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Show Amfrac Service For f.lilford? then held in Grand Island, with eleven Nebraska cities on the Union Pacific Railroad line, followed by favorable contacts with officials in Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. In August of last year the Western Association of Railroad Rail-road Passengers (WARP) was formed with Keith as chairman chair-man in an effort to enlist support for the project along the entire proposed routes. "This is not just a statewide state-wide effort in Iowa, " Keith said, "but an effort to pre -vide service that would connect con-nect with all the corners of our country." "It wouldn't make sense to build freeways and interstate highways in each individual state that didn't connect with freeways in the bordering states, so how can it make sense to restore rail passenger pass-enger service that only exists in one state and doesn't connect con-nect with the bordering states." "WARP is asking every citizen cit-izen along these proposed routes to fill out thequestion-aire thequestion-aire in today's paper so that it can be presented to AM-TRAK AM-TRAK as a united effort to obtain ob-tain rail passenger service that will interconnect from Chicago to the west coast and at the same time provide a mode of fuel saving transportation transpor-tation within each state," Keith said. The questionaires may be mailed to WARP, P. 0. Box 307, Carroll, Iowa 51401, or can be mailed or dropped off at this newspaper. A Carroll, Iowa businessman business-man is attempting toestablish a new AMTRAK line over the former routes served by the once popular and profitable City of Los Angeles andCity of Portland to travel from Chicago Chica-go to those two west coast cities. The project arose out of an AMTRAK trip taken by William Wil-liam D. Keith from Omaha to San Francisco in March 1973 on a train that was originally a combination of the once fam -ous Union Pacific fjeet of trains called the City of Denver Den-ver and the City of San Francisco. Fran-cisco. He was favorably Impressed but questioned the reasoning behind the change of routes the train traveled from the original orig-inal routes. With the help of the Carroll Chamber of Commerce, Keith set out to study the potential of asking AMTRAK to consider restoration of the former lines. Both trains would run through central Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. At Rock Springs, Wyoming, the City of Los Angeles would proceed to Ogden and Salt Lake City, then southwest through Nevada and Into southern California while the City of Portland would travel through Idaho and Oregon. The proposed routes would include rail passenger service ser-vice for Milford. "Using these routes would serve a much larger population popula-tion segment in all these states than is now being served," Keith points out. Support for the proposal first came from towns on the Chicago Northwestern Railway Rail-way in Iowa, many of which contributed funds to research the project. A meeting was |