For the starter network, the corridor could go through either El Paso and Phoenix or Albuquerque and Flagstaff. With the focus on the 1,000mile and up traffic, its one or the other, but if the electrification of STRACNET continues, it'll end up being both.

Obviously whichever alignment you are on, the other alignment is available to rail freight ... there is, after all, a rail corridor between Flagstaff and Phoenix and between Albuquerque and El Paso, so there are multiple ways to leave one of those two to get onto the other one.

The issue is whichever one you are on, you need to cross over the other one, to allow a multi-model terminal for freight to get off the truck and hit the tracks. I think its workable this way, but wouldn't kick if people wanted it the other way.

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