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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] Sojourner: Mississippi is MS. MI is Michigan. A couple of things of interest from the various reports in [URL=http://www.srrtc.org]www.srrtc.org[/URL] : The line is near dead flat so there are no slow trains due to upgrades. Slow speeds on it usually relate to trains pulling into or out of sidings or waiting for trains to clear up into the sidings. Most of these are 25 mph, as is the speed restriciton on the movable bridges, of which there are several, but the 10 mph crawl would be unlikely on this line. When the Gulf Coast Special, or whatever its name was ran in 1984 it carried very respectable passenger loadings, so a day train across from New Orleans to Mobile should carry a nice number of people. Unfortunately the increase in freight traffic since then says the track capacity is a problem. Connecting siding to give sections of double track would be a very good idea, or simply double track the whole thing between long bridges, which would be relatively cheap, as there is almost no grading involved. Yes the line has suffered significant hurricane damage three times in the last 50 years, but it had been almost 40 years since the last time. Katrina can be considered as an every couple hundred years event, so to use it to justify pulling up the whole thing makes no sense. (Whatever Al Gore is full of, it is not good sense. Global warming, even if real, and even if human induced, will not make that big a difference in the frequency and severity of Gulf hurricanes.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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