Your subject line is misleading, since this is a proposed new rail line where there is none and will take land currently owned and used by those of a small community.

Maybe you need to get off your high horse and take a closer examination of the facts here. It appears that there were other proposed routes but those were bought off by money.

If a railroad can spend millions or billions of dollars to vacate current tracks running through a town to go around the town, they can come up with an alternate route to minimize the impact to local land owners.