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Membership Information

Please join ColoRail in promoting passenger rail service in and through Colorado by becoming a member. Annual membership is just $15.00 per year, so join today! More info here.

As a member you will receive :

  • The ColoRail Passenger newsletter published three times a year
  • Timely e-mail rail news updates and notices of special events and activities
  • Invitations to the three general membership meetings each year

Membership fees pay for costs of:

  • Promoting rail transit and intercity rail
  • Printing and mailing the newsletter and other print materials
  • Hosting the three general membership meetings

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
  • Engage 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 and raise public awareness about the advantages and benefits rail travel.

To become a member, please provide the following:

Name
Address
Phone Number(s)
E-mail
Rail Interest
Volunteer Interest

Please make your check $15.00 check payable to ColoRail and mail to:

ColoRail
1550 Larimer St., Unit 271
Denver, CO 80202

Founded in 1989, ColoRail members have helped to:

  • Defeat proposals to remove trains from Denver Union Terminal (DUT)
  • Develop DUT as an intermodal transportation facility
  • Expand Amtrak services, including initiation of Amtrak Thruway Bus connecting services
  • Promote legislation to address railroad abandonment
  • Elect officials who support rail service
  • Support multimodal transportation legislation
  • Establish rail as a viable and realistic alternative to highway construction
Please contact volunteer@colorail.org to find out more about how you can get involved in enhancing and expanding Colorado passenger rail services.

 

 

 
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