Freight and Passenger Railways in the United States are classified according to revenue rather than physical extent. The largest carriers are known as Class I Railroads, which cover a significant portion of the country as long haul railroads.

Classes II and III, are known as short lines; which operate over extensive regional networks.

The United States has over 6,000 Rail Line Communities being served by 500 North American Short Line-Regional Freight-Passenger Railroads,12 Class I Long Haul Railroads, which include various passenger rail services in rail line communities. These small and large railway businesses have play a vital role within the overall United State Railway Network. Providing connecting railway services thoughtout the North American Continent, which includes Canada, Mexico, Cenral and South America. The short line-regional and long haul railroads have an extensive history in development of rail line communities focusing on communitiy business innovativative services. Short Line Railways have played a pivotal role in saving rail line community industries and business economy, including prventing rail lines community track and service abandonment, where Class I railroads have failed.

Short lines and regional railways represent the "rail line community growth" of the community industry, business, travel opportunities and tourism development. Small community based Short Line Railroads have revitalized the future of rail line communities since the 1980 Staggers Rail Act. Short Line Railroads represent 29 percent of the rail traffic miles and 50,000 miles of track owned, maintained and operated by Class II and III rail line community enterprises.

The Staggers Rail Act Deregulation of Class I Railways transform the rail industry, which allowed Railway Entrepreneurs to acquire low traffic rail community lines and established business plans that encouraged better quality control, improved customers services, innovative marketing flexiblity and most of all "client friendly service". The advantage of rail community based services provided lower operating costs and Cascey Jones "can do attitude" toward being part of rail line commuity economic growth.

Railway Entrepreneurs made a transitional differnce to rail line community industries by providing employement opportunities, preventing rail line abandonment, and being viable to participate in rail line community small businesses development. The importance of Short Lines, has preserved rail line community rail services and in some cases the Rail Line Community railway entrepreneur seeing oppotunity to increase rail traffic by re-engineering the definition "railway services" that predominantly includes passenger services in urban to rural areas. Rail traffic kept on the rails benefits the entire rail line community to prosper, which improves the performace of industry to be able to relocate to rural or urban rail line communities and have affordable access to new markets.

The railway community industry has transformed our mind set to utilize a transportation system that changed the world economy on it birth and continues restructure its technology application from steam, electromotive, electro desiel power to Environmental Green Technology of the "Hyrodgen-Locomotive Power". Rail Line Community Short Line Railway Network are benifical freight or passenger feeder systems to higher volume trunk line traffic cores, which has become a model of restructuring rail efficiency for rail line community railways.

Railway Entrepreneurs are able to market small rail line community railways to become profitably entity that can utilize modern and historical railway equipment, adapted to specialized services, but most of all be: "Community-Oriented" and Competitive In World Market.

All railways have a stake in rail line communities, from large cities to suburban community to rural America, railway's provides local employment, business opportunities required to operate a railway and railway's increase industry opportunity to relocate along the rail line that satisfy the precise transportation requirements of shippers.

National Train Day is a celebration our nation's railway systems and our rail line communities that to focuses on past and present, including:

Passenger or Frieght Services National Train Day is a Celebration of the Railway Technology and the American Citizens who participate in the development and continuing efforts to moving freight and passenger that originates or terminates on Class I, II, II Railroads and small rail line community railroads bulit our American Cities and Town..

THE CELEBRATION BEINGS ON THE RAILWAYS

RAIL LINE COMMUNITY RAILROAD
THE ROLE IN AMERICA

National Train Day Celebrates thousands of shippers who use the American Railways, in thousands of towns across the nation, from small and large American Railways each day to making the connection to markets all over the globe.

National Train Day Celebrates millions of citizens who use the American Railway each day in thousands of towns across the nation, from small and large railways that provide the initial morning transportation to work.

National Train Day Celebrates hundreds of thousands of citizens who use the American Railway each day in thousands of towns across the nation, from small and large railways that provide the initial vaction transportation to rail line communities accross our nation.

The America Railway can be viewed as an "opportunity" to dicover rail line communities. The American Passenger Railway meet you at station and take you to your destination in relaxing comfort, weather having morning coofee before work or enjoying a dinning before retiring to your room.

The American Railway stops by where you work, picking up your industry's commodities like, process food, new automobles,express packages from fedex, ups, roadway; including rae materials from local farms, mines and forest pruducts. Often start the rail journeys from your rail line community, on a small community railway where the Railway Entrepreneurs and employees are on first name basis with everyone in town.

The American Railway are also involved in restoring and preservation of historical railways and equipment, providing steeam train excurison accoss america, commuter rail services, light rail travel to work, strretcar to have lunch and national access to over 500 American Rail Line communities.

The American Railway also provide intermodal frieght service and transfer facilities in many areas, including diversified warehousing, storage and other value-added services in order to meet shipper requirements.

National Train Day plays an important role in the rail line community acknowledgement of our American Heritage of Railway Industry and Services, throughtout our Nation, opportunities provided to our citizens.

National Train Day provide education, transfer of information, public understanding of roles the railways played thoughtout American History of our country and provide railway exhibits that most American citizens would near see in a life time.

The American Railway can help bypass transportation congested areas to keep passenger and freight moving. In America over 50,000 miles of railway lines are underutilized asset or are closed/abandon waiting for reconstruction to lost rail line communities, can offers opportunities for future growth in America.

Sincerely,

Louis Alloin.
National Train Day Association,
Pro-Tem Chairman Date: 2-15-2011

Washington, D.C. Nevada Senator Harry Reid today made the following statement in celebration of National Train Day Saturday, May 8, 2010.

“During the 19th century, trains became the major mode of transportation that made America's development possible. The use of trains played an integral role in the boom of Nevada’s mining and tourism industries. Today, railways remain an important part of our economy and will contribute to our future success. Evidence of that impact will be seen later this year, when the DesertXpress high-speed rail project will break ground and connect Las Vegas with California's high-speed rail system. The construction and maintenance of this project will help put more Nevadans back to work, strengthen our economy and speed our economy into the future.”

The 2nd annual National Train Day marks the 140th anniversary of the completion of America’s first transcontinental railroad and celebrates the importance of trains as an efficient, affordable, environmentally friendly means of transportation. The events are held nationwide in some of America’s major cities and feature model train displays, museum exhibits and educational programs for visitors.

National Train Day 2010 will be celebrated with events in Reno. Please visit: National Train Dayfor details.

WASHINGTON, DC Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced a bipartisan resolution to celebrate Amtrak’s first annual National Train Day. The resolution, joined by 20 co-sponsors, raises awareness about the critical and growing role that passenger rail plays in serving America’s daily travel needs.

“With skyrocketing gas prices and long lines at the airports, record numbers of passengers are choosing to travel by train,” Sen. Lautenberg said. “Train travel is not just easy and convenient, it’s energy-efficient, protects our environment and reduces our reliance on foreign oil. I hope Americans from across the country celebrate National Train Day and learn more about the benefits of passenger rail.”

For fiscal year 2007, a record 25.8 million passengers rode Amtrak, an increase of 1.5 million passengers over fiscal year 2006. With the increased congestion in the nation’s airports and on its highways, passenger rail is a vital alternative for intercity travel throughout the country. Amtrak trains are also more 17 percent more energy-efficient than airlines and 21 percent more than cars and truck, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, which helps preserve our environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“The vital role rail plays in our nation’s transportation system is becoming increasingly more evident with ridership at record levels,” said Amtrak President & CEO Alex Kummant. “From our nation’s smallest towns to its largest cities, more and more Americans are choosing to travel by train.”

Amtrak designed National Train Day to inform more Americans about the vital role of passenger rail in our nation’s transportation system. Six weeks of events, promotions and advertising are culminating on Saturday, May 10, 2008 at the railroad’s largest stations—Washington, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles—along with events in more than eighty communities.

Last October, the Senate overwhelmingly passed an $11.4 billion bill introduced by Sen. Lautenberg and former Senator Trent Lott to fully fund Amtrak and modernize and expand the U.S. passenger rail system. The bipartisan Lautenberg-Lott plan would authorize infrastructure improvements and the expansion of rail routes into new American towns and cities over the next six years. The bill is now being considered by the House of Representatives.

WHEREAS, On May 10, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, the “goldenspike" was driven into the final tie that joined 1,776 miles of the CentralPacific and Union Pacific railways, ceremonially creating the nation’s first transcontinental railroad and America was then transformed;

WHEREAS, Suddenly, the country was united in a way it never had beenand train travel sparked imaginations in small towns and cities, amongfolks who desired adventure and businessmen who saw fortunes to be made.It heralded the arrival of mail, supplies and change;

WHEREAS, The train station became a focal point of every community,from New York City's Pennsylvania Station to the tiny stations that dottedrural America;

WHEREAS, The train became more than the go»to mode of transportationfor people and goods. It was a proud achievement of engineering vision,technical ingenuity' and sweat; railways provided. jobs for thousands ofAmericans;

WHEREAS, Now, 139 years after the golden spike connected east andwest, there's never been a better time to take the train. At a time whenwe all share the same pressing concerns about ecology and energyconservation, trains are a more energy~efficient mode of travel thanvehicles or airplanes;

WHEREAS, Riding the rails is a great way to meet interesting peopleand see breathtaking scenery; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, The Rensselaer County Legislature does hereby recognize May 8, 2010 as the third annual National Train Day.Resolution

States for Passenger Rail Coalition Chairman and Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Frank Busalacchi today applauded the 3rd annual celebration of National Train Day on May 8, 2010.

“Passenger trains are widely regarded as an efficient way to move people in all parts of America. Trains are energy-efficient, pollute less than other transportation modes, and help ease highway and airline congestion.” .“National Train Day is an important opportunity to mark the valuable role trains play in our national transportation system,” Busalacchi said. “Passenger trains are widely regarded as an efficient way to move people in all parts of America. Trains are energy-efficient, pollute less than other transportation modes, and help ease highway and airline congestion.”

Busalacchi noted the demand for passenger rail is growing with people boarding trains in record numbers. Amtrak recently announced it is on pace to break its annual ridership record carrying over 13.6 million passengers during the first six months of fiscal year 2010 with the busy summer travel season still ahead.

“While we celebrate National Train Day, we must also remember that the future of passenger rail service in America depends on stable and strong funding from Washington,” Busalacchi said. “President Obama and Congressional leaders have made great progress in stepping up the federal commitment to passenger rail. The challenge now is to make sure that commitment continues into the future.”

Busalacchi said the members of the States of Passenger Rail Coalition, representing transportation agencies in 31 states, will continue their bi-partisan effort to support intercity passenger rail initiatives and work to achieve sustained and dedicated funding for projects.

National Train Day commemorates the day the “golden spike” was driven into the final railroad tie that joined 1,776 miles of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railways, creating the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. That spike was driven in 1869 in Promontory Summit, Utah.