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The reason that there is such a bottleneck for railroadis going through Chicago is that no one railroad goes both east and west through Chicago. All freight going around the city has to use the tracks of the Indiana HArbor Belt, the Belt Railway of Chicago, the Elgin, Joliet & EAstern, or the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal(B&OCT/CSX Transportation). Going over these railroads means going through their railyards and payingtheir crews aswell as the crews from the eastern and western railroads. <br /> Also, there are many types of lift bridges over the Chicago River, the Calumet Harbor, and the Sanitary & Ship Canal that must be opened for boat traffic which cannot move as fast as the trains can, so these bridges are up for lengthy periods of time. <br /> St.Louis is another city with one big problem-no true east-west railroad traffic canmake it through there without using the Terminal RailRoad Association of St.Louis bridges over the Missippi River. That causes bottlenecks for them even though their river bridges were built high enough for riverboat traffic to pass underneath without disrupting freight service.
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