Realistically, cooperation is likely to remain bad. The biggest attainable improvement for Amtrak would be if the freight roads/FedGov highballed this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Basin_Railroad … CHI is Amtrak's bottleneck because every class I interchanges there.
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(And also because it has America's most robust regional commuter network). Good news is that rail transport is changing. There are now more unit (single-commodity) trains than ever before, so swapping them out in one piece elsewhere has the potential to reduce CHI congestion.
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Metra isn't more robust than the three networks around NYC...
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I don't know that region well, so I'll defer. "most robust commuter rail with a significant freight presence" then. Because freight in and around NYC is a formality at this point, while Chicago serves as the national hub.
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