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METRO: In effect, the rail industry IS asking the federal government for incentives for creating a belt line, except instead of going around the city, it goes through the city for reasons I've already elaborated in this thread. IHB and BRC, as agents of the Class Is -- they are owned by the Chicago Class Is -- are fully integrated into Chicago operations already. They all sit in the same office in the same building. There isn't any point to rearranging deck chairs; that just creates turmoil and confusion. EJ&E, for reasons known only to itself, prefers not to participate in the Chicago Transportation Coordination Office. South Shore Line doesn't really figure into any of the line-haul freight picture for Chicago now or in the future. It is not laid out or engineered in a way that would make it useful, though it's right of way could be incorporated in some future scheme if someone has a few hundred million dollars to pay for it. It's an interurban/switching road, not a line-haul or terminal road. It wouldn't work. There is room to add a third main track to CPR between Chicago and Milwaukee. It would just cost money. But before that was necessary, considerable capacity could be added with additional 60-mph crossovers, long leads at stations, etc. OS
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