The Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Government is contributing $20,000 toward a feasibility study of reinstating intercity rail passenger service between Toledo and Detroit.
The study is expected to cost $50,000 and the City of Toledo has been asked to provide the remaining funds needed.
The study is expected to examine such questions as which route will work out the best and which railroad is most likely to be cooperative.
Toledo and Detroit are linked by routes of Norfolk Southern, CSX and Canadian National.
It is expected that whichever route is chosen will require capital work to bring it up to passenger standards.
The last intercity service between the cities was discontinued in April 1995 when Amtrak ended the Toledo-Detroit leg of the Chicago-Toledo Lake Cities.
Tags: Amtrak, Amtrak's Lake Cities, Canadian National, CSX, intercity passenger rail service, Norfolk Southern, The Lake Cities, Toledo-Detroit rail service
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