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- The original working brand name for NRPC was " Railpax ", which eventually became " Amtrak ".
- NRPC was started by volunteer Nortel pensioners from Ottawa in an effort to obtain court approval to have this non-profit organization sponsored by Nortel Networks.
- The Nixon administration and many Washington insiders viewed the NRPC as a politically expedient way for the President and Congress to give passenger trains a " last hurrah " as demanded by the public.
- In his statement to the Finance Standing Committee on March 25, 2010, Don Sproule, president of the NRPC, stated that 11, 000 pensioners or surviving spouses are entitled, and 700 pensioners or surviving spouses are not entitled to medical benefits.
- At the time, many Washington insiders viewed the corporation as a face-saving way to give passenger trains the one " last hurrah " demanded by the public, but expected that the NRPC would quietly disappear in a few years as public interest waned.