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The Story:  According to the Kansas City Business Journal, BNSF Railway is slowing its efforts to build its intermodal freight hub in Gardner.  This freight hub is to be the centerpiece for the Kansas City Logistics Park – a 1,000 acre, $735 million industrial park.  Without the intermodal hub, the industrial park project is effectively dead in the water.  The projects developer, The Allen Group, had apparently been notified by BNSF at the same time as the city, county and Corps of Engineers.  BNSF maintains that progress has not stopped and they are still pursuing Corps approval for some wetlands issues.  However, the company is letting the economy dictate when the major construction will begin and end.