Are noisy CN/EJ&E trains derailing lives?
(The following story by Amy Lee appeared on the Southtown Star website on October 13, 2009.) CHICAGO An influx of nighttime train traffic on the old Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Co. tracks has Ken Kemp questioning his sanity. “We’re all going crazy. It startles you to death,” said Kemp, 61, an electrical contractor who has lived in his Park Forest home since 1992. “It sounds like someone’s slamming two cast iron pans together right by your ear at 2 in the morning. Ever since they got this line, it’s gotten a lot worse.” IDOT objections The Illinois Department of Transportation in September filed a petition with the federal Surface Transportation Board to reopen the sale of the EJ&E rail line to the Canadian National Railway Co. IDOT says the EJ&E/CN sale agreement does not allow the state agency enough time to begin construction on required grade separations at Ogden Avenue in Aurora and Lincoln Highway in Lynwood. The agreement called for IDOT to begin that work by 2015, and IDOT
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