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While the highway lobby has well-funded lobbists, we are grassroots and operate frugally.  We depend on your gifts, both financial and otherwise.  The following are donations that could help (and will be considered tax deductable).  Your own special expertise or item may be useful too; please inquire.

Couches, for me to sleep on - in Montpelier and Burlington
Food, for events
Rides to meetings in Vermont
Frequent Flyer miles for occassional meetings and National Association of Railroad Passenger events
Color Printing
Web Hosting
The Non-Profit version of Quick Books
Photographs and artwork (for the web site and for fundraising sale as prints)
Trips, experiences and other items for fundraising auctions

 
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New Amtrak Service?

The following Amtrak improvements in Vermont are under discussion but take money and your political support.  Please sign up at left for e-mail updates, write to your representatives and a letter to the editor and consider volunteering to help make these enhancements reality.

Burlington - Middlebury to New York
Vermonter to Montreal
Multiple frequencies from Rutland, Bennington to New York
"Knowlege Corridor:" faster, more frequent service to New York from White River Jc, Bellows Falls & Brattleboro
Boston - Burlington - Montreal high speed rail

Local Groups

 

Essex Junction: Railroad Works (Railroad Ave Revitalization Project). Contact Penny Pillsbury 802-878-6955 or brownell_library@yahoo.com.  See "Downtown Essex Junction" on Facebook.

Rutland: Friends of Rutland Rail. contact Herb Font-Russell (802) 855-8437  herirovt@comcast.net.  See Rutland Herald Coverage of Friends of Rutland Rail

Bennington: Southwestern Vermont Rail Corridor Steering Committee.  contact Wendy Rae Woods: (802) 367-1155.  Aim is to restore trains from New York to Bennington and Manchester.

Randolph: Now forming.  Call Lee Khan: (802) 279-3627 or lee_khan@msn.com

White River Junction:  Now forming.  Call Christopher Parker: (802) 579-3394 or e-mail christopher @RailVermont.org

Bellows Falls: Will be formed soon. Call Christopher Parker: (802) 579-3394 or e-mail christopher @RailVermont.org

Brattleboro: Will be formed soon. Call Christopher Parker: (802) 579-3394 or e-mail christopher @RailVermont.org

 

Environmental Benefits of Rail

 

44% of greenhouse gasses in Vermont are produced by transportation (nationally, it's 28%).  If we are serious about the environment we have to change transportation.

Shipping by rail instead of truck reduces pollution (on average) by two-thirds, noise by one half, uses only 29% of the fuel and produces only 23% as much greenhouse gasses.  Freight Rail Carbon Calculator

The U.S. transportation system is 96% petroleum dependent, accounts for 71% of the country’s oil use, and consumes 25% of the world’s net output. 

Passenger trains are 20-40% more efficient.  But consider: if the train is already going there, the carbon footprint of you  riding it is *zero* !  

Rail facilitates better land use, which may make the biggest difference.