MOKS Rail News & Updates

MOKSRail News & Updates

Newsletters

Spring 2005-MO service threatened - New St. Louis station
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Fall 2004-MOKSRail testifies - Kerry train visits Kansas City

Summer 2004-Amtrak presents 5-year plan

Winter 2004-Missouri service update; McMasters' retire

Fall 2003 - Amtrak funding update

Summer 2003 - Amtrak funding crisis

Spring 2003 - Amtrak funding crisis

Winter 2002 - New Mo/Kan. stations

June 2002 - Amtrak funding crisis

April/ May 2002 - Save Missouri's Amtrak service

Feb./March 2002- new LaPlata, Mo. depot

August 2001*

March 2001*

December 2000*

*It may be best to download these Word files to your computer.

News Releases/ Articles

02/04		Missouri Amtrak funding cuts will harm passengers

09/03		Daily Nebraskan report on Lincoln, Neb., rail summit meeting

12/02		Amtrak returns to Kansas City Union Station (12/02)

06/02		Money-losing passenger trains? Amtrak critics falsify Amtrak funding statistics

06/02		Bush Amtrak reform plan destroys - not improves - Amtrak and jeopardizes transportation options

05/02		A Word About Passenger Train Safety..(following the Auto Train crash)...

04/02		Kansas City Star column: Don't Let Missouri's Cross-State Passenger Train Die (April 14, 2002)

03/02		Pro-Amtrak letters published in Kansas City Star (March 7, 2002)

03/02		LaPlata, Mo. holds open house for Amtrak station


		Reports from NARP Region X meeting in Omaha, Neb., April 6, 2002
04/02		Amtrak official: long-distance trains do better than many corridor trains

04/02		Cuts to Amtrak Intercity trains hurting train travel

04/02		Express service harming Amtrak passenger train performance

04/02		Citizens will determine fate of America's passenger train system- National Association of Railroad Passengers leader's April 6 talk at Omaha, Neb., Region X meeting

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