LEWISTON – Gov. John Baldacci has appointed two Lewiston-Auburn residents to serve on the Task Force on Passenger Rail Funding.

Lucien Gosselin, president of the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council, and Martin Eisenstein, a partner in the Lewiston-based law firm of Brann & Isaacson and chairman of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority Board of Directors, will serve on it in an advisory capacity to the governor.

The Maine Department of Transportation will staff the committee. Lewiston resident Greg Nadeau, deputy commissioner of the Department of Transportation, will chair the task force.

A resident of Lewiston, Gosselin has served as Growth Council president since late 1996, and been involved with public administration and economic development for more than 40 years. He has served as director of development and administration for the Maine Development Foundation, worked as real estate marketing director for W.S. Libbey Co. and been vice president of administration for Sisters of Charity Health System.

A resident of Auburn, Eisenstein has been with Brann & Isaacson since 1984, with clients including L.L. Bean, America Online Inc., Time Inc. and Reader’s Digest Association. He was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division from 1977 to 1984. He serves on a number of boards and committees in the Lewiston-Auburn area, and has chaired the boards of the Lewiston-Auburn Economic Growth Council, the Community College Foundation and L/A Arts.