Any updates on what’s going on with the St. Charles Air Line?
I know that the city of Chicago wanted it closed, and traffic has decreased on it since the CN EJ&E acquisition, but it’s still used by Amtrak and some CN freight.
I haven’t heard much recently, so in light of all the changes, like Daley no longer running for mayor, are there still plans to abandon it and the CN track north of Grand Crossing? Is that connector at Grand Crossing going to get built or not?
Sawtooth500:
This link will take you to the CREATE website : http://www.createprogram.org/projects.html
Your interest is in Project P-4 Grand Crossing ( website shows the initial phase at 30% as of 12/2010 for the NEPA design phase.
It would appear that the maintainer of the website is about a quarter behind in updates.
FRA web site at: http://www.fra.dot.gov/rpd/freight/1486.shtml
At the bottom of that linked page(FRA) is the URL for the CREATE website:http://www.createprogram.org/
Hope this will get you the answers you seek.