[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 6616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3385]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33313]
The Kansas City Southern Railway Company--Trackage Rights
Exemption--Burlington Northern Railroad Company
Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) 1 has agreed to
grant overhead trackage rights to The Kansas City Southern Railway
Company (KCS) over a total of approximately 25.9 miles of rail line
over the portion of BN's Birmingham subdivision between the BN-KCS
connection at New Albany, MS (line segment 1001--BN milepost 562.3),
and the BN-KCS connection at Tupelo, MS (BN milepost 588.2). The
transaction was expected to be consummated on February 5, 1997.
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\1\ On December 31, 1996, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway Company was merged with and into BN, with the surviving
corporation named The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway
Company; any reference to BN in this order shall be understood to
refer to the new entity.
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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 stay
the transaction.
An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB
Finance Docket No. 33313, must be filed with the Surface Transportation
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Branch, 1201 Constitution
Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20423 and served on: William J. Wochner,
Esq., The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 114 West Eleventh
Street, Kansas City, MO 64105.
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).
Decided: February 5, 1997.
By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-3385 Filed 2-11-97; 8:45 am]
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