Membership

Anyone who is interested in promoting passenger rail service in and through Colorado is invited to join ColoRail. Please send a check payable to "ColoRail" for $10 (yearly dues) to:

ColoRail
P.O. Box 480452
Denver, CO 80248

Your membership dues pays for:

• The ColoRail Passenger (newsletter) published in January, April, and September.
• Rail news updates via e-mail reports
• Leaflets, brochures
• Promotion of rail transit and intercity rail
• Three general membership meetings per year

As advocates for passenger rail, our members:

• Follow federal, state, and local legislative rail initiatives
• Contact elected officials to support rail service
• Work with the Colorado Department of Transportation, Regional Transportation District, and other agencies to expand passenger rail services
• Participate in advisory groups and public forms on rail issues
• Contact the media to promote rail projects
• Work with Amtrak to promote rail and rail related activities
• Coordinate rail advocacy activities with the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) as well as with rail associations in neighboring states
• Coordinate passenger rail activities with other consumer, environmental, and pro-transit organizations
• Educate the public on the benefits and advantages of travel by rail.

Since its foundation in 1989, ColoRail has helped to:

• Defeat proposals to remove trains from Denver Union Terminal (DUT)
• Develop DUT as an intermodal transportation facility
• Expand Amtrak services
• Promote legislation to deal with railroad abandonment
• Initiate Amtrak Thruway Bus connecting services
• Elect officials who support rail service
• Support multimodal transportation legislation
• Establish rail as a viable and realistic alternative to highway construction