per year. The reductions of number of operations reported at many of the 

 airports between 1972 and 1979 are believed by the Florida Department of 

 Transportation (DOT) to be caused by increasing fuel costs. 



Table 11. The number of aircraft operations in 1972 and 1979, and projected 

 to 1981 and 1991 among general airports in Northwest Florida (adapted from 

 Florida Department of Transportation 1981). 



RAIL TRANSPORTATION 



RAIL SYSTEMS 



The railroads serving Northwest Florida are freight lines. Two are Class 

 1 (net annual operation revenues of $10,000,000 or more: the Louisville and 

 Nashville Railroad Co., and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Co.), and two 

 are Class II (Apalachicola Northern Railroad Co. and Atlanta and St. Andrews 

 Bay Railroad Co.). Class II includes terminal companies, switching companies, 

 and the short lines (see Figure 2). Few details are available for analysis of 

 railroad operations in Northwest Florida and no projections have been made for 

 the future. Descriptions of the four railroads are given in the following 

 subsections. 



CLASS I RAILROADS 



The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, part of the Family Lines System, 

 is headquartered in Jacksonville. It is the major railroad in Northwest Flor- 

 ida and serves the Port of Pensacola. The railroad has 3,100 route miles in 

 Florida and connects with all other lines operating in the State. In 1979, 

 approximately 400,000 rail freight cars were moved by the Louisville and 

 Nashville Railroad on Pensacola trackage. Of these, about 21,000 were inter- 

 changed with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad which also serves the Port 

 of Pensacola. The remainder of the traffic (approximately 350,000 cars 

 annually) were through the line's Jacksonville to New Orleans link. Total 



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