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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!

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 general membership meetings
  • Maintaining our website

As advocates for passenger rail and transit, our members:

  • Follow federal, state, and local legislative rail and transit initiatives
  • Contact elected officials to support rail and transit service
  • Work with the Colorado Department of Transportation, Regional Transportation District, and other agencies to expand passenger rail and transit services
  • Participate in advisory groups and public forms on rail and transit issues
  • Engage the media to promote rail and transit projects
  • Work with Amtrak to promote rail and rail/transit related activities
  • Coordinate rail and transit advocacy activities with the National Association of Railroad Passengers (NARP) as well as with rail and transit associations in neighboring states
  • Coordinate passenger rail and transit 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 Station (DUS)
  • Develop DUS as an intermodal transportation facility
  • Expand Amtrak services, including initiation of Amtrak Thruway Bus connecting services
  • Promote legislation to address railroad abandonment
  • Support public financing for passenger rail and transit including RTD FasTracks
  • Support multimodal transportation legislation
  • Establish rail and other transit modes 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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