I still haven't figured out why the people surrounding the EJ&E line in the Chicago area (see today's newsline for editorial post) don't understand that a it is the responsibility of the community that straddles RR tracks to provide adequate services on both sides of the tracks. If they're so worried about life-saving fire and ambulance services not being able to get to the other side of the tracks (read: farmfields well away from original city center), then their community should float bonds and build a new firs station. CN shouldn't have to build it for them now just because they're going to run some more trains. EJ&E could've very well sold haulage and or trackage rights and the very same train count/length increase(s) would come -- minus the corporate buyout so many people are railing against and trying to wedge their local improvements into. Seems to me that the locals dropped the ball a long time ago (can you say city planning?), and no just want someone else to pay for it.