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Blueprint America | Choke Point | PBS

Duration: 10:13
Program: Blueprint America: Road to the Future

Chicago has been a freight rail hub for the past 150 years, but an outdated layout often makes it a bottleneck for the country's shipping network. Blueprint America correspondent Rick Karr reports on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

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Post Date: November 24, 2010