sentences:  The "Southerner" shared much of the same route as the "Crescent," the Southern's other major New York-New Orleans sleeper, but diverged between Atlanta and New Orleans.While the "Crescent" took a more direct coastal route via Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama, the "Southerner" took an inland route through Birmingham.The "Southerner" also traveled exclusively on Southern trackage south of Washington, while the "Crescent" used Atlanta and West Point Railroad, Western Railway of Alabama and Louisville and Nashville Railroad trackage south of Atlanta.