Rail Users’ Network

RUN is a 501 (c )(3) tax exempt organization which undertakes the following activities on behalf of rail passengers and transit rail users:
    • Encourages the development and use of customer-friendly rail passenger services that are affordable, efficient, and reliable.
    • Encourages expansion of existing service, as well as new starts to promote greater mobility and improve the economic vitality of regions.
    • Actively seeks the views of rail passengers, including those with special needs, and those potential passengers not yet served by rail.
    • Represents rail and rail transit passengers’ interests to the industry and to those who regulate or influence it.
    • Actively encourages rail and rail transit operators to become more accountable to their customers by including them in all levels of evaluation, decision-making, and planning.
    • Provides forums to exchange “best practice” for existing advocacy groups, and assists start-up groups in becoming legislatively mandated.
    • Encourages connectivity between all modes.

Registrations are now open for our Fall 2024 Annual Conference


RUN members enjoy award-winning newsletters, regional and international conferences, annual meetings and regional rail forums to share information, while working to improve and expand rail passenger service. We also offer a monthly email feature called Short RUNS, which is designed to keep members up-to-date on advocacy and some of the major issues affecting rail/transit riders.

Join RUN and make your voice heard! Don’t get left behind at the station!

October 3, 2024. Read RUN’s letter to Congressional Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure regarding the return of “the Floridian.”

September 22, 2024. Read our letter to the U.S. House of Representatives in regard to Amtrak Board Transparency

August 30, 2023. Read our letter to Transportation Secretary Buttigieg

June 7, 2023. Read our letter to Congressman Sam Graves

September 10, 2022. Read our letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg

March 16, 2022. Read our letter to Senator Maria Cantwell

February 1, 2022. Read our letter to Representative Peter DeFazio

April 6, 2021. Read our letter to Congressman Peter Defazio

April 2, 2021. Read our letter to Senator Richard Blumenthal

August 19, 2020. Read The Rail Users Network letter regarding AMTRAK cutbacks (pdf).