@xavier_hm @straphanger heck yeah, I rode the train to Milwaukee and back last time I visited Chicago and it was great! We have the Amtrak Cascades here and it's definitely not perfect but such a great thing to have available (and it goes to Canada too!)

@xavier_hm @straphanger It is actually true that passenger trains get legal priority over freight in the US, even on freight-owned track!

There's a loophole though: if you make the freight trains longer than the sidings, the dispatcher can send the freight first because the shorter Amtrak train is the only one that can physically give way.

Additionally, if the passenger train is running late it forfeits priority, which causes it to get stuck behind more freight and get more late, rinse and repeat.