Rail Passenger Association of California & Nevada

By Paul Dyson, RailPAC President

I have to say that after many weeks of preparation I was very gratified to see an almost full room, nearly three hundred people with all three organizations well represented. We have a lot of dual members, which is great, as we need national and regional support groups.

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By Gene Skoropowski Managing Director, CCJPA

We have just received the March 2007 results, and for the Capitol Corridor it is yet another record high in both ridership and revenue, even with our still-lackluster 73% on-time performance (but that is getting better as well, April to date is 80%). Implementation of the Union Pacific’s test plan for limiting daylight freights to the ‘crack’ priority trains should further improve this on-time performance, as described by Mr. Tom Mulligan of UPRR at our last Board Meeting.

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From Noel Braymer

In just under a month the video highlights of the Kummant Speech in Los Angeles on March 17th has 1,010 views. The highlights of Andy Selden’s presentation at the same meeting is now at 301. The posting of the first half of Dr. Herzog’s presentation in 1985 about Matrix Theory is already at 153.The Second half of Dr. Herzog’s presentation is now available and has 12 views. There is also a short video on California’s Amtrak Trains of 1985 on http://www.youtube.com/noelnoelt which in just over 2 weeks has 242 view. This video ends with a short presentation from Byron Nordberg talking about the then new Oceanside Transportation Center which Byron spearheaded.

The RailPAC Board of Directors will have a business meeting on Saturday, April 28, in Oakland.