll send us a stamped (15¢), self-addressed BUSINESS LETTER SIZE envelope. The previous trip report forms are still valid, We encourage you, regard less of the kind of form you have, to make out a report for us on each rail The Washington section of a head end power-equipped Broadway Limited---with diesel locomotives trip you take, It doesn't under the catenary---leaves Washington's Union Station for Chicago. The Broadway was the take much time to fill one second Amtrak train---the Lake Shore Limited was the first---to be completely equipped with out and send it in. It head end powered cars. (Amtrak Photo) helps us keep tabs on the quality of service you find so that we can be SEASONS GREETINGS T 0 Y 0 U FROM OARP Editor's Note: This "6:5J" will better prepared in sup reach you shortly after Christ porting needs for service Your OARP President and "6:53" Editor would to take the mas, We are trying a different improvements as well as opportunity to wish you and yours a most Holiday printer and collating/binding to pay compliments for Season and the Best of service in an effort to save $$$ outstanding services rend Wishe~ without sacrificing time or ered to rail travelers. quality. Also, please forgive our delay in getting the comput erized mailing labels updated. JOIN & SUPPORT OARP TODAY! We're working on 'em! -trp 12 13 1 ~ REMINDE( Region VI NARP WHAT'S IN A NAME? ( Director Howard -="" ===--= OHIOLEGISLATIVE UPDATE 97+h ~ONGRESS Harding requests that new by Howard Harding candidates for NARP Director At its Detroit meeting, the U.S. SENATE:Howard M. Metzenbaum-D (term did not expire) (Reg. VI/OH-MI-IN) should NARP Board created a commit John Glenn-D (re-elected) notify Ross Capon at NARP in tee to study the question of Washington immediately. The changing the organization's U.S. HOUSEOF REPRESENTATIVES: Recapitulation I R-13 D-10 name. Chairman Charlie Dunn qualifications ares Dist. Willis Gradison-R/Cincinnati (re-elected) a) NARP membership (FL) has asked for an infor 1st b) Regional residency mal poll of the NARP members 2nd Thomas Luken-D/Cincinnati (re-elected) views on this question. 3rd Tony P. Hall-D/Dayton (re-elected) c) Willingness to spend the 4th Tennyson Guyer-R/Findlay (re-elected) time and money to partic Please send your comments to Latta-R/Bowling Green ipate in two meetings a 5th Delbert (re-elected) me (address on DIRECTORY 6th BOB McEWEN-R/Hillsboro year -- one in Washington page) as I am on the name (replaces William Harsha) and the other one (Fall change study committee. 7th Clarence Brown-R/Urbana (re-elected) ~981)in San Francisco. d) Sufficient maturity to Issues behind the question: 8th Thomas Kindness-R/Hamilton (re-elected) 9th ED WEBER-R/Toledo deal with the divergent 1) A four-word name invites (defeated Thomas Ashley) perspectives present in a confusion, thus is usual national group. lOth Clarence Miller-R/Lancaster (re-elected) ly gotten wrong by the 11th J. W. Stanton-R/Painesville (re-elected) media and misunderstood 12th BOB SHAMANSKY-D/Columbus by the general public. (defeated Sam Devine) 2) "NARP" and "OARP" are just so much meaningless alphabet 13th Donald Pease-D/Oberlin (re-elected) soup to most outsiders. 14th John Seiberling-D/Akron (re-elected) J) Any group whose name contains "rail" or "railroad" will 15th Chalmers Wylie-R/Worthington (re-elected) be looked upon with suspicion by both legislators and 16th Ralph Regula-R/Navarre (re-elected) the general public. It is assumed to be another tunnel 17th John Ashbrook-R/Johnstown (re-elected) visioned selfish interest group, whatever the reality. 18th Douglas Applegate-D/Steubenville (re-elected) (American Trucking Association, American Automobile As 19th Lyle Williams-R/Warren (re-elected) sociation, etc., all suggest selfish interests at odds 20th Mary Rose Oakar-D/Cleveland (re-elected) with ours, don't they?) 21st Louis Stokes-D/Cleveland (re-elected) 4) OARP and NARP have each developed credibility with cer 22nd DENNIS ECKART-D/Euclid tain other groups and individuals. This could be weak (replaces Charles Vanik) ened by a name change, temporarily. 23rd Ronald Mottl-D/Parma (re-elected) 5) Within the pro-rail fraternity, NARP is widely recog nized as the consumer - advocate group and a name change could affect that position. LONGTIME FOE OF RAILROADS, SAM DEVINE DEFEATED IN ELECTION Sam Devine, 64, a 22-year veteran in Congress from Ohio's OARP member John Marquis of OARP MEMBERSHIPRENEWALS: 12th District, was upset in his re-election bid by Demo Bryan (newest stop on Am crat Bob Shamansky, 53, of Columbus. Shamansky used TV tr~'s Lake Shore Limited A new year is at hand and we want remind you about our ads very effectively in his campaign which he financed route) keeps daily tabs on to largely through loans. Shamansky's campaign reportedly arrivals and departures (a OARP membershlp renewal fact noted recently by the schedule: IF YOURLAST NAME cost $lOO,OOO. Devine's continued tenure in Congress was Toledo Blade). In the BEGINS WITH A thru F, YOUR an active concern of OARP due to Devine's clear antagonism first month of service, o RENEWALNOTICE IS SENT DURING towards railroad transportation, both passenger and freight. )00 passengers boarded THE lst QUARTEROF THE YEAR; OARP passed a resolution in our November 1979 meeting in ver ~i the Lake Shore at Bryan, in G thru L ---- 2nd quarter Cleveland to do what we could to work for Devine's defeat. cluding one day when twenty Well, we did what we could, which wasn't very much, but we riders reportedly got on the M thru R ---- )rd quarter L helped in our small way to bring about the change in Ohio's train. OARP has received S thru Z ---- 4th quarter 12th District. Our records indicate quite a few OARP mem copies of an Btxll" how-to bers residing in ~he12th District. They are the ones who find-the-Amtrak-station map, Cooperation with this system obviously helped the most in bringing about the defeat of produced locally in Bryan, has been very good, We are Sam Devine. This election upset shows, once again, that which is assisting area res sending "second notice" post in the work of OARP it is the LOCAL EFFORT which counts idents in using Amtrak. cards if you forget to renew. the most in achieving success in what we want. 14 15 I Dist. ( OHIOLEG( TIVE UPDATE 114THGENERAL ASSE1BLY ( Dist. ~Branstool-D/Utica 50th Healy-D/Can~on OHIOSENATE: Recapitulation I R-18 D-15 2nd Wargo-D/Lisbon 51st Gilmartin-D/Youngstown REPUBLICAN MAJORITY 3rd PETRD-R/Cleveland 52nd Vukovich-D/Youngstown Paul Gillmor/Port Clinton, President (REPLACES JIM BETTS) 53rd Camera-D/Lorain Thomas VanMeter/Ashland, President Pro Tempore 4th Colonna-D/Brook Park 54th BOWMAN-R/Elyria Stanley Aronoff/Cincinnati, Asst. Pres. Pro Tempore 5th Panehal-D/Cleveland (DEFEATED JOHN BARA) DEMOCRAT MINORITY 6th Sweeney-D/Cleveland 55th Nader-D/Warren Harry Meshel/Youngstown, Minority Leader 7th Rocce-D/Oleveland , l 56th Williams-D/Niles Neal Zimmers/Dayton, Assistant Minority Leader 8th Bonnano-D/Cleveland 57th Donham-R/Middletown Charles Butts/Cleveland, Minority Whip 9th James-D/Cleveland 58th Fox-R/Hamilton Tim McCormack/Euclid, Minority Floor Leader lOth Bell-O/Cleveland 59th Hughes-D/Mentor 1st Dist. M. Ben Gaeth-R/Defiance (unexpired term) 11th Mahnic-D/Garfield Hts. 60th Hartley-D/Springfield 2nd Paul E. Gillmor-R/Port Clinton (re-elected) 12th Po pe-R/Parma 6lst Brown-D/Mansfield 13th I. Thompsljrt~D/Clev.eiland62nd Begala-D/Kent 3rd Theodore M. Gray-R/Columbus (unexpired term) 63rd Zehner-D/Yellow 4th Donald E. Lukens-R/Middletown (re-elected) 14th Boyle-D/Cleveland Hts. Springs 5th Neal F. Zimmers, Jr.-D/Dayton (unexpired term) 15th J. Thompson-D/Cleveland 64th Rose-R/Lima 16th FISHER-D/Cleveland 65th O'BRIEN-R/Cincinnati 6th Charles J. Curran-D/Dayton (re-elected) (REPLACES R. A. TAFT II) 7th Richard H. Finan-R/Cincinnati (unexpired term) (REPLACES LEHMAN) 8th Stanley J. Aronoff-R/Cincinnati (re-elected) 17th Hatchadorian-R/Mayfield 66th Hughes-R/Columbus 18th Eckart-D/Euclid 67th GUERRA-R/Englewood 9th William F. Bowen-D/Cincinnati (unexpired term) (DEFEATED CHRISTMAN) lOth MIKE DeWINE-R/Cedarville (DEFEATED MAHONEY) 19th Van Vyven-R/Sharonville 11th 20th Pottenger-R/Cincinnati 68th AMSTUTZ-R/Orrville Marigene Valiquette-D/Toledo (unexpired term) (REPLACES J. JOHNSON) 12th STEVEN MAURER-D/Botkins (DEFEATED R. L. DITTO) 21st Luebbers-D/Cincinnati 13th Ron Nabakowski-D/Amherst (unexpired term) 22nd Mayer-R/Cincinnati 69th Galbraith-R/Maumee 14th Cooper Snyder- /Blanchester (re-elected) 23rd Mallory-D/Cincinnati 70th D. Johnson-R/No. Canton 7lst T. J. Carney-D/Boardman John R. Kasich~R/Columbus term) 24th Tranter-D/Cincinnati 15th (unexpired 72nd Tansey-R/Vermilion 16th Mike Schwarzwalder-D/Columbus (re-elected) 25th Rankin-D/Cincinnati Oakley Collins-R/Ironton (unexpired term) 26th Fix-R/Cincinnati 73rd Nixon-R/Lebanon 17th 27th DAV:DDSON··R/Westerville 74th Wojtanowski-D/Chstrlnd. 18th Marcus Roberto-D/Ravenna (re-elected) 75th Saxbe-R/Mechanicsburg 19th Thomas VanMeter-R/Ashland (unexpired' I term) (REPLACES A. NORRIS) 20th Sam Speck-R/New Concord (re-elected) 28th DESHLER-R/Columbus 76th Turner-R/Mt. Vernon M. (REPLACES O'NEILL) 77th HAINES-R/Xenia 21st Morris Jackson-D/Cleveland (unexpired term) (REPLACES McEWEN) 22nd BEN M. SKALL-R/Lyndhurst (DEFEATED CALABRESE) 29th Brown-D/Columbus 30th Stinziano-D/Columbus 78th Hughes-R/Huntsville 23rd Charles L. Butts-D/Cleveland (unexpired term) 79th Manahan-R/Defiance 24th GARY SUHADOLNIK-R/Parma (DEFEATED J. STANO) 31st BEATTY-D/Columbus (REPLACES P. HALE) 80th Locker-D/Anna 25th Paul R. Mat1a-R/Cleveland (unex~iredterm) 8lst Netzley-R/Laura 26th Paul Pfeifer-R/Bucyrus (re-elected) 32nd Conley-D/Columbus 27th Oliver Ocasek-D/Akron (unexpired term) 33rd Gilmore-R/Columbus 82nd Oxley-R/Findlay 28th Kenneth R. Cox-D/Barberton (re-elected) 34th Orlett-D/Dayton 83rd Brown-R/Perrysburg 29th Thomas F. Walsh-R/Canton (unexpired term) 35th Fries-D/Dayton 84th Deering-D/Monroeville 30th BILL RESS-R/New Philadelphia (DEFEATEDMILLESON) 36th McLin-D/Dayton 85th Damschroder-R/Fremont 31st T1m McCormack-D/Euclid (unexpired term) 37th BALLWEG-R/Dayton 86th McClaskey-R/Marion 32nd Thomas E. Carney-D/Girard (re-elected) (REPLACES P. LEONARD) 87th Malott-D/Mt. Orab 33rd Harry Meshel-D/Youngstown (unexpired term) 38th Corbin-R/Dayton 88th Shoemaker-D/Bournevl. 39th Cook-D/Cuyahoga Falls 89th Riffe-D/New Boston 40th Sawyer-D/Akron 90th WILLIAMS-R/Lancaster OHIOHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:Recapitulation I D-56 R-43 (DEFEATEO MADDUX) DEMOCRAT MAJORITY 41st Nettle-D/Barberton Vern Riffe/New Boston, Speaker 42nd Crossland-D/Akron 9lst Ball-R/Athens i 43rd Skeen-D/Akron 92nd James-D/Proctorville Barney Quilter/Toledo, Speaker Pro Tempore 93rd Batchelder-R/Medina William Mallory/Cincinnati, Majority Floor Leader ~ 44th Karmol-R/Toledo Vern Cook/Cuyahoga Falls, Asst. Maj. Floor Leader 45th Jones-D/Toledo 94th Ross-R/Coshocton Arthur Wilkowski/Toledo, Majority Whip 46th Wilkowski-0/Toledo 95th Johnson-R/Cambridge Quilter-D/Toledo 96th Hinig-D/New Phila. REPUBLICAN MINORITY 47th 97th Boggs-D/Jefferson Corwin Nixon/Lebanon, Minority Leader 48th Maier-R/Massillon W. Ben Rose/Lima, Assistant Minority Leader 49th Red Ash-R/Canton 98th Bowers-D/Steubenville 99th NEY-R/Bellaire Helen Fix/Cincinnati, Minority Whip continued, next column ••• 16 1 17 ---ulEFEATED WAYNEHAYS) I 1 ( OARP made available ( AMTRAK At . ROBBED, ATTACKED OARP 1981 COLORCALENVARS REAVY! our free-standing dis AND RAPED AT CLEVELAND DEPOT play sign, brochures, FfDERAL AID TO TRANSPORTAnON ••• ANV THEY'RE LOOKINGGREAT! A female Amtrak ticket agent and back issues of FISCAL YEARS 1971-n was robbed of ap "the 6:53" at a mid attacked, We Jtec.ei..ved oWt new 19 81 OARP November Railroad Flea proximately $4,000 in office CALENVARSf,Jtom oWt pJrA.n.teJton and then raped in Market & Show in Day receipts, the 1Oth of, Vec.embe.Jt. On the ton and we picked up Cleveland's Amtrak Station at 11th we began rno.J.li.ng old: the !1:00am on three new members as a about Thanksgiving c.alenda.Ju, to ill who had ~ent Day. The was result. agent alone on .&t oJtde.M. The oJtde.M aJte ~:ti.U Use every op MASSTRANSIT duty in the station at the c.om.&tg .&t. We've had 5000 of, portunity to help make time. OARP understands that the c.alenda.Ju, pJrA.n.ted and we've OARP known and bring Amtrak personnel at Cleveland ai.Jteady Jtec.uved donatio~total in new members in your had requested increased sec .&tg about 12% of, the pJtoduc.:Uon area. We can easily urity at the station at times c.o~t.We'd tiRe to c.ove.Jt ~ ship you quantities of when just one person is on muc.h of, the pJtoduction c.o~t~ brochures and "6:53's" duty. To our knowledge this During FY 1971-n, the federal government spent $75.8 we c.an. The f,oWt-c.oloJt c.oloJt for use in your area. ~ith the worst incident be billion on transportation, nearly three-quarters of that is to ~epaJtationof, M~Re Webe.Jt'~ Just ask. Our outlay going to highway and air transportation. Only 4% was free spent on rail programs (which includes Amtrak). fall an Ohio Amtrak station. ~lideof, the CARVINAL b~ standing sign comes a SOURCE: U.S. Conference of Mayors, Federal A.id to c.JtoM.&tg the C&O :btuile at The assailant, armed with a part enough to fit in Transponation·: ~n~nalysis of Government Obligations by gun, is (to our knowledge) OReana (BuileJt County) on a a car trunk for easy Mode, May 1979. still at large. He reported Mowy w.&tte.Jt'~ day Jtu~aboLLt transport. ly was somewhat familiar with $180.00. OWt total c.o~tw~ (courtesy of NARPNEWS) routines and procedures at be aJtound $850.00. the station. The c.alendaJr. OARP WILL SUP. pJtomotu OARPand 6eatuJtu the Are you reeding RA/L 1 OWt thaniu> to KEN STEfl/ART o 6 the PORT THE PUSH FOR INCREASED entiJte 1981 yeaJt .&t ve.Jty eleM C.&tc..&tnati NRHS Cha.p,teJr., and Jte-6- SECURITY FOR AMTRAK PERSON and Jteadable type. OWt c.alendaJr. Subscribe to RAIL! RAIL is ~dentof, Loveland, OhM, who ~ug NEL AT CLEVELAND AND OTHER wo 6eatWtu, .&t a c.olumn at gu.ted ~omemhtoJt ~p!tovemen.t6to AMTRAK STATIONS IN OHIO. We a newsletter for persons the lef,thand ~~e. ~ e6ul .&t- concerned about the future oUJr.HOW-TO-FINV-THE-STATION MAP do not necessarily use the 6o~on .&tc.lud.&tg the loc.al of, Loveland ~ed .&t oWt l.tu.t of American Railroads. Read 1 word "security" as "armed ~~ue.((le Ken'~ phone numbe.M of, ail the Am:btaR what informed observers U hr.c.oJtpoiULte camp". Had a second person ~uggutio~when we Jtedu~gn ~~o~ .&t, and adjac.ent to, have to say in coming is and been on duty at Cleveland, OhM. The toU-f,Jtee numbe.M aJr.e sues about these topics: Jtep4in.t ouJt OARP RAIL TRAVEL as is usually the case, it pMm.&tentiy Wted, ~ ~ the GUIVES .&t the neaJr. 6u.twte. is doubtful this incident numbe.Jt f,OJt the OhM Leg~lative. --Coal to f,ud JtailM~:CentJtai. would have occurred; or at Se.Jtv~c.e.HOTLINE. 0Wt c.alendaJt de~Mc.atWn oJt c.oal-6~ed
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