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Overview of BNSF, UP, and CN, And the Freight Rail Industry’s Footprint in Chicago

Event Type
Webinar
Sponsor
UIC Urban Transportation Center
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Jun 6, 2025   12:00 pm  
Speaker
Peter Skosey (BNSF Railway), Tom Evenson (Union Pacific Railroad), and Kevin Donahue (Canadian National Railway)
Registration
Registration
Contact
Edward Bury
E-Mail
ebury@uic.edu
Originating Calendar
NURail CoE Calendar

This special noontime webinar is being co-sponsored by the UTC and Transport Chicago.  Visit this page to register for Transport Chicago 2025, which will be held June 13 at the voco Chicago Downtown Hotel.

Key topics to be addressed include:

  • Technological improvements that BNSF (and much of the industry) is doing to improve air quality around our operations
  • Freight/economic trends we are seeing at UP
  • The CREATE program – a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership between the freight railroads, Amtrak, Metra, Chicago DOT, IDOT, FHWA/FRA to improve Chicago’s rail transportation network. $2 billion has been spent so far to untangle Chicago’s freight and passenger rail networks, making it more efficient and environmentally friendly

The event will be held via zoom.

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