The Great Lakes Basin Railroad is a proposed railroad in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. The intended route bypasses Chicago to avoid its rail congestion, running from Janesville, Wisconsin, to

Michigan City, Indiana Michigan City is a city in LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. It is one of the two principal cities of the Michigan City-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City Combined sta ...

. The project's estimated cost is $8 billion, privately financed. On May 1, 2017, the Great Lake Basin Railroad filed its construction application with the

Surface Transportation Board The Surface Transportation Board (STB) of the United States is a federal, bipartisan, independent adjudicatory board. The STB was established on January 1, 1996, to assume some of the regulatory functions that had been administered by the Intersta ...

. On August 30, 2017 the Surface Transportation Board unanimously rejected GLB's application.

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* Illinois railroads Indiana railroads Wisconsin railroads {{US-rail-transport-stub