STRATION'S REQUEST FOR
ONAL FUNDING FOR AMTRAK

HEARING

BEFORE THE

TTEE ON SURFACE TRANSPORTATION

OF THE

MMITTEE ON COMMERCE

NITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

MINISTRATION'S REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL
FUNDING FOR AMTRAK

OCTOBER 26, 1971

Serial No. 92-29

ed for the use of the Committee on Commerce

S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1971

CONTENTS

Page

1

Opening statement by the chairman----.

LIST OF WITNESSES

Beggs, Hon. James M., Under Secretary of Transportation, Department of

Transportation; accompanied by John Ingram, Federal Railroad Ad-

ministrator; and John Olsson, Deputy Under Secretary-

Haswell, Anthony, chairman, National Association of Railroad Pas-

sengers

Prepared statement--

Lewis, Roger, president, Amtrak, Washington, D.C.; accompanied by Syd-

ney Stearns, comptroller; and David Watts, vice president, planning__

Letters of:

November 12, 1971-

November 17, 1971--

Questions of Senator Hartke and the answers thereto..

November 23, 1971-

5

83

88

35

106

106

107, 859

108

864

Pell, Hon. Claiborne, letter of November 16, 1971.

Webb, Charles A., National Association of Motor Bus Owners, Washing-

ton, D.C.; accompanied by Ted Hastings, executive vice president, Grey-

hound; and Marvin Walsh, president, Safeway Trails-Continental

Trailways

Weicker, Hon. Lowell P., U.S. Senator from Connecticut____.

ADDITIONAL ARTICLES, LETTERS, AND STATEMENTS

Amtrak State of Rail Passenger Service-Effectiveness of the Act-re-

port to the President and the Congress by the Interstate Commerce

Commission

533

Amtrak Trains-Punctual and Cleaner, article from the New York Times__

Arthur Andersen & Co., National Railroad Passenger Corporation finan-

cial statement----

16

851

Blair, Kenneth I., letter of October 22, 1971---

34

Fulbright, Hon. J. W., U.S. Senator from Arkansas, letter of November 1,

1971

105

Hansen, Hon. Julia Butler, U.S. Representative from Washington, letters

of:

Hartke, Hon. Vance, U.S. Senator from Indiana, letters of:

October 1, 1971--

59

October 20, 1971-.

81

Hofgren, Daniel W., chairman, Financial Advisory Panel, National Rail-
road Passenger Corporation, letter of October 23, 1971---

Morgan, Gerald D., vice president, Government Affairs, National Railroad

Passenger Corp., letters of:

National Railroad Passenger Corporation, annual report_
Ribicoff, Hon. Abe, U.S. Senator from Connecticut, statement--.

Status of Intercity Railroad Passenger Service, report to the President
and the Congress by the Department of Transportation----

Trains, Anyone?: They're a Lot Cleaner Now-and Redder Too, article
from the National Observer__.

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