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Longview News-Journal business editor Mike Elswick, fickle fleeting fingers racing across his keyboard, updates East Texans on business and consumer issues affecting them and the region in his blog -- BizBuzz. Mike, a self-professed business news junkie, joined the News-Journal staff in March 1984 and has covered a variety of issues, events and personalities in that time. His newspaper career has also included time as circulation director and a community newspaper publisher. He and his wife Nancy raised their three children in Longview and they have two grandchildren.

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Rolling toward a stronger rail future

By Mike Elswick | Friday, May 9, 2008, 08:44 AM

Passenger rail travel played an important role in our past and it can do so in the future. That is the theory behind a meeting at 11 a.m. Saturday at Marshall’s historic Texas & Pacific Railway Depot that organizers said has historic significance. Officials from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are slated to be on hand to sign a memorandum of understanding showing unified support and cooperation for a push for higher speed rail in the region.

Live Dixieland Jazz is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and follow after the signing ceremony. For rail buffs, the annual T&P Railway Reunion will be held on the depot grounds from 2 to 4 p.m. Marshall Depot is located on North Washington Avenue where it dead ends at the railroad tracks. Refreshments will be served and the T&P Museum will be open.

The Marshall event is being held in conjunction with National Train Day commemorating the 139th anniversary of the joining of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit.

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