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    Making trains run on time

    DETANGLING CHICAGO’S RAIL MESS WOULD BE A WIN FOR BOTH COMMUTERS AND COMPANIES
    by JOSH SANBURN Apr 01, 2017 3 minutes
    More than 8,400 rail cars a day run through lines operated by the Belt Railway Company of Chicago

    THE MOST CONGESTED CHOKE POINT for train traffic in North America is here in Chicago. It’s where trains carrying Iowa corn meet black tankers full of North Dakota oil, where railcars with Wyoming coal rattle past others with Michigan SUVs.

    One-quarter of all rail traffic in the U.S.—1,300 trains a day—transit this city, including six of the seven biggest railroads in the country. Almost anything traveling from coast to coast comes through here, where train traffic has become so tangled that old railroad hands like to joke it takes trains three days to get from Los Angeles

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