Press Conference Participants
December 30, 1999

Participants Credentials
Wayne N. Blattner
  • For the Pottstown and Reading Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, President.
John Thomas Cooper
  • Registered Professional Engineer.
  • Various management positions including that of Operations Planning and Operations Improvements, Conrail and its predecessors 1947-1990.
Tom Dorricott
  • For the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Legislative Representative.
Franklin G. Fisher
  • Registered Professional Engineer.
  • Senior Vice President, Rail Consulting Division, STV, 1973-1993.
  • Vice President of Operations and Maintenance in addition to several preceding positions, The Reading (Railroad) Company, 1953-1973.
Anne Goren
  • Supervisor, Newtown Township.
William H. Hubbard
  • Director, Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority, 1983-1998.
Harry Hyde, Jr.
  • For the Concerned Citizens of the Delaware Valley, President.
Rich Lampert
  • For the East Falls Community Council, Vice President.
Richard Mindler
  • For the Quakertown Train Station Historical Society, President.
  • Member of the Upper Bucks Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee.
Donald Nigro
  • For the Delaware Valley Association of Rail Passengers, President.
John Pawson
  • Mechanical Engineer, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering;
  • Author, Delaware Valley Rails -- The Railroad and Rail Transit Lines of the Philadelphia Area, 1979.
Frank G. Tatnall
  • Chair, SEPTA Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC), 1998-present.
  • Montgomery County Representative, SEPTA CAC, 1995-present .
  • Editor, National Railway Bulletin, 1988-present.
  • Various positions at Conrail 1952-1990 including Manager of Intermodal Planning and Director of Marketing and Planning.
Edson L. Tennyson
  • Registered Professional Engineer.
  • Deputy Secretary of Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, 1972-1979.
  • Deputy Commissioner for Transit Engineering, City of Philadelphia, 1968-1971.
  • City Transit Engineer, City of Philadelphia, 1956-1968.