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Train blockage concerns brought to city council
The Rugby City Council were presented with concerns from a north Rugby resident regarding trains blocking the main street intersection. The issue was not on the agenda, and brought forward near the conclusion of the meeting by Dave Bednarz, who is also a county commissioner representing District #3. Bednarz said the issue has been bothering him for around four years, and in the last week the intersection has been blocked by trains for up to 36 hours at a time. Bednarz felt Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway was misusing the city of Rugby as a parking lot to allow other trains to ...