About the Rail Passengers Association
With 127,000 members, donors, and supporters, the non-profit Rail Passengers Association is the oldest and largest national organization serving as a voice for the more than 40 million rail passengers in the U.S. Our mission is to improve and expand conventional intercity and regional passenger train services, support higher speed rail initiatives, increase connectivity among all forms of transportation, and ensure safety for our country's trains and passengers. All of this makes communities safer, more accessible, and more productive, improving the lives of everyone who lives, works, and plays in towns all across America.
Our Story
Founded in 1967, the Rail Passengers Association is the nation’s largest passenger rail advocacy organization, serving as a voice for the country’s more than 40 million rail passengers. Our mission is to improve and expand conventional intercity and regional passenger train services, support higher speed rail initiatives, increase connectivity among all forms of transportation, and ensure the safety of our nation’s trains and passengers.
What We Do
Advocate: Rail Passengers is the only national organization that consistently advances the cause of commuter rail, regional rail, and intercity rail, as well as Amtrak’s national network trains. Our concerted efforts have saved national routes from what once seemed to be certain demise, and have prevented many cuts to sought-after services such as meal offerings and sleeping car accommodations. We’re working to restore many routes and on-board services that have already been cut.
Collaborate: The Association’s network of grassroots supporters, annual partners, and affiliated state-level passengers’ organizations in nearly all the continental United States amplifies the voices of travelers clamoring not only for more service, but for better service.
Educate: Rail Passengers works with a wide variety of constituents, ranging from tourism bureaus to grassroots supporters, helping people across the nation find their voice and amplify it to advocate for the specific transportation services they need, as well as their direct and indirect economic and social impacts.
Inform: Rail Passengers is a trusted source for straightforward, factual information about the latest rail and transportation happenings across the country. Not only is the information of interest to our members, but it is also relied upon by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Amtrak management, lawmakers, and reporters.
Who We Are
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