[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 1994)]
[Notices]
[Page 780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-286]
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[Federal Register: January 6, 1994]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32423]
Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company--Acquisition of Trackage
Rights--Burlington Northern Railroad Co.; Exemption
The Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) has agreed to grant
overhead trackage rights to Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company
(TCW) extending from MP-13.27 at Lyndale Junction to MP-9.5 (East leg
of Wye) and MP-10.08 (West leg of Wye) at Minneapolis Junction in
Minneapolis, MN, from MP-11.6, the former Shoreham Yard switch in
Minneapolis, to MP-429.7 in St. Paul, MN. The trackage rights were to
become effective on or after January 1, 1994.
The principal purpose of the trackage rights is to provide TCW with
an alternative route to Soo Line Railroad Company's (Soo) St. Paul
Yard. This notice is related to a notice filed in Finance Docket No.
32424, Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company--Acquisition of Trackage
Rights--Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, in which CNW
is granting TCW overhead trackage rights from its connection with Soo's
Merriam Park line in St. Louis Park to Lyndale Junction.
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 stay
the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the Commission and served
on: Charles H. Clay, Head, Hempel, Seifert & Vander Weide, One
Financial Plaza, suite 2110, 120 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN
55402.
As a condition to the use of this exemption, any employees 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).
Decided: December 28, 1993.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-286 Filed 1-5-94; 8:45 am]
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