The Kyle city council approved spending $270,000 on a preliminary engineering study to remove a railroad switch station, or rail siding, from the downtown sector.

The scope of the study is to provide the city with an understanding of how much work will be required to move the siding from downtown Kyle. 

A railroad siding is a side rail that allows one train to stop while letting another train go by. 

Whenever this operation happens, however, trains block traffic on Center Street for anywhere from...