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Preparing Virginia’s cities for more passenger trains
Saturday, March 29
Richmond Railroad Museum
102 Hull Street
11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This meeting is open to the general public. There is no charge to attend. Box lunch purchases are optional. Presentation topics: Station planning, urban rail transit Jonathan Michel, Rail Plan, Inc.—Virginia Tech Multidisciplinary Studio student designs for a new Roanoke train station Kevin Page, DRPT—Station planning for Richmond Ray Amoruso, Hampton Roads Transit—The Tide update, extension planning Ralph Messera, Metro. Transit Com. (Charlotte)—CATS Blue Line extension, NC Rail Division update Harry Kollatz and Patrick Gregory—The making of their documentary film on Richmond streetcars, Richmond Had Rails.
The annual business meeting and a board meeting will follow the last presentation. To vote, you must be a paid-up member. To run for the board of directors, send a candidacy statement to VARP chairman Steve Dunham, 8600 South Fork Ct., Fredericksburg, VA 22407; SGDunham@Verizon.net. On Saturday, we will have lunches catered by Apple Spice Junction for $10 each. Accompanied by a selection of beverages, pickle, potato chips and cookie. To sign up for the lunch, mail your menu choice with your check or money order for $10 per meal, payable to VARP, to Please sign up for the meeting and have your payment to us by Printable meeting brochure with form for lunch. The meeting is scheduled to permit travel by Amtrak trains 67 and 194 in the morning and trains 66 and 99 in the evening. Call Someone from VARP or the Old Dominion Chapter will meet Amtrak passengers at Richmond’s Main Street Station and return them there after the meeting. From I-95 in all directions: The museum is the former Southern Railway Station, now owned and restored by the Old Dominion Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. It is about three-quarters of a mile from Main Street Station, at the south end of the Lunch
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Richmond Railroad Museum