Bi-State on track to open extension. (Industry Today).(on passenger rail line in Illinois)(Brief...

Publication: Railway Track and Structures
Date: Tuesday, May 1 2001

Bi-State Development Agency in the St. Louis area is opening its St. Clair County, Ill., MetroLink Extension May 7. The extension stretches 17.4 miles from the 5th and Missouri Station in East St. Louis, Ill., to the campus of Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville using newly-constructed right-of-way and abandoned former CSXT righ

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