Amtrak talking about Empire Builder expansion

[Anderson]

I'd forgotten about the at-grade junctions (something Chicago is cursed with many of).

 

[benroethig]

I would bet that plan B is that if Walker gets re-elected next year, Minnesota/Amtrak will look into using Dubuque or Davenport>Mississippi route for their HSR project. Amtrak is already talking about an Ilinois run to Iowa, so if the tea party governor and legislature stay intact in Wisconsin, they would at least have an option, or an option to pressure Wisconsin into getting on board.

Probably not, but the Empire Builder did originally run on the Great Northern Tracks that BNSF now owns pre-Amtrak was was routed through East Dubuque and Prairie du Chien. When Amtrak took over the route, they moved it over to the Milwaukee road tracks used by the Twin Cities Hiawatha.

 

[Eric S]

Probably not, but the Empire Builder did originally run on the Great Northern Tracks that BNSF now owns pre-Amtrak was was routed through East Dubuque and Prairie du Chien. When Amtrak took over the route, they moved it over to the Milwaukee road tracks used by the Twin Cities Hiawatha.

That was a CB&Q line from Chicago to St. Paul, right? (Jointly owned by GN and NP)

 

[benroethig]

Probably not, but the Empire Builder did originally run on the Great Northern Tracks that BNSF now owns pre-Amtrak was was routed through East Dubuque and Prairie du Chien. When Amtrak took over the route, they moved it over to the Milwaukee road tracks used by the Twin Cities Hiawatha.

That was a CB&Q line from Chicago to St. Paul, right? (Jointly owned by GN and NP)

Yeah.