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QUOTE: Originally posted by NW_611 The way I understand it, an "air line" is one that goes from point A to point B in as straight a line as possible. This doesn't always happen of course, but you bypass certain smaller communities in order to keep the line aimed at the eventual destination. One gives up various traffic opportunities, but maybe it's made up on speed. I suppose it's more of a marketing term than anything; the Seaboard Air Line didn't exactly run in a straight line from Richmond, Virginia to Miami, Florida. An article I read on the company in fact indicated that it did anything but.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mucable QUOTE: Originally posted by NW_611 The way I understand it, an "air line" is one that goes from point A to point B in as straight a line as possible. This doesn't always happen of course, but you bypass certain smaller communities in order to keep the line aimed at the eventual destination. One gives up various traffic opportunities, but maybe it's made up on speed. I suppose it's more of a marketing term than anything; the Seaboard Air Line didn't exactly run in a straight line from Richmond, Virginia to Miami, Florida. An article I read on the company in fact indicated that it did anything but. You're right, the SAL isn't very straight from Miami to Richmond, but it did have the longest stretch of tangent mainline in North America. Hint: it's in Florida!
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QUOTE: Originally posted by NW_611 Seaboard Air Line didn't exactly run in a straight line from Richmond, Virginia to Miami, Florida.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mucable You're right, the SAL isn't very straight from Miami to Richmond, but it did have the longest stretch of tangent mainline in North America. Hint: it's in Florida!
QUOTE: Originally posted by martin.knoepfel there is an air-line in the Chicago area. doesn't this simply mean "elevated"? it is a conventional railroad, not part of the subway-system.
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