Tractor-trailers will occassionally get stuck under the railroad bridge on Sackett Point Road, so CSX, North Haven and DOT came together to prevent it.
The case pits a politically connected Georgia railroad against mostly Black property owners, some whose families have ties to their land dating to slavery.
A potentially precedent-setting legal battle aims to decide whether a railroad can use eminent domain in one of Georgia’s poorest counties to build a rail spur to serve private businesses.