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Amtrak board chief makes Toledo stop for speech at forum (Source: Toledo Blade, October 22, 2012) TOLEDO, Ohio — The chairman of Amtrak’s Board of Directors will be the featured speaker at a passenger-rail forum scheduled today at the Toledo Club. Thomas Carper, appointed to the Amtrak board in 2008 by President George W. Bush and its chairman since 2009, is scheduled to discuss “Amtrak’s Midwestern projects of significance” and its role in economic growth, according to a statement issued by the forum’s sponsor, the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments. Full story: Toledo Blade Monday, October 22, 2012 © 1997-2013 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

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