Port backs local group if state pulls tracks

After meeting with four landowners at their regular session last Thurs-day, Port of Whitman commissioners decided to support an abandonment policy in the event the railroad tracks from the now idle Colfax-Pullman line are removed.

The port authorized Chairman Tom Kammerzell to urge the state’s PCC rail authority to abandon the line instead of following a policy of banking the rail property for possible use at some point in the future.

The state is now awaiting a report on strategic development of the rail system before deciding on the fate of the railroad line.

Kammerzell serves as the port’s...