We're talking about the NARP dream of added service...not the separate plans that were to reroute the SWC, if the original route could not be maintained any longer.I thought the "plan" was for a flat out reroute and not a through car branch. Is there even any switching cap at Amarillo? And if you're going to add through cars to the SWC wouldn't it make more sense to do Denver-Pueblo-somewhere (and I have no idea where the split would be) rather than a Wichita branch?
In any event, the two lines merge again at Dalies, NM, just a short distance from Belen and Albuquerque. The Santa Fe lines form a sort of triangle in the area...The north-south line from Albuquerque to El Paso, crosses the east-west Transcon line at Belen. The third side of the triangle is the line from Isleta (between Albuquerque and Belen) that "cuts the corner" northeast to southwest to Dalies....the route that the SWC currently uses...
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