[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 14184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7524]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33359]
Wisconsin Central Ltd.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Tomahawk
Railway, Limited Partnership
Tomahawk Railway, Limited Partnership (TRL) has agreed to grant
Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL) non-exclusive overhead trackage rights
1 over a 0.40-mile portion of TRL's line of railroad between WCL
milepost 133.09 and WCL milepost 133.49 in Tomahawk, WI. The proposed
trackage rights will connect with an existing WCL rail line at milepost
133.09 and, at milepost 133.49, with a TRL rail line which WCL seeks to
acquire.2 The proposed trackage rights will allow WCL to continue
to operate over that portion of TRL's line not being acquired by WCL
and, will provide an overhead route between WCL's line to Ashland, WI,
and the remainder of WCL's system.
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\1\ The proposed trackage rights will be a substitute for the
existing trackage rights over TRL's rail line which were acquired by
WCL's predecessor, Soo Line Railroad Company (Soo), in 1986 and
assigned to WCL in 1987. See Soo Line Railroad Company--Trackage
Rights--Marinette, Tomahawk and Western Railroad Company, Finance
Docket No. 30839 (ICC served June 26, 1986); Wisconsin Central
Ltd.--Exemption Acquisition and Operation--Certain Lines of Soo Line
Railroad Company, Finance Docket No. 31102 (ICC served July 28,
1988) Appendix B, Part 2.
\2\ WCL concurrently filed a petition for exemption under 49
U.S.C. 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C.
10902, to permit WCL to acquire from TRL 4.93 miles of rail line
between milepost 133.49 at Tomahawk and milepost 138.42 at Bradley,
WI (the Bradley Line). The petition has been docketed as Wisconsin
Central Ltd.--Acquisition Exemption--Tomahawk Railway, Limited
Partnership, STB Finance Docket No. 33358. Together with a short
segment of trackage between WCL milepost 133.49 and WCL milepost
133.09 in Tomahawk (the Tomahawk Segment), which TRL will continue
to own, the Bradley Line will provide a connection between an east-
west WCL line at Bradley previously owned by Soo and a north-south
WCL line terminating at Tomahawk previously owned by the Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company.
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The transaction is scheduled to be consummated on approval and
consummation of the transaction in STB Finance Docket No. 33358, but in
any event no sooner than March 12, 1997, the effective date of this
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 it 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. 33359, must be filed with the Surface Transportation
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, Room 713, 1925 K
Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a copy of each
pleading must be served on Thomas J. Litwiler, Two Prudential Plaza,
45th Floor, 180 North Stetson Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601.
Decided: March 19, 1997.
By the Board, Joseph H. Dettmar, Acting Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-7524 Filed 3-24-97; 8:45 am]
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