Railroads

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include an NRHS business card, handwritten notes, Ride the Rail meeting agendas and minutes, news clippings, correspondence, Dubuque City Expo information sheets, "A Message from the City Manager Michael C. Milligen," (two copies), Iowa Association of Railroad Passengers (IARP) meeting minutes, agendas, and financial statements, an overview of the 2010 Elections from the Environmental Law...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include a packet from a Transportation Commission Workshop titled "Fixing America's Surface Transportation- (FAST Act) Implementation Recommendations, an Iowa Rail Toolkit booklet, a "Passenger Rail in Iowa: Looking Toward the Future" pamphlet, an article printout titled "One day, we'll wonder what all the fuss about high-speed rail was about," an information packet titled "Iowa's Passenger...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include Ride the Rail meeting minutes and agendas, correspondence, a Transportation 2020 Citizen Advisory Commission (Branstad / Reynolds) Public Input Meeting Background Material packet, the March 2012 issue of Iowa Rails, a Sierra Club Iowa Chapter packet on freight and passenger rail in Iowa, Tri-State Alliance Meeting minutes, and the folders in which some materials were originally...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include news clippings, correspondence, a Sierra Club Iowa Chapter packet on freight and passenger rail in Iowa, an article printout titled "Amtrak Outlook: Running between Chicago and Dubuque by 2015," an Iowa Connections "Chicago-Iowa City passenger rail program fact sheet" (two copies), Ride the Rail meeting agendas and minutes, an article printout titled "Benefits of a Train," a report...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include a printout from the Envision Dubuque website, the October 2015 issue of The Higher Lowdown, an "Amtrak: America's Railroad" information sheet (two copies), news clippings, an article printout titled "Minnesota plans St. Paul to Eau Claire passenger rail line," correspondence, an Iowa Passenger Rail "Chicago to Iowa City Passenger Rail" fact sheet (three copies), a printed copy of...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include Ride the Rail meeting agendas, a packet titled "Passenger Rail Survey: Dubuque to Chicago and Beyond," the March 2018 issue of Passengers Voice, a passenger rail survey, an All Aboard Minnesota information sheet, the May 2018 issue of Passengers Voice, an article printout titled "Moline-Iowa City on Chopping Block," news clippings, a Ride the Rail survey, Dubuque Metropolitna Area...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque. The papers include Ride the Rail meeting agendas and minutes, news clippings, an executive summary by Amtrak Illinois of a "Feasibility Report on Proposed Amtrak Service Quad Cities-Chicago, an article printout titled "State spent $60M on trains it'll never use," a "Passenger Rail for Northern Illinois" information packet, a Ride the Rail "Ways to Help Passenger Rail Return" handout (two copies),...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring rail service back to Dubuque. The papers include an interview and newspaper clippings about rail service updates, Dubuque Metropolitan Area Transportation Study (DMATS) (FFY 2017-2020), DMATS maps and plans, a notice from the National Association of Railroad Passengers titled "White House Budget Cuts All Long Distance Rail Service," a document titled "Is Your Mayor Onboard?" (two copies), the Sept. 2018 issue of Passengers Voice, a...

Scope and Contents Contains miscellaneous papers related to the effort to bring rail service back to Dubuque. The papers include correspondence, an agreement to establish the Ride the Rail Non-Endowed Fund, an application to the McDonough Foundation Grant, Bring Back BlackHawk meeting summary, Ride the Rail Meeting Minutes, Chicago Passenger Rail Meetign agenda, Ride the Rail announcement brochure, a letter providing funds from the McDonough Foundation grant, news clippings, further project budgets for the...

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Series III consists of miscellaneous papers relating to the effort to bring back rail service to Dubuque.