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Learning About Trains In Atlanta And Lakeland

Posted May 7, 2007 by Billy Townsend

Updated May 7, 2007 at 02:41 PM

As a gaggle of Polk County commissioners and government officials heads north to Atlanta to tour an Atlanta rail hub as background for considering the planned CSX hub in Winter Haven, a regular PCNB reader has called to let me know that a CSX train has apparently broken down through downtown Lakeland, snarling traffic. My reader tells me he’s been in traffic for 90 minutes.

Police radio traffic indicates that it is a CSX train that’s broken down and that there’s no prediction for when it will be removed. This is precisely the type of impact that critics of the train project fear.