A REPRISE FOR THE DETROIT ARROW?

The Passenger Rail advocates trading as Transport Action Ontario recently made a case for a different service connecting, ultimately, Toronto with Milwaukee.

The presentation might take a while to load; you'll note that the planned routing avoids the former New York Central via Niles and Kalamazoo, and the convolutions to get the train through Detroit are not for the faint of heart.  (Short form: the existing tunnel connects the old Michigan Central to Canadian Pacific, but the existing Windsor to Toronto service uses the former Canadian National that comes nowhere near the tunnel.)

That former Pennsylvania Railroad main line via Fort Wayne has drawn some attention from Passenger Rail advocates of late, in addition to this concept that echoes the old Wabash - Pennsylvania through service, that line is also of interest as a way of getting to Columbus.

At one time, Amtrak ran a French turbotrain set through between Milwaukee and Detroit, although bad timekeeping on Conrail (the Penn Central mindset lasted through Conrail and lives on with Norfolk Southern) delayed the Milwaukee-bound set (which was the end of the working day commuter train that Amtrak doesn't call a commuter train) sufficiently frequently to antagonize the regular riders.

Let's see where this plan goes.