The NNEPRA Open House, held yesterday in Portland, successfully brought together rail advocates and the public to hear an in-depth briefing by Executive Director Patricia Quinn about proposed Downeaster service enhancements.

Topics covered:

• Wells track improvements
• Inbound morning service from Wells to Portland and Brunswick
• New location for Portland train station
• New station in West Falmouth
• New service between Westbrook & Portland
• Lewiston-Auburn service

Again, these are proposals that NNEPRA is actively pursuing. 

Unable to attend? Here's her presentation.

This was a well-organized gathering with color-coded dots for the attendees to express their passenger rail preferences. They gathered at tables...

talked through their priorities and then a spokesperson from each reported their list to the more than 100 in attendance. You can get a sense of the involved excitement by watching this short natural sound clip.

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