BNSF freight train. (Photo by sadams7/pixabay)

Contra Costa County and Richmond officials this week united in opposition to a plan that would reactivate a section of old railroad that goes through the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline Park.

The tracks are owned by BNSF Railway Company, a Berkshire Hathaway company owned by Warren Buffett. It used to serve Richmond’s Terminal 1 and Ferry Point, before the surrounding real estate was purchased and converted into a public park.

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