CP Intermodals on NS Through Michigan Into Chicago Status??

[Anonymous]

I read in Trains a few months back where CP is going to run intermodals out of Canada down the NS Detroit to Ft. Wayne line to get into Chicago instead of across Michigan further to the North. When they get to Butler, IN a new spur is supposed to go in so that the trains can enter the ex-NYC main (ex Conrail) the rest of the way into Chicago. In Butler there is a bowling alley that has set idle and now is being refurbished as a business again. The spur would have to go right through the bowling alley. I have been told that unless something changes with this business the proposed cannot happen. Anyone heard the status on this topic. I live in SE Michigan approx. 3 miles from this line. Looking foward to some red engines to go with the black NS's.
Ron

[Anonymous]

Apparently construction of the new connection in Butler has restarted. Don't know anything about the status of the bowling alley.
All I know about the CP trains right now is that they are still coming through Grand Rapids up here.

[Anonymous]

Not sure about NS, but CP trains come up on CSX's Plymouth subdivision into CSX's Wyoming Yard (in Wyoming, Mi, just outside of Grand Rapids), change crews and continue on to Chicago via CSX. I've never seen a CP run-through on NS around here.

[ValleyX]

The wye is under construction, the bowling alley is staying, which has caused NS to build a much sharper wye. CP traffic will move to the route via Elkhart and it's my understanding that CP is building a separate yard office in Elkhart.

[Justicar]

I heard 25mph on the new Butler connection.