While it appears this topic got off topic with a discussion of gasoline prices, allow me to try to return it to topic.
I know we discussed this point earlier such as at Katrina + 1; now we are at Katrina +16 and I again ask.
"Any thoughts regarding whether CSX will restore the L&N Gulf Coast Line?"
It would appear a reasonable alternative to protect their traffic could be to use North South routings from both Mobile (GM&O) and Pascagoula (Miss Export) and to reroute through traffic over the ACL to Selma where it could be interchanged to the IC for forwarding to New Orleans. Other than building materials for a new casino, I wonder where else there is on line traffic other than at Mobile (deepwater port) and Pascagoula (Ingalls shipyard). It seems like CSX can't make it through a year without some major disruption on that line, and I am just wondering if someone @ 500 Water is questioning the wisdom of rebuilding the line as a through route.
I gladly defer to knowledge from Members such as Mr. Nip; I really know little about the area other than what I've observed from several L&N and Amtrak rides over the line (my Air Force specialty trained at Keesler, but I was never sent there - just as well; the place "back when I was in' was known to "reek of chicken *hit"). Oh and I guess I know that in the movie
"This Property is Condemmed', there is footage shot of a steam locomotive X-ing the Pass Christian viaduct.