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Marni Pyke | Daily Herald

Suburban mayors urge feds to slow railroad merger after Ohio derailment

DuPage Rail Safety Council Chair Lanny Wilson is flanked by local mayors and lawmakers as he outlines concerns about a merger of Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway. (Marni Pyke/Daily Herald)

With a decision on a railroad merger coming soon, suburban mayors and lawmakers on Monday exhorted federal regulators to postpone any decisions given a recent catastrophic derailment in Ohio.

“It’s a nightmare for me, and I think every mayor thinks the same thing: ‘What happens if that happens in my town?’” Elgin Mayor Dave Kaptain said during a briefing in Itasca organized by the Coalition to Stop CPKC.

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