FILE - Sparta residents attend a Georgia Public Service Commission hearing on whether a railroad company can use eminent domain to condemn property in their community, in Atlanta, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP ...

ATLANTA — A hearing on Tuesday raised questions about a railroad company’s use of eminent domain in one of Georgia’s poorest areas. After three days of hearings in November, an officer for the Georgia ...

A judge ruled a railroad can use eminent domain in one of Georgia’s poorest counties to build a spur to serve private businesses, a decision some residents in the railway’s path vowed to appeal.

Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (NYSE: GWR) bought Atlantic Western Transportation Inc., parent company of Heart of Georgia Railroad Inc., for an undisclosed amount. Genesee & Wyoming Inc. Feb 8, 2017 Genesee ...

A retired Georgia couple is battling a railroad company that wants their land. The Garretts' family has owned the land since the 1800s and they aren't prepared to back down. The couple is part of a ...

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. The case ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Georgia Central Railway, L.P. (GC) and Heart of Georgia Railroad, Inc. (HOG), subsidiaries of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W), today filed a petition with the Federal ...

LYONS, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Georgia Central Railway, a 211-mile short line freight railroad operating between Macon and Savannah, thanks all those that facilitated the federal Consolidated Rail ...

Presiding Judge Craig L Schwall of Fulton County Superior Court, Atlanta. Courtesy photo A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track, ...

ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Georgia railroad can buy land against the will of property owners to build a track, rebuffing a challenge that a libertarian group hoped could make it harder to ...