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Page designer: Joe Canan, 213-5845 www.thestarpress.com Sunday, April 6, 2003 5B Study Break Amtrak will end Kentucky Cardinal route through southern Indiana THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OLIS I JC" 1 "ro i i 'I ft 1 i' J- It 'i i i LiA INDIANAPOLIS Passenger train service through Indiana will become even less frequent this summer when Amtrak ends its route from Indianapolis to Kentucky. The last run of the Kentucky Cardinal to Louisville, is scheduled for July 4 because Amtrak says the route has had few passengers since it began in December 1999. Amtrak will continue its service between Chicago and Indianapolis once a day in each direction. But the move has angered passenger rail advocates in Louisville, where the city spent $370,000 in 2001 to renovate its Union Station. Amtrak, the advocates said, never gave the service a chance.

"We are forming a task force next week to save the train said Jon Owen, head of Kentucky-Indiana Rail Advocates, told The Indianapolis Star for a story Friday. "There is still time. The fat lady hasn't sung yet." Amtrak made its decision after it stopped carrying freight cars on the route and ridership has been too low to keep it running, spokeswoman Karina Van-veen said. Even backers say the Louisville-Indianapolis route was one of the most inconvenient of any Amtrak route. The tracks between Louisville and Indianapolis are in such disrepair that the train cannot travel faster than 30 mph and it takes five hours to travel the 120 miles.

The one-coach train leaves THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AN AMTRAK LOCOMOTIVE sits on the tracks next to a stairway at Union Station in Indianapolis, on Jan. 9, 2003. Passenger train service through Indiana will become even less frequent this summer when Amtrak ends its route from Indianapolis to Kentucky. The last run of the Kentucky Cardinal to Louisville, is scheduled for July 4 because Amtrak says the route has had few passengers since it began in December 1999. Louisville nightly at 9:20 p.m.

director for the Rail Passengers replace the tracks. bought the tracks from Association, said the ride was rough and that frequently only about 10 passengers were on the train. From October through February, 6,624 people rode the Louisville-to-Chicago route. Peter Gilbertson, chairman of the board of Louisville and Indiana Railroad, which owns the track through southern Indiana, said the company never had the financial assistance it needed to and arrives in Indianapolis at 2:30 a.m. Its only other stop is in Jeffersonville.

Travelers continuing to Chicago have a two-hour layover at Union Station in Indianapolis and do not arrive there until 9 a.m. "The leg between Louisville and Chicago is really bad," Owen said. "There is no sleeper car and no food service." Nick Noe, Midwest regional Conrail in 1994 and has invested $10 million in improvements so far. Replacing the 50-year-old tracks would cost $40 million. "The joints are bent and don't permit high speeds on them," Gilbertson said.

"We've talked to the state Department of Transportation and some cities about getting some grants, but it just seems like there isn't a lot of interest in it." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DERRICK WOODSON, 10, of South Bend, launches himself into the play as Notre Dame student Kevin Haas, 20, grabs the pass last week during a study break. Haas participates in the "Slice of Life" mentoring and tutoring program, which helps urban youth. Iraqis treated Indiana peace activist well Explosives suspect on 3-years probation THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -A man who kept 10 gunpowder-filled cannisters in his apartment was ordered to serve three years' probation. William Henits, 42, could later go to prison depending on whether he complies with probation rules.

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"Our role was to try to give a human voice to what was happening in the city of Baghdad," he said. He stayed there through the first several days of U.S. bombing before Iraqi officials expelled him and several others for taking unauthorized photographs of damage caused by bombings. Kindy spoke Friday to about 100 students and others at Manchester College near his northern Indiana farm, the day after he arrived back in the United States. He told the students that war is never the answer.

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