WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group representing development agencies in Kentucky and Tennessee has filed a request with the Surface Transportation Board that would allow it to build a new 12-mile rail line connecting two existing short lines to better serve a Kentucky river port.
Ken Tenn Regional Rail Partners, a non-profit corporation created by the Fulton County Industrial Development Authority of Kentucky and the Industrial Development Board of Union City, Tenn., have requested an exemption from the STB’s prior approval requirements in order to build the 12.17-mile line, which would connect from the TennKen Railroad near the Hickman (Ky.) Riverport to the Union City Terminal Railroad in Tennessee. Two segments of the line, totaling 3.47 miles, would use abandoned rights-of-way.
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