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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon May 7 15:48:16 2012, in response to Rail project is Chicago looks to ease congestion, posted by znufrii on Mon May 7 14:37:44 2012. While I applaud the effort to improve throughput, the fault for the present morass lies squarely at the feet of the big six which have abandoned or downgraded their facilities during the so-called post Staggers Act rail renaissance. Item, there used to be a viable short cut between ATSF and NYC entirely bypassing Chicago. Do BNSF and NS make use of this? The 'mixmaster' of ex PRR, ex NYC, ex B&O west of Gary was reconfigured lowering capacity.In the recent thread on this site, lots of noise was generated concerning the Englewood flyover. The need for this is NOT increased commuter traffic, it is reduced rail capacity and slower interlocking plant function. A look at Official Guides from the 50s would show many more passenger trains passing through. Taking another example, the Kensington interlocking which Jersey Mike carefully described/documented some months back was degraded by having only a single South Shore track cross the IC (now CN) mains. Again a half century ago IC had numerous passenger trains passing through AND freights to/from the downtown yards now part of Millenium Park, while South Shore and IC Electric (now Metra) operated more trains through the plant as well as in the early 50s several NYC/Michigan Central and Big Four passenger trains. |
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