(The following appeared on the Times website on February 27, 2011.)
MUNSTER, Ind. — Northwest Indiana business leaders want to capitalize on the coming deluge of trains expected to move through the region in the next two decades, but first they have to find a way to get some of those trains to stop here.
At a Dec. 15 rail summit at the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission, railroad representatives explained most products delivered to Northwest Indiana by long-distance rail actually go into Chicago first and then make their way back to the region by truck or short-haul railroad.
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