Because the STRACNET corridor to Pensacola connects to the corridor through Mobile to New Orleans to the west, and the corridor through the Florida panhandle through to Jacksonville, to the east.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

... the Mobile extension - it also address the Triangle-T problem by connecting the Memphis and Chattanooga corridors to the Birmingham/Nashville corridor at Decauter, so there are two through corridors, SW/Atlanta and South/Nashville.

The non-STRACNET rail corridor is in the lighter blue.

Also note that the STRACNET corridor from Mobile through to NOLA is right on the coast - AFAIU, that's where the breaks were that cut the California / Texas / Florida Amtrak service. But its in the Southeast, so there's not the variety of existing rail corridors available that we have in the Great Lakes.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.