About

Stu Nicholson

Stu Nicholson

Stu joined the Rail Passengers Association Board of Directors in 2024. He also serves as Communications Director for the Lakeshore Rail Alliance and is the former Executive Director of All Aboard Ohio.

A self-described “recovering journalist”, Stu previously spent a 22-year career in television news as an award-winning reporter.

Stu also has 15 years of experience in public relations and media relations as:

Public Information Director (PIO) and Communications Director for the Central Ohio Transit Authority
Public Info Officer for the Ohio Rail Development Commission
Represented Ohio Governors Taft and Strickland on the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission

Favorite Original Quote: “Mobility is the essence of our freedom. To the extent we are made less mobile, we are less free. This best captures why I advocate for more and better passenger rail.”

"Saving the Pennsylvanian (New York-Pittsburgh train) was a local effort but it was tremendously useful to have a national organization [NARP] to call upon for information and support. It was the combination of the local and national groups that made this happen."

Michael Alexander, NARP Council Member
April 6, 2013, at the Harrisburg PA membership meeting of NARP