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Fed Court: Vermont Railroad prevails over town trying to shut down salt transloading
Author: Graham Buxton
Date: 12-12-2017 - 13:33

Quote:
VTDigger.com
BURLINGTON VT — A federal judge has ruled Shelburne can’t enforce a town ordinance that likely would have shut down Vermont Railway’s operation that takes road salt from trains and loads it onto trucks for distribution around Vermont.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions issued an order last week that permanently blocks enforcement. The ordinance would have allowed Shelburne to levy daily fines for road salt storage violations, issue “health orders” directing the railroad to remove the road salt, and limit the amount of fuel and other commodities the railroad can store temporarily.

The order is likely to end a two-year legal battle between Shelburne and Vermont Railway as well as its partner in the enterprise, Barrett Trucking. The companies had worked to develop the project to replace a salt “transloading” operation in Burlington that had closed. Town officials and residents opposed to the project failed in several attempts to thwart it.

Shelburne spent $451,000 on attorneys in the matter since January 2016, according to Town Manager Joe Colangelo. The town’s legal budget for that period was $92,000.

Read the rest here:
[vtdigger.org]

Yes, I know that AP Board readers are only marginally interested in a relatively small transload operation on the other side of the country, but this issue of towns trying to regulate railroad operations is not limited to Vermont.

For instance, Spokane Washington ... [www.spokesman.com]

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  Fed Court: Vermont Railroad prevails over town trying to shut down salt transloading Graham Buxton 12-12-2017 - 13:33
  Re: Fed Court: Vermont Railroad prevails over town trying to shut down salt transloading Maga 12-12-2017 - 14:38
  Re: Fed Court: Vermont Railroad prevails over town trying to shut down salt transloading Bill Maltby 12-12-2017 - 15:23
  Re: Fed Court: Vermont Railroad prevails over town trying to shut down salt transloading George Andrews 12-12-2017 - 19:06


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