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Well guys, I think that former WC / CN intermodal train from Green Bay to Chicago and back is pretty much dead. (Formerly 218 / 219, more recently GBHA / HAGB ) They'd had a service problem for a long time. They'd get from GB to Schiller Park ok, but they de-ramped on the South Side @ the old Illinois Central Harvey Yard and it took them forever to get from Schiller to Harvey. Given that they'd get there late, they'd then miss connecting trains out of Chicago and the whole thing fell apart. Recently the whiz kids at CN decided that this rotten service commanded a rate hike. A big, big rate hike. Observers in the Manitowoc area report significantly increased numbers of orange trailers on I-43 running between the Fox River Valley and Chicago ramps. Observers in the Appleton area aren't observing too much in the way of Intermodal trains. The ramp at Green Bay is pretty much a ghost town as of about 2 weeks ago. There's just a few rail containers hanging around. I suppose they could drag some of that stuff up here (low priority container freight) mixed into a manifest train. Funny how Soo and WC made this work for the last 15 or so years and CN killed it in just about a year.
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