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Article: Amtrak: Let Maine serve as model ; The state helps fund the Downeaster, and Alex Kummant wants similar subsidies in other areas.
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- Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)
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- April 11, 2007
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EDWARD D. MURPHY Staff Writer
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
04-11-2007
Amtrak: Let Maine serve as model ; The state helps fund the Downeaster, and Alex Kummant wants similar subsidies in other areas.
Byline: EDWARD D. MURPHY Staff Writer
Edition: FINAL
Section: BUSINESS
Maine's Downeaster rail service offers a model that Amtrak hopes will be followed by other states, the head of the passenger rail service said Tuesday.
Alex Kummant, Amtrak's president and chief executive officer, said Maine's subsidy for rail service is critical to continuing passenger train service from Portland to Boston. Some other states also provide money to help cover the cost of train service, he said, and Amtrak wants ...