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[FR Doc No: 94-32216]
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[Federal Register: December 30, 1994]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 31504 (Sub-No. 1) and Finance Docket No. 31504
(Sub-No. 2)]
Central of Georgia Railroad Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--
Over Lines of Norfolk Southern Railway Company and The Cincinnati, New
Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company and Norfolk Southern Railway
Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Over Lines of Central of Georgia
Railroad Company
Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) has agreed to grant local
and overhead trackage rights to its subsidiary, Central of Georgia
Railroad Company (CGA), over the following lines: (1) Between Ooltewah,
TN (milepost 15.2-H) and Atlanta, GA (milepost 148.2-H at Inman Yard) a
distance of approximately 133.0 miles; (2) between Cleveland, TN
(milepost 0.0-I), and Cohutta, GA (milepost 14.5-I), a distance of
approximately 14.5 miles; and (3) between Tasso, TN (milepost 208.0-A)
and Chattanooga, TN (milepost 240.0-A at deButts Yard, TN), a distance
of approximately 32.0 miles, for a total of approximately 179.5
miles.1
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\1\CGA has been granted overhead trackage rights over 106.5
miles of NSR lines: between milepost 15.2-H at Ooltewah, TN, and
milepost 78.1-H near Rome (Fox), GA, a distance of 62.9 miles;
between milepost 14.5-I at Cohutta, GA, and milepost 0.0-I at
Cleveland, TN, a distance of 14.5 miles; and between milepost 208.9-
A near Tasso, TN, and milepost 238.0-A at Citico Junction, TN, a
distance of 29.1 miles. See Central of Georgia Railroad Company--
Trackage Rights Exemption--Southern Railway Company and The
Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company, Finance
Docket No. 31504 (ICC served Oct. 18, 1990) (Central of Georgia).
Thus, portions of existing trackage rights are being expanded from
overhead rights only to include both local and overhead trackage
rights.
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The Cleveland-Cohutta line joins the Ooltewah-Atlanta line at
Cohutta (milepost 14.5-I on the Cleveland-Cohutta line, which is also
milepost 26.7-H on the Ooltewah-Atlanta line). The Tasso-Chattanooga
line joins the Cleveland-Cohutta line at Cleveland (milepost 212.7A on
the Tasso-Chattanooga line, which is also milepost 0.0-I on the
Cleveland-Cohutta line). The Tasso-Chattanooga line also joins the
Ooltewah-Atlanta line at Ooltewah (milepost 226.6-A on the Tasso-
Chattanooga line, which is milepost 15.2-H on the Ooltewah-Atlanta
line). Thus, the 179.5 miles over NSR are contiguous.
The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company
(CNOTP), a subsidiary of NSR, has agreed to grant local and overhead
trackage rights to CGA over approximately 6.4 miles of NSR's line of
railroad between Chattanooga (milepost 338.0, 23rd Street Interlocking
Tower) and Citico Junction, TN (milepost 332.4).2 Citico Junction
is at milepost 238.2-A on the NSR Tasso-Chattanooga line. Thus this
line of railroad is contiguous with the 179.5 NSR miles.
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\2\CGA has been granted overhead trackage rights over this same
CNOTP line in Central of Georgia, supra.
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The CGA has agreed to grant local and overhead trackage rights to
NSR, over approximately 98.4 miles of rail line between Green, GA
(milepost C-61.4), and Senoia, GA (milepost C-70.0) and between Wansley
Junction, GA (milepost WA-.0) and Wansley, GA (milepost WA-7.0). The
Wansley Junction-Wansley line originates from the Green-Senoia line at
milepost C-302.0. The Green-Senoia line connects with NSR's Ooltewah-
Atlanta line (over which CGA will receive the trackage rights indicated
above) at Green (milepost 92.0- on the Ooltewah-Atlanta line, which is
milepost C-361.4 on the Green-Senoia line).
As previously stated, the trackage rights will expand existing
trackage rights and are related to each other because they will allow
two carriers within a corporate family, NSR and CGR, the ability to
provide direct single-carrier local service over the same lines of
railroad of these affiliated carriers in southeastern Tennessee and
northwestern Georgia.
The exemption became effective on December 19, 1994. Operations
under the trackage rights are scheduled to begin on or after December
30, 1994.
This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3) and (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: James R. Paschall, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Three
Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-191.
As a condition to use of this exemption, any employees adversely
affected by the trackage rights will be protected pursuant to 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 22, 1994.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-32216 Filed 12-29-94; 8:45 am]
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