(The following appeared on the Portland Tribune website on April 5, 2011.)
PORTLAND, Ore. — Attorneys for Union Pacific Railroad asked a federal judge on Monday to lift a 55-year-old court injunction that company officials say stands in the way of a $75 million modernization plan for Portland’s Brooklyn Intermodal Rail Yard.
Restrictions imposed by the Oct. 24, 1956, injunction say the company cannot assemble trains on sidetracks beyond 1,373 feet south of the yard, and block the railway company from assembling more than a dozen long trains each month between midnight and 6 a.m. on track up to 2,073 feet south of Reedway Street adjacent to the Eastmoreland Golf Course.
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