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May 17, 2024 · The US lost a giant of passenger-train advocacy this week. Anthony Haswell, who founded the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) in 1967, died at the age of 94. NARP, now called the Rail Passengers Association, was pivotal in creating Amtrak in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2000, the publication Trains included Haswell in a ...
May 20, 2024 · Tony Haswell in Ottawa, Ill., on May 16, 1976, on a fan trip with Rock Island’s Bicentennial E8. J. David Ingles. “Tony’s tenure was clouded by the fact that he was a passenger-train diehard that put him at odds with the bankrupt Rock,” recalls King. “Whenever there was a dispute between the RTA and the Rock, Tony would take the side ...
May 19, 2024 · Anthony Haswell, a passenger train advocate and founder of the National Association of Railroad Passengers, died on May 17 at age 94. Haswell helped found NARP – now known as the Rail Passengers Association – in 1967 and served as its chairman and executive director until 1974. Between 1975 and 1977 he was director of…
May 17, 2024 · While your Association prepares to celebrate one more trip around the sun tomorrow, we have learned the sad news of the passing of our founder, Anthony Haswell, at the age of 94. Anyone who knows me in the role has heard me say the title of this piece many times, but I do absolutely stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before me.
May 17, 2024 · Anthony Haswell, longtime Arizona resident, passed away this morning. He was 94. Haswell was founder of the National Association of Railroad Passengers (1967), a former Rock Island lawyer and primary author of the Rail Passenger Service Act of 1971 which created Amtrak.
May 25, 2024 · Actually, President Richard Nixon despised the Amtrak concept. The idea behind Amtrak really came from a man named Anthony Haswell. In 1968, he founded the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP), and it was he who convinced political leaders of the era, state-by-state, that preservation of a rail passenger system was up to the U.S. government.
May 17, 2024 · Discussion of the national Amtrak system and other passenger services including VIA Rail, commuter and transit.
