(rshsdepot) End of the Line for White River Station Steward

["Kenyon Karl" <kenyon_@_getglobal.net>]

White River Junction -- When this week ends, the doors to the Amtrak station
will still be open and the trains will still run.

But Bill Brigham, the 63-year-old stationmaster who does everything from
planning passengers’ trips to making the morning coffee, will be gone after
the Vermonter pulls out of the station Friday evening.

Amtrak eliminated the stationmaster positions at four Vermont stations,
including the one in White River Junction, to try to save between $300,000
and $350,000, said Charlie Miller, director of rail with the state
Department of Transportation. The company made the layoffs a condition of
the new contract with the state of Vermont, which subsidized the positions.

[more at http://www.vnews.com/09252002/666424.htm]


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