General Meeting and Silent Auction

Saturday, May 18 at noon
Setup begins at 11:00 am
River's Edge Restaurant
4611 Tumwater Valley Drive
Tumwater, Washington 98512.
This event will not be available on Zoom

"All Aboard Washington and Forty Years of Passenger Rail Expansion"
A Presentation from Jeff Schultz, Senior Transit and Rail Planner, David Evans and Associates, and a Longtime AAWA member

Jeffrey T. Schultz, PMP is a Senior Transit and Rail Planner with David Evans and Associates. He has an extensive background in rail freight and passenger operations, train scheduling and simulation modeling, rail and public transportation policy, project management, grant development, management, and administration. He currently assisting with the development of the Oregon Cascades Service Development Plan-implementation plan for ODOT as well as the update for the Oregon State Rail Plan. Recently he led DEA’s team that has won approximately $25M in Federal Grant funding for several clients in Washington State. His experience also includes managing the development of the WA State Grade Crossing Action Plan and the WA State Inventory of Rail Safety Oversight for the UTC.

Prior to joining DEA, Jeff led the service planning team on the successful New Haven-Hartford-Springfield rail project and was one of the key Washington State DOT staff that developed the innovative Amtrak Cascades rail service.  He’s authored numerous rail articles published in Passenger Train Journal and Trains magazines and has ridden trains on 5 continents.  He also serves as chair of TRB Committee AR030 Railroad Operating Technologies, is a member of AREMA Committee 17, and is also a Washington Operation Lifesaver volunteer.  He was recently appointed to the University of Washington Tacoma School of Civil Engineering Advisory Board.  Jeff is married, has 3 amazing daughters, and lives in Olympia, WA.

Silent Auction

Longtime AAWA Executive Director Lloyd Flem and others are donating a large collection of rail-related materials to be auctioned in benefit of AAWA. Please bring items you wish to donate.

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Sample itiems available for auction...more to come!

Books

Games

Lamp

Miniatures

Orient Express

Pictures

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