BOB R Wrote:
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> BTW, wouldn't double tracking the tunnel at Point
> Defiance in Tacoma do more than any other effort
> to improve passenger speeds in the PNW, and serve
> our freight networks too?
There is a related plan to get Sounder and Amtrak (all passenger trains thru Tacoma) off the tracks around Point Defiance and onto the former NP Prairie Line. This requires construction of a connection between the old MILW line and the Prairie line. More on this project here:
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www.wsdot.wa.gov]
Getting the passenger trains off the Point Defiance line will have a side benefit of clearing that line for more UP and BNSF freight.