President George W. Bush appointed him railroad administrator in 2005.
Now three State Assembly members, unhappy with the information available from the railroad, have appointed an advisory committee of local elected officials and business owners to draft a plan of action on the third track and submit it to the Assembly.
Claudius Crozet was appointed Chief Engineer of the Blue Ridge Railroad, and under his leadership and direction, the railroad began construction over the Blue Ridge using a series of four tunnels.
After working under the pioneer railroad builders George and Robert Stephenson, Gooch was appointed, in 1837, locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway.
The government created the railroad, whose board is appointed by the president and Congressional leaders.
While Amtrak says it is making economic progress thanks to increased ridership, a report issued last week by the Amtrak Reform Council, appointed by Congress to oversee the railroad, calls its accounting into doubt.
Several days later, replacement appointments were announced: Magoon was appointed both governor and a member of the Commission, with railroad entrepreneur Theodore P. Shonts made chairman of the Commission.
Congress federalized all railroads in January 1862 and appointed an experienced railwayman, Daniel McCallum, as military director and superintendent of the railways with total power over them.
He said he expected to be appointed soon by President Bush to the railroad's board.
He was appointed a trustee of the Penn Central Railroad in 1970 during its long-running bankruptcy, and later became its president.
