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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] We have somewhat gotten away from east of New Orleans, haven't we? My only thought against moving the train to a Baton Rouge routing is that this would take public transport out of a part of Louisiana that is poorly served. Of course until the Sunset becomes daily and maintains a better approximation of its schedule it is not really proviiding any meaningful service to these points eitehr. My primary issue with gp35 is that the huge time savings he sees by going through baton Rouge really do not exist. To make the Iowa Jct. to Kinter switchover is more feasible than it used to be. Before the UP takeover of SP that was a 25 to 30 mph piece of railroad. It is now a 49 mph (for freight) segment. A new connection would have to be built for a more direct access to the bridge at Baton Rouge as, if my look at maps is correct, the direct line used by MoPac passenger trains has been taken up. When I was down in the Opalousas area some 25 year ago, the MoPac line was pretty beat up looking 115 lb jointed rail with early 50's rolling dates. I would assume that this is now in CWR, but maybe not. I would hate to see them try to run a 79P/60F railroad on that stuff, and I do understand that the freights are now allowed 60 mph on this line. There is the possibiliy of running a bus connection Lafayette to Baton Rouge, and having a Baton Rouge to New Orleans train just to serve those two cities. George [/QB][/QUOTE]
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