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Originally Posted by jpIllInoIs
Thats what I thought when I read the CN Heritage/CSX-IAS connector loop in downtown Joliet. Sheer lunacy to clearcut a fairly dense downtown core for a train that may have 5 rt/day. And to be oblivious of the near-term plan to reroute All Amtrak trains off of said CN Heritage to the Rock Island in Joliet..just challenges the veracity of this "study".
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Add to that the fact that long ago the Surface Transportation Board ruled Amtrak must get the Lincoln Service and Texas Eagle trains off the CN/Heritage Corridor line, though a deadline for complying was never issued. Likely one of many reasons Amtrak is fronting the Air Line Connector project.
Also, given CN's open hostility to passenger rail, there is absolutely no way they would have allowed a single new passenger train on the Heritage line, much less ten. IDOT's experience trying to place the entire Blackhawk route onto the Freeport sub, and then attempting just the Rockford-Mississippi River portion, would have taught them that.