Focus Term: Rail-Trail Champion

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A Conversation With the 2021 Rail-Trail Champion: Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb
January 25, 2022

RTC is honoring Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb as the 2021 Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champion for the state’s Next Level Trails program.

Gov. Eric Holcomb at the Next Level Trails program announcement in 2019 | Courtesy Indiana Department of Natural Resources
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Rail-Trail Champion Eleanor Holmes Norton on Linking the Nation by Trail
January 28, 2021

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy has named Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) America’s 2020 Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champion.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton delivering her keynote remarks at the May 8, 2019, launch of the Great American Rail-Trail in Washington, D.C. | Courtesy RTC
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Rail-Trail Movement Mourns a Great Friend, Philanthropist Jeff Doppelt
January 21, 2021

Jeffrey L. Doppelt of Great Neck, New York, an enthusiastic ambassador and philanthropist for rail-trails, passed away from COVID-19.

Jeff Doppelt, rail-trail supporter and philanthropist, on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail | Photo courtesy Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
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Pete Raynor, Railbanking Author, Named 2018 Rail-Trail Champion
September 27, 2018

Pete Raynor, central author of Railbanking legislation, was named 2018 Rail-Trail Champion. The 1983 Railbanking Act helped make many trails.

2018 Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champions Award ceremony honoring Pete Raynor | Photo by Hung Tran
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Former Congressman Tom Petri Named RTC’s 2016 Rail-Trail Champion
December 06, 2016

RTC is pleased to name former U.S. Congressman Tom Petri as the 2016 Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champion in recognition of his decades of support for rail-trails and active transportation infrastructure.

A nostalgic image of former Congressman Tom Petri biking with his daughter Alexandra (now a columnist with the Washington Post) and wife Ann (DeDe) Petri | Photo courtesy Tom Petri
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RTC’s Marianne Wesley Fowler Named 2014 Rail-Trail Champion
June 06, 2014

RTC is excited to announce Marianne Wesley Fowler of Alexandria, Va., as this year’s Doppelt Family Rail-Trail Champion.

Photos courtesy Rails-to-Trails Conservancy