On NPR, privatized roads and a late Coast Starlight

NPR's Morning Edition ran a story on public toll roads in Chicago and Indiana that have recently been privatized. That story led straight into a piece on the hours-late Coast Starlight, with some emphasis on the Union Pacific Railroad, principal "host" for the Starlight. Host Renee Montagne noted that passenger-train advocates have asked the Surface Transportation Board to review whether freight railroads are giving priority to Amtrak trains as they are supposed to.