By Dustin Duncan, The Southern; May 10, 2018
CARBONDALE — U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin pressed the Federal Railroad Administration Thursday to take a more active role to ensure Amtrak service is on time in Illinois and around the country.
“Amtrak’s Chicago-Champaign-Carbondale route continues to be one of the worst preforming routes in the country,” Durbin wrote in a letter to administration. “The Illini and Saluki trains are consistently delayed by CN’s (Canadian National Railway) freight interference and the ongoing speed restrictions put in place by CN in 2015.”
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