[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 4 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 413-414]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-153]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32842]
Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Norfolk and Western Railway
Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Burlington Northern Railroad
Company
Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) has agreed to grant
overhead trackage rights to Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) and
Norfolk Western Railway Company (NW), collectively referred to as NS,
over a 112-mile line of railroad between milepost 10.2, at
Jacksonville, IL, and milepost 122.3, at Centralia, IL. NW is a class I
railroad controlled through stock ownership by NSR. NSR and its rail
carrier subsidiaries operate a rail system extending throughout the
Southeast and Midwest.
NS contends that the trackage rights will enable it to have more
efficient routing of its trains. Currently, NS receives coal trains in
interchange from The Union Pacific Railroad Company at E. St. Louis,
IL. These trains then move over NS trackage from E. St. Louis for
delivery at Coffeen, IL. The BN trackage rights will allow NS to
receive coal trains in interchange at Worden, IL, and move to Coffeen
via NS to Litchfield, then over BN's trackage rights between
Litchfield/Winston and Sorento and NS Sorento to Coffeen. NS also
claims that the trackage rights will enable it to rationalize the E.
St. Louis-Sorento portion of its E. St. Louis-Coffeen line. The
trackage rights will become effective on June 1, 1996.
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. 10505(d) may
be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not
automatically stay the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the
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Commission 1 and served on: Robert J. Cooney, Norfolk Southern
Corporation, 3 Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-2191.
\1\ Legislation to sunset the Commission on December 31, 1995,
and transfer remaining functions is currently under consideration.
Until further notice, parties submitting pleadings should continue
to use the current name and address.
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As a condition to the use of this exemption, any employees
adversely affected by the trackage rights will be protected under
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).
Dated: December 29, 1995.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-153 Filed 1-4-96; 8:45 am]
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