(Source: Trains.com, November 14, 2024)
The Surface Transportation Board has taken Union Pacific to task for an ongoing lack of cooperation in a new decision regarding an issue with the railroad’s effort to construct a 6-mile rail line in Arizona’s Maricopa and Pinal counties. The primary matter concerns UP’s request for an exemption for construction of the Pecos Industrial Rail Access Train Extension, or PIRATE, to connect UP’s Phoenix Subdivision main line to industrial properties near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. But the ruling released today (Thursday, Nov. 14) orders the railroad to rectify deficiencies in submissions as the board looks into whether the railroad engaged in “anticipatory demolition” of historic properties along the proposed route, resulting in damage to archaeological resources.
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