Texas Rail Advocates

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who attended. It was quite a success.

You can see a Fox 4 News interview about the conference on their web page. This video is also available on Google Video.

Most of the videos of the presenters are up on Google video. You can access them by clicking on the "Video" link under each Presenter below.

Here is a list of attendees in Acrobat PDF file format. It is password protected. If you are a member or participant, you may email Taylor TexasRailAdvocates.org for the password.

2007 Theme: High Performance Rail; Solving the Congestion Challenge!

Agenda

Here is the original Agenda (there were a couple of last minute changes not reflected in this document). You can view it in PNG (best for viewing in a browser) or PDF (best for printing).

Presenters

Peter LeCody
- President
- Texas Rail Advocates
- Biography
- Welcome to the conference and introduction of the Board Members.
  - No Presentation Materials
  - Video
Mike Sims
- Senior Program Manager
- North Central Texas Council of Governments
- No Biography
- Presentation on NCTCOG and rail.
  - No Presentation Materials
  - Video
John Horsley
- Executive Director
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- Biography
- Presentation on AASHTO and the reasons why the highway officials are now promoting rail.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
Michael Behrens
- Executive Director
- Texas Department of Transportation
- Biography
- Presentation on the role of TXDOT with rail.
  - No Presentation Files
  - Video
Jennifer Moczygemba
- Multimodal Section
- Texas Department of Transportation
- No Biography
- Presentation on the Multi-modal section of TXDOT and status of rail development in Texas.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
Joe Adams
- Chairman’s Special Representative
- Union Pacific Railroad
- Biography
- Presentation on an Update of UP activities.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
Emmett H. Fremaux
- Vice President
- Marketing & Product Management
- Amtrak
- Biography
- Presentation on Amtrak services nationwide.
  - No presentation files
  - Video Part 1
  - Video Part 2
Pete Rickershauser
- Vice President
- Network Development
- BNSF Railway
- No Biography
- Presentation on Public Private Partnerships at UP.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - No Video
- Pete was a last minute substitute for Mark Rosner.
Richard Schiefelbein
- Rail Consultant
- Port of Houston Authority
- Biography
- Presentatio on why rail is important to Ports.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - No Video
- Dick was a last minute substitute for Jim Edmonds.
Gilbert Carmichael
- Senior Chairman
- Intermodal Transportation Institute
- University of Denver
- Biography
- Presentation: Gil was the luncheon speaker and he spoke on Interstate II.
  - No presentation files
  - Video
George Elking
- Board Member
- Southwest Rail Shippers Association
- Biography
- Presentation on how the goals of the shippers and rail industry are the same.
  - No presentation files
  - Video (coming soon)
Russ McGurk
- Public Affairs Director
- Go21 (Growth Options for the 21st Century)
- Biography
- Presentation
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
Gene Skoropowski
- Managing Director
- California Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority
- Biography
- Presentation on corridor development in California.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
Joseph Schweiterman
- Executive Director
- Chaddick Institute of Metropolitan Development
- DePaul University
- Biography
- Presentation on Rail history in towns where rail has gone away.
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
Michael Morris
- Director of Transportation
- North Central Texas Council of Governments
- No Biography
- Presentation: Announcing a plan to move forward with the Corridor proposal.
  - No Presentation Materials
  - Video
  - See the Channel 4 news video that includes an interview with Mr. Morris.
Bill Bingham
- General Counsel
- Austin-San Antonio Corridor Council
- No Biography
- Presentation on the Austin-San Antonio Corridor
  - Presentation Web Page
  - Video
- Bill was a last minute substitution for Ross Milloy.

Biographies of the above speakers are available at our Conferece Biographies web page.

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