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As many of you know, one of the major impediments to increasing the speed of both passenger and freight trains is the difficulty in getting a train through Chicago. There are horror stories of freights taking three days to get from one side to the other; passenger trains and "hotshots" lose two or three hours in this area at the very least. <br /> <br />Would it be possible to re-route the faster trains so as to skip the mess around the city and instead cross the Mississippi and change railroads in open country, perhaps around Keokuk IA, and then southeast to Peoria IL, and then head northeast to Fort Wayne IN and rejoin the current line? It would save UP about 150 miles on its main line and wouldn't add much to BNSF's line distance. It would be all-new construction and would allow for a very favorable alignment, perhaps allowing freights to run at passenger-train speeds.
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