Members of the Trans-Dominion Express Committee spoke with a group of Tennessee chamber executives meeting in Johnson City, seeking their support for a plan to extend passenger rail service from Lynchburg, Va., to Chattanooga, Tenn. The plan would address a recent Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation study that said this area is too sparsely populated to support such an endeavor.

“We’re trying to encourage [Tennessee] chambers to reach out to local governments in three congressional districts to look into the possibility of starting service from Chattanooga to Knoxville to Bristol. And Virginia would meet them in Bristol. That changes all the numbers and makes a remote possibility into a distinct possibility,” according to Rex Hammond, president and CEO of the Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce. View Story.