Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2012

State of Wisconsin

Amtrak-Wisconsin partnership

Hiawatha Service – seven daily round trips, Milwaukee-Chicago Record Hiawatha ridership in Fiscal 2012 Almost 43,000 Wisconsin residents are members of the Amtrak Guest Rewards frequent user program

Amtrak Service & Ridership Amtrak operates one long-distance train through Wisconsin, the Empire Builder (daily Chicago- Milwaukee-St. Paul-Seattle/Portland via Columbus, Portage, Wisconsin Dells, Tomah, and La Crosse), and the Hiawatha Service, with seven daily round-trips daily on the Milwaukee-Chicago corridor.

During FY12 Amtrak served the following Wisconsin locations: City Boardings + Alightings Columbus 16,259 La Crosse 28,872 Milwaukee 632,078 Milwaukee Airport 163,772 Portage 6,747 Sturtevant 75,052 Tomah 10,775 Wisconsin Dells 13,543 Total Wisconsin Station Usage: 947,098 (up 2.5% from FY11)

Procurement/Contracts Amtrak spent $16,505,263 on goods and services in Wisconsin in FY12. Most of this was in the following locations:

City Amount Fox Point $ 1,311,486 Glendale $ 2,608,686 Milwaukee $ 9,463,251 Oak Creek $ 1,650,687

Amtrak Government Affairs: November 2012 Employment At the end of FY12, Amtrak employed 70 Wisconsin residents. Total wages of Amtrak employees living in Wisconsin were $4,817,978 during FY12.

State-Assisted Services The State of Wisconsin, in partnership with the State of Illinois, funds the operation of seven daily, round-trip Hiawatha Service trains between Milwaukee and Chicago. In FY12, Hiawatha Service ridership was 838,355, up 2.3% from 2011, which is an all-time record number of riders for the route. With seven frequencies in each direction daily, the service is the most heavily used Amtrak route in the Midwest.

Expansion Planning Second Chicago-Twin Cities Train: Amtrak has been participating in all facets of a Minnesota DOT and Wisconsin DOT-sponsored effort for a second daily frequency between Chicago and St. Paul on the current Empire Builder route. An additional frequency would provide cities along the route two trains in each direction, seven days a week. Discussion between the states, communities, Amtrak, and Canadian Pacific Railway are ongoing. Additional Hiawatha Frequencies: The addition of three Hiawatha frequencies daily in each direction between Chicago and Milwaukee is in very preliminary discussions. This would make for a total of ten daily trains in each direction.

Station Improvements

• Milwaukee: Amtrak is continuing to work with Wisconsin DOT on their efforts to rebuild the existing train shed and platforms at the Milwaukee Intermodal Station to provide a safer, healthier, more modern, ADA-compliant experience.

• Milwaukee Airport Railroad Station: Wisconsin DOT combined state and federal dollars to double the platform length from 400 feet to 800 feet at the station serving Milwaukee Airport. Work was completed in October 2012.

• Tomah: After receiving a new roof and paint by labor forces of owner Canadian Pacific Railway in 2011, the historic Tomah station in 2012 was complemented with a new, fully ADA-compliant parking lot. This replaced a non-compliant dirt and gravel lot.

Amtrak Government Affairs: November 2012 AMTRAK ROUTES IN WISCONSIN

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--Amtrak Government Affairs, summer 2011