Updated at 5:25 p.m. Thursday
Norfolk Southern is canceling its plans to build a rail terminal in northwest Atlanta on a site that had been the location of forced labor around the turn of the 20th century.
The company had announced it was pausing the project last weekend after the city of Atlanta asked a federal agency to intervene and stop the project.
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