[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 16 (Monday, January 26, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1755]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33542]
CSX Transportation, Inc.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Consolidated
Rail Corporation and Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), as owner, and Indiana
Harbor Belt Railroad Company (IHB), as operator,1 have
agreed to grant overhead trackage rights to CSX Transportation, Inc.
(CSXT), to operate its trains, locomotives, cars, and equipment with
CSXT's own crews over Conrail's Kankakee Line between Michigan Avenue,
Indiana Harbor, IN, milepost 0.0, and Osborn, IN, milepost
4.8, at the connection between Conrail's Kankakee Line and
the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, a total distance of
approximately 4.8 miles. The trackage rights are restricted to bridge
traffic only between the termini of the trackage rights for trainload
movements of finished automobiles and associated empty equipment to and
from the Ford Mixing Center in the Calumet Yard area.
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\1\ Pursuant to a trackage rights agreement, dated April 9,
1906, Conrail granted trackage rights to IHB to operate over
portions of its railroad, including that portion of the Kankakee
Line which CSXT will acquire upon the effective date of this
exemption. Since IHB acts as agent on behalf of Conrail in the
performance of supervision, control and maintenance of this line of
railroad, IHB is included as a party to the trackage rights
agreement.
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The transaction is expected to be consummated on January 19, 1998,
the effective date of the exemption.
As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the
trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk
and Western Ry. Co.--Trackage Rights--BN, 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as
modified in Mendocino Coast Ry., Inc.--Lease and Operate, 360 I.C.C.
653 (1980).
This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). If the notice
contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab
initio. Petitions to revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may
be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not
automatically stay the transaction.
An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB
Finance Docket No. 33542, must be filed with the Surface Transportation
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 K Street, N.W.,
Washington, DC 20423-0001 and served on: Charles M. Rosenberger, Senior
Counsel, CSX Transportation, Inc., 500 Water Street, J-150,
Jacksonville, FL 32202.
Decided: January 16, 1998.
By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1755 Filed 1-23-98; 8:45 am]
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