Railpax Recommended Routes – March 1971
This large PDF file is of a 273-page 3-ring binder presented to the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation by their McKinsey and Co. consultant team in March 1971 so that the…
1970 McKinsey Proposal for Railpax Organization
This is a PDF of a December 29, 1970 report from consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation on how to organize the new railroad. The…
Minutes of Meetings of Railpax Board of Incorporators
This large PDF file is the bound 190-page compilation of the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, held from December 22, 1970 to March 30, 1971.
Nov. 1970 Nixon Railpax Route Order for Volpe
This is a November 25, 1970 memo from OMB Director George Shultz to Transportation Secretary John Volpe notifying of President Nixon’s decisions related to the preliminary routes served by the soon-to-be-created National Rail Passenger Corporation…
Nov. 1970 OMB Railpax Route Options Memo for Nixon
This is a memo from OMB Director George Shultz to President Nixon, undated (but from its context, it was either delivered on November 24 or 25, 1970) regarding the preliminary route map selection for what…
Nov. 1970 Volpe Draft Railpax Route Map for President Nixon
This is a November 24, 1970 memo (with attachments) from Transportation Secretary John Volpe to President Nixon transmitting and explaining his and USDOT’s initial recommendations for the “basic service’ route map for the future Railpax…
1970 Preliminary Report on Basic National Rail Passenger System
This is a preliminary report made by Transportation Secretary John Volpe on November 30, 1970 outlining the endpoint routes that the soon-to-exist National Rail Passenger Corporation would have to serve as the “basic system” of…
1970 ICC Review of Preliminary Report on Basic National Rail Passenger System
This is a December 29, 1970 report of the Interstate Commerce Commission giving the ICC’s review of the October 1970 Preliminary Report on Basic National Rail Passenger System issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
White House “Railpax” Memos, January-March 1970
This PDF file contains a series of internal White House memos, and correspondence between the Department of Transportation and the White House, from January-March 1970 on the subject of DOT’s “Railpax” proposal that would, later…
Jeff Davis Presentation on Eisenhower and Transportation
This is a PDF of the PowerPoint presentation that Eno’s Jeff Davis gave at the Capitol Historical Society Heritage Lecture on September 14, 2020 (virtually) on President Eisenhower’s transportation policies. It covers the creation of…
Transportation Policy History – Archive of Etw Articles
Someone once asked me if all of the transportation policy history articles I have written for ETW were collected in one place. They were not, so now they are. Multi-Part Series: A Conversation With Alan Boyd, the First U.S. Secretary of Transportation Part 1 (February…
Surface Transportation Policy Partnership Archive
For over a quarter century, the Surface Transportation Policy Project (STPP) worked to ensure safer communities and smarter transportation choices that enhance the economy, improve public health, promote social equity, and protect the environment. From its earliest days impacting the landmark Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, STPP was always on the vanguard of transportation reform in the United States.
Eno is proud to host the archive of STPP’s website which contains a repository of STPP reports, information, and activities.