by eolesen
Assuming CN gets a leg up... perhaps there's still a case to be made for CP to be aligning with UP.
There'd be some redundancy and minor duplication, but I could also see the somewhat parallel Soo/MILW and CNW mains being a plus- coordinated, it could become a separated two track main between Chicago-Milwaukee-St Paul (something UP already does in Texas).
CP currently runs on the UP to get from their Chicago-Milwaukee line into Bensenville, and I'm sure that real estate (immediately adjacent to O'Hare) could be put to better use by the Tollway (who already wants to build an interchange there).
Chicago has more than enough intermodal capacity, and that same connection for CP on the UP leads to Proviso.
If Canada really has no say, maybe STB could swallow two at once.
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There'd be some redundancy and minor duplication, but I could also see the somewhat parallel Soo/MILW and CNW mains being a plus- coordinated, it could become a separated two track main between Chicago-Milwaukee-St Paul (something UP already does in Texas).
CP currently runs on the UP to get from their Chicago-Milwaukee line into Bensenville, and I'm sure that real estate (immediately adjacent to O'Hare) could be put to better use by the Tollway (who already wants to build an interchange there).
Chicago has more than enough intermodal capacity, and that same connection for CP on the UP leads to Proviso.
If Canada really has no say, maybe STB could swallow two at once.
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