Ron Leatz, 68, the host of the Dowagiac Amtrak station, has been volunteering with the Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers for three years. He talks with Herald-Palladium Staff Writer Kate Genellie about what a station host does and the appeal of train travel.
He's a longtime railroad fan and says a big boost in ridership is largely because parents are putting their college-bound children on the trains.
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We have two trains that come through. One's called the Bluewater, one's called the Wolverine. We have two Bluewater and two Wolverine trains that stop here.
This is an unstaffed Amtrak facility. As a volunteer with (MARP) I take care of all the Amtrak literature. It's sent to my home and I bring it down. We also put up the baggage tags.
The other thing we do, since we're in the MARP, we get information from other things. We also are the only group that has Michigan information at Union Station in Chicago.
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Source: Herald-Palladium
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