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Originally Posted by Centropolis
Why can't St Louis and Kansas City handle more of the rail traffic and intermodal burden of Chicago ? I think they are already number 3 and number 2 hubs already. I'm guessing St Louis is a bit of a bottleneck though too with the Mississippi as well as the lack of trackage cutting through the Ozarks and the weird mashup of eastern and western railroads. A few years ago it seemed like KC was really expanding multimodal capacity.
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Or Minneapolis, OKC or Dallas, for that matter (all central cities along that I-35 corridor). Minneapolis, particularly, isn't a large detour for shipments to/from places North of (and including) San Francisco, and is/was also one of the largest rail hubs in the U.S. So they could share the burden for those shipments. Not to mention that trains could detour North of Chicago through the U.P. of Michigan. Dallas, Indy, STL, KC, OKC, etc. could all be options for shipments to/from areas south of (and including) San Francisco, including the almighty LA.