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Learning About Trains In Atlanta And Lakeland


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.



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Jennifer Leigh:

Jennifer Leigh, a reporter in Polk County, joined News Channel 8 in March 1993. She is a fifth-generation Floridian, who was born in Miami and grew up in Polk County. Email


Joe Martin:

Joe Martin is a photojournalist for NewsChannel 8. He recently moved here from Harrisburg, Penn. Martin, 26, has also worked in television in Wilkes-Barre, Penn. and Las Vegas. "I got into this business because I love meeting new people, and telling their stories," Martin says. Email


Ted Hoffman:

Ted Hoffman, an award-winning newspaper writer, editor, critic and columnist for 30 years on both coasts, but not at the same time, lives in Lakeland with his wife and son. An anthologized fiction writer and former stand-up comedian, he spends his free time knitting toupees for bald eagles. Email


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