Does anyone have any information on UP's plans to run coal trains from 
southern Illinois over the former Chicago & Northwestern trackage, 
Chicago-Harvard IL, now shared with Metra commuter rail? Buzz at the hobby 
shop is that UP wants to do this, but Metra is fighting the idea. I live near 
this line, and UP has been doing considerable trackwork...24-car ballast 
train shuttling back and forth almost daily, lots of work trains with 
self-propelled cranes, grade crossing upgrades (one at Bryn Mawr ave.), etc. 
Upgrading for 10,000 tonners? 
     I remember a Wisconsin Electric unit train that came in over the 
Illinois Central and then went to the Chicago & Northwestern en route to WEPX 
up north when I lived on the south side next to ICRR main line in the 
'70s...perhaps this would be a continuation/rerouting/reinstatement of this 
service?
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