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QUOTE: Originally posted by M.W. Hemphill Methinks you've been beguiled by lines on a map instead of enlightened by the plant in the field, Andrew. Have you taken an upclose look at the throughput capacity of the yards, main tracks, and junctions in Detroit? No? Well, think Chicago, except with even greater problems. Anyway, a Detroit interchange gets you less than nowhere. The traffic in question is moving between the Southwest Territory and Eastern Canada. Assuming you did interchange from CN/CPR to NS/CSX in Detroit, now you have to get it to UP. That forces the traffic through Toledo on CSX, if it's to avoid Chicago -- and Toledo isn't pretty, either. On NS, it forces it down the Wabash which is capacity constrained by autos and autoparts. Either way it eventually has to go onto the C&EI, which is capacity constrained, or into St. Louis, which is a place to be avoided. The solution is at least twice as worse as the problem. Andrew, Detroit for all railroads except CPR is really on the end of everyone's branch line -- and CPR is on trackage rights from just west of the tunnel portal onward. No major trunk line, in the true sense of the term, runs through Detroit. It's a place set up to generate and consume traffic, not a place set up to pass through traffic.
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