According to reports from Wednesday’s meeting, the previous owners of Arkansas Midland Railroad did not get approval from Union Pacific to install the crossing of the intermodal access road, before authorizing the intermodal authority to build the road across the track at its current location and where to install the switch.
Railroad officials notified the contractor of the problem as the road was reaching the railroad right-of-way. That was the first time anyone local knew this was an issue.
The specific problem is that according to Union Pacific, the railroad track swith and the road crossing must be a specific distance away from each other.
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