except it was not a train but a highway - one of several "roads to nowhere", with the one nicknamed "The Blue Route" (one of the earliest monikers for it), that was eventually designated a part of I-476.
Planning for it began in 1929 and some construction started in the '50s and '60s, where that stopped and started for another 30 or so years, with dead-ends cropping up continually over that period, as rights-of-way and environmental impacts were halting construction.
Eventually after 63 years, many court cases (including a SCOTUS rejection to hear them), and $600 million dollars, it was finally completed in December 1992. 
The long and colorful saga of the Blue Route
One of my BILs uses it extensively. I just go the old-fashioned way if I need to go somewhere near it.
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