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FEB 27 OH ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1992 Train Panel Approves Fee Raises THE ft AUTHORITY jo) IS By Mark Schlinkmann Regional Political Correspondent Additional payments to three engineering firms of more than $3.6 million for work on the Metro Link rail line were endorsed Wednesday by a Bi-State Development Agency committee. Bi-State officials said the amount the largest single payment is about $2.7 million to Sverdrup Corp. will not add to the overall $330 million cost of building Metro Link. The amount will come out of a contingency fund that set aside $18 million when the program began for unanticipated design and construction costs.

Other change orders had been approved earlier. If ratified by the full Bi-State board, 7 196 196 196 196 RAWLINGS. the plan will drop the amount remain RAWLINGS CAL RIPKEN JR. YOUTH Wm 1 Ifll OZZIE SMITH BASEBALL ing in the fund to about $11 million, WILSON OPTIMA GOLD BASEBALL GLOVE 14" angle weave web, flexible power and snap back. Other pending change order requests BASEBALL GLOVE total $6 million to $7 million.

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Amtrak officials say cutting the St. Louis link will save $1.4 million in annual operating costs and could help reduce federal subsidies to Amtrak by about $800,000 a year. The train used one locomotive with a four-person crew and just one passenger car, said Richard A. Eichhorst, president of the American Association of Railroaders Inc. in St.

Louis. Amtrak officials said just 23,000 passengers used the link between St. Louis and Carbondale last year an average of about 23 passengers per trip. A spokesman for Amtrak described that ridership as "very disappointing. On these routes it comes down to a simple principle: 'Use it or lose The St.

Louis-Carbondale route Is an extension of the "River Cities" rail line that operates regularly between St Louis and Kansas City. That service, which is subsidized by the state of Missouri, would not be threatened by the new Amtrak plan. Carbondale is the Southern Illinois link to the Chicago-to-New Orleans rail route, which also would continue under the new plan, Eichhorst said he believed rider-ship between Carbondale and St Louis decreased because the tracks gradually have been reduced from two lines to one. Passing trains must use cutouts to past one another. The shorter passenger trains must wait for freight trains to go by, so the trips were slow.

One rider complained that the train from St. Louis to Carbondale didn't arrive until 12:30 a.m., making it inconvenient Amtrak's board is expected to make the final decision on canceling the route by May 27. The public is invited to make comments to Amtrak about the proposed route change between March 1 and April 30. Simon said he would write Amtrak. "I fought hard to get this rail service between St.

Louis and Carbondale, and I intend to fight equally as hard to preserve it," he said. "Amtrak service is Carbondale's lone public transit outlet to St. Louis." Poshard said Carbondale needed the access to St. Louis. "But if Amtrak is in fact losing money, as it suggests," he said, "then it is hard to support continued taxpayer subsidies at a time -when the budget is floating, in red ink." 96 74 99 converts 199 It's what's inside that counts.

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