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November 2014 All Aboard Indiana ALL INDIANA ABOARD The Official Newsletter of the Indiana Passenger Rail Alliance Volume 1, Number 11 November 2014 Hammond Best Choice for New Stop IN THIS ISSUE: (MI DOT Gary Hearing News) Page Two The Indiana Passenger Rail Alliance (IPRA) told attendees at the Michigan DOT hearing Amtrak Whistlestop Tour on the plans to upgrade tracks from Porter to Chicago that Hammond/Whiting is the Highlights most logical choice for the new Northwest Indiana stop. However, Dennis Hodges of IPRA also noted that the Gary Airport has always been envisioned as a transit hub as well. IPRA will be filing comments on the proposal; comments are due December 19. Page Three In a story on October 30 in the Post Tribune: Amtrak Beech Grove is Hiring “Officials discussed four routes that would require capital investments ranging from Take Amtrak for $2.3 billion to $3 billion and annual maintenance of about $155 million. Two of the Thanksgiving and Save routes might have an impact on the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and all would Union Station Cell Phone require construction of bridges and other structures to avoid freight traffic in North- Incident west Indiana. Amtrak Cardinal Featured in Song All but one of the possible routes would stop at the Hammond/Whiting and Michigan News, Briefly Stated City stations, but project officials said there is talk about building an additional station in Northwest Indiana.” Page Four For more information on the proposal, go to www.greatlakesrail.org on MI DOT’s website. Save 50% on Canadian Rail Commentary: Balanced Transportation Plan Link IndyGo with Regional Bus/Amtrak Needed Transportation Center (Oct. 30 IndyGo Transit Center Workshop News) Page Five Upcoming IPRA told IndyGo representatives, including CEO Michael Terry, that the new IndyGo Our Readers Enjoy Transit Hub should offer feeder service or connecting bus routes to the Amtrak trans- Discounts portation center for seamless connections on both ends. In December’s Issue For More Information Our group said the choice of IndyGo’s transit center is a second best option. Grand Rapids, Denver, St. Paul, Bloomington-Normal, Champaign-Urbana, Milwaukee, and St. Louis all have opened or refurbished their stations into inter-modal hubs where pas- sengers can take inter-regional bus, Amtrak, city bus, and light rail from one station. At a minimum, there should be better signage at the Amtrak Greyhound Station on 350 S. Illinois to the new IndyGo transit hub on Washington Street. (continued) Join us on Facebook: Hoosiers for Passenger Rail Visit us on the web: www.indianahighspeedrail.org PAGE 2: ALL ABOARD INDIANA NOVEMBER 2014 (“IndyGo” continued from page 1) Terry noted Grey- continue to hound had approached IndyGo about moving its sta- operate the tion to the new IndyGo facility. Greyhound feels the Hoosier current facility is too congested, he said. Barons Bus, State. He Trailways Bus (the Amtrak Thruway connection), and noted that Miller Bus also use the beleaguered facility (see photos Corriidor and next story). The current Union Station needs $4 Capital did million in repairs according to a recent consultant re- not talk to port, and the contract has not yet been issued. Amtrak be- fore sub- Currently the #16 route serves the Amtrak / Greyhound mitting its station and it operates once an hour and only on proposal to weekdays. However, IndyGo noted the Amtrak depar- INDOT. ture and arrival times are outside the times when IndyGo operates anyway. Boardman told a Re- nesselear An Amtrak representative aboard the Octo- audience ber 1 whistlestop train explains the complex Free Wi-Fi, Snacks, Business that they ownership of the train tracks traveled by the Class Added to Hoosier State need more Hoosier State. than four (Oct. 1 Amtrak Whistlestop months to negotiate with CC. He said CC hasn’t talked to Amtrak at all. Tour Highlights) At a stop in Lafayette, State Representative Randy Amtrak CEO Joe Boardman hosted a whistle stop tour Truitt told a Lafayette audience that continuing the on a special Hoosier State train on October 1. In press Hosier State was not a subsidy but an investment. conferences from Indianapolis to Dyer, Boardman an- nounced the addition of free WiFi and free snacks on On the special October 1 train, Amtrak explained the the Hoosier State as well as the addition of a business complex Hoosier State route includes the following class coach. He also said the proposed transfer to Cor- routing railroads: ridor Capital was not analogous to arrangements in North Carolina where a similar out sourcing is in place CSX since the Hoosier State operates in two states making CN it subject to interstate Federal regulations (EPA, FRA, Belt Line Railroad FDA, etc.). Norfolk Southern Union Pacific Boardman called for another extension from the Metra planned January 31 date in order to allow Amtrak to Amtrak tracks Each railroad has a different dispatch center. For exam- ple, Union Pacific dispatches trains from Omaha. A tour of the Amtrak dispatch center at Chicago fol- lowed on the October 1 event. Amtrak dispatches over 583 trains per day (including Metra). This includes the Michigan trains and Amtrak rail in New Orleans. The state of the art computerized control center was refur- Amtrak’s October 1 train stops in Dyer,. (Photo courtesy of bished recently with ARRA funds. If it was an airport, it Jim Burd.) would be the 11th busiest airport in North America. PAGE 3: ALL ABOARD INDIANA NOVEMBER 2014 Amtrak Beech Grove Is Hiring Amtrak’s Beech Grove maintenance facility (which em- ploys 500 people) has the following openings: -Welder -Journeyman -Mechanic Apply for these and other positions at www.amtrak.com. Take Amtrak to Your Thanksgiving Someone’s lost cell phone became every traveler’s head- Destination and Save ache in a recent Union Station incident. A look at fares to various destinations shows rail travel is a bargain compared with air travel and even travel on them to flood (see picture). Travelers were told to use MegaBus or Greyhound. On October 29, I found the the restroom in the White Castle across the street. Per following deals: John Bartholomew of the City, “In regards to Union Station, repair work is the reason On November 18, travel from Indy to Springfield, IL. one lane of Illinois Street is closed. We have no time- Leave at 11 a.m. on the Amtrak Thruways Bus for just line on when work will be completed given we have $45 and connect in Illinois. Also on November 19, Indy yet to let bids out for the $4 Million of work to be to St. Louis is just $51. Leave at 11 a.m. on the Thru- done. ways bus and connect in Illinois. In regards to the restrooms the Greyhound folks tell us that the sewage had backed up in both restrooms For travel on November 19: late at night so they were closed off until a contactor *Indy to D.C. on the Cardinal is just $83 could get on site. When they did, they found a cell *Indy to Chicago is just $24. phone stuck had clogged the pipes that caused the *Lafayette to Milwaukee is just $46. back up.” *Indy to Kansas City is just $90. Greyhound manages the station for the City of Indianapolis. Book three days in advance with your AAA or NARP card and save 10%. Cardinal Featured in Song by For more travel ideas, go to www.amtrak.com. For rail, The Tillers hotel, and city stories, read Arrive Magazine (see www.arrivemagazine.com). Arrive is Amtrak’s business By Steve Coxhead, IPRA President magazine for Northeast travelers. A local Cincinnati band called The Tillers has written a song about the Cardinal, one of the two trains cur- Union Station Cell Phone rently serving the Chicago to Indianapolis corri- dor. You can enjoy it online at Incident Causes Woes for Rail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCCg1zBKe5k and Bus Travelers News, Briefly Stated The Amtrak/Greyhound station (aka Union Station or the bus/rail transportation center) continues to make Our own Dennis Hodges was profiled in a story on life challenging for travelers. One lane of Illinois Street the plan to upgrade the tracks to Chicago from is closed due to structural repair needs. Worse, on Oc- Porter (and the October 30 MI DOT hearing tober 22, a cell phone clogged the bathrooms causing held in Gary) in the Sun Times Media Group Post Tribune. (continued) PAGE 4: ALL ABOARD INDIANA NOVEMBER 2014 (“News, Briefly Stated” continued from page 3) ance of public investment in all modes of transporta- Our thoughts are with the passengers injured on tion – air, water, and land-based highways and rail. “It’s October 28 when a semi attempted to cross time to take the word subsidized out of our vocabulary tracks near Reynolds even though it saw the when referring only to public dollars allocated to pas- Hoosier State coming. The semi was cut in half senger rail,” continues the Peru resident. and the driver was not injured. Several passen- gers were taken to a nearby hospital, according Rail opponents like to point out that only a few million to media reports. ride trains compared with the tens of millions who travel by air or automobile. Literally thousands of mil- lions of dollars have flowed into highway projects, and Save 50% on Rail Travel in Canada hundreds of billions more into airport and airways pro- jects, while only about $40 billion have been allocated Enjoy 50% savings on VIA Rail in Canada. Our nearest to Amtrak in over 40 YEARS of its existence! “Just how station is Windsor, Ontario (across the river from De- many people can ride on the few trains over the barely troit via the Barons or Greyhound Bus).
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