Stark County - Dickinson - Approves New Rail Transloading Facility

Updates

January 17, 2014: post with link to press release (PDF) providing more details. 

December 4, 2013: The Dickinson Press is reporting:

Stark County commissioners on Tuesday gave final approval to rezone a 686-acre plot for a rail terminal 5 miles west of South Heart, but not without a lengthy list of stipulations.

There was no reason to post this; the story / original post remains unchanged. However, the explanations why the county commissioners flip-flopped add a bit of hilarity to today's news.  One commissioner suggested that he knew how to run the railroad better than BSNF and that's why he originally denied the request. But, now, after two or three weeks of "RAILROAD 101" he understands how the railroad works. It turns out that the train occasionally has to stop to load and unload materiel. I cannot make this stuff up.
 

Original Post

The Dickinson Press is reporting:

On the second go around, Stark County Planning and Zoning Board members approved a 686-acre agricultural-to-industrial rezoning request on Wednesday from developers seeking to build a rail terminal 5 miles west of South Heart.

Developers want to create a transloading facility to receive loads of fracking proppants, aggregate, oilfield equipment, agricultural products and building products.

It doesn't really matter, and it doesn't add anything to the story, but I always enjoy trying to figure out where these proposed sites will be. 

It appears that based on the description in the article, the proposed site will be near the "A" in the graphics below: