"My guess would be because the USS Kidd, being a seagoing vessel, decided it would be easier to travel over the water in the Southern Corridor than over the land in the Northern corridor..
Smart guy that captain is.."
:) true ------ any more like him and they might win a war one day :)
there is a fair bit of water in the northern corridor before he had to fit wheels on the ship though - but, you might be right - there is more water to the south.