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- Still a Flood Watch…but Drier
- Federal Stimulus $$: Now Flowing to a Town near You
- Tribune Editorial: Beware the new CSX deal
- Court rules against Crist in fight over diversity in judicial appointments
- More heavy rain possible today
- Wilkinson to announce congressional race (?) Thursday
- Greer: No “pay to play” with black media
- Flood watch in effect in Tampa Bay area
- Crist signs water bill that drew objections
- Dockery 4th most powerful person in Orlando, says mag
- Pro-drilling Dem draws primary challenge
- Crist, Henriquez seek SOE post
- Sachs/M-D poll shows McCollum leading Sink
- Heavy rain possible today
- Florida congressional delegation opposes changes in drilling limits
I am grateful to Josh at Empirical Polk for his embellishment of my post on the CSX main lines that cross only in Polk County. I think Josh is entirely correct that the crossing I first cited is not the big crossing. Instead, and I’m waiting on CSX to confirm this, I think it actually happens dead in the heart of Lakeland, just off Lake Wire, not half-a-mile from where I work in downtown.
But, as you can see, there’s not a classic crossing. Rather, the more western S-line and more eastern A-line run together on a single east-west line that runs through downtown Lakeland over to Winter Haven.
With that in mind, consider this: CSX is planning to run virtually all its freight traffic in Florida on the S-line into the huge new integrated logistics center. It’s freeing up the A-line for a potential communter rail system. There’s only one route those trains on the S-line can take if they’re heade for the big new center, if I’m reading the map correctly. That route runs smack through downtown Lakeland.
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