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A daytime train via Lynchburg is not quite feasible at a running time of about 18.5 hours.
One via RGH is not quite feasible either at present with an estimated running time of 19+ hours. It might become borderline feasible after the PTB - RGH direct route is rebuilt, which should reduce the running time to around 17 hours, which is still a bit too much.
For comparison Palmetto NYP-SAV is 15.5 hr
Meteor NYP-JAX is 18hrs, which was tried for the Palmetto for a while but was discontinued.
Still, Atlanta being a much bigger potential source/destination of riders an 18.5 hour could be made to work as a stretch with a 5am departure from each end roughly speaking with arrival 11:30pm. The crew turns at Atlanta would be a bit ugly though, but maybe something could be made efficiently workable in conjunction with the Crescent.
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