Blueprint America — with The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer — in a report from the Midwest on the direction and congestion of America’s freight rail network.
The community of Barrington, IL, an outlying suburb in the Chicago area, has had freight re-routed to pass through the city. Residents are not too happy. Still, the shift in train traffic is likely to lessen the congestion of freight in the City of Chicago.
And while the City of Chicago, railroads, and federal authorities have developed a plan to ease freight train traffic, it won’t be complete for years. As a result, the freight carrier Canadian National did what it could and moved some of its trains away from the metopolitan area.
Correspondent Rick Karr reports.
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