Why America Needs Trains

I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays. I recently ran across an article in the Huffington Post discussing why we need train travel in America. Regardless of your politics, I think we can all agree that access to train travel and a network that knits urban and rural communities together is a wonderful thing. Here is a short excerpt with a link to the entire article.

“One of the Capitol Hill newspapers estimated that I’ve taken more than 7,000 round trips on Amtrak over the course of my career. But the one I made on Jan. 17, 2009 was a bit different. When I got there, there were 8,000 people standing in the freezing cold. And I wasn’t racing to reach the 7:46 a.m. Metroliner (later, the Acela) that I had taken thousands of times before.

I was meeting up with the train that would carry President Obama and me to our inauguration.

That day, Gregg Weaver, a conductor who started riding Amtrak the same year I did–1972–introduced me to the crowd. As Gregg spoke, it struck me that over the years, Amtrak provided me with more than a way to get to Washington to serve the people of Delaware every morning and a way to get home to my family each night. It has provided me”… Read the entire article.

I will be posting a few more Sandpoint Depot letters of support soon, I will also be uploading PDF files of the original architectural drawing of the station. I had a computer go down over the holidays and have been occupied with getting things back in order, that is why updates to the Depot site have been sidelined for the last couple weeks. Thanks to everyone for their continued support of our historic Depot, talk to you soon.