Sawtooth500So I'm trying to wrap my head around this... In the feasibility study Amtrak released about restoring rail service between Chicago and Quad Cities IL, using one of their routes they'd have to build a connector track between the BNSF and IAIS near Wyanet, IL. The price: $5.6 Million! For a single connector track? Seriously! I know that you have to clear the land and grade it, but seriously, that number seems absolutely ridiculous! Take a look at a satellite photo of this junction. On the photo the likely route of the connector track is in yellow. As you can see, it would be just slightly over 0.6 miles long, no bridges needed. So why in the world $5.6 million?
It doesn't seem ridiculous to me.
RWM
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