ST. LOUIS – Taking the train from St. Louis to Chicago will soon take less time.
Trains will now increase speed from 90 miles an hour to 110. That will cut travel time by 15 minutes.
The new schedules for the Lincoln Service begin June 26. Most of the $2 billion cost of upgrading the tracks came from the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act.
Construction work took eight years and five more years of testing.