[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 91 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25248-25249]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11665]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 31960 (Sub-No. 2)]
Wisconsin Central Ltd.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Indiana Harbor
Belt Railroad Company
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company (IHB) has agreed to grant
additional overhead trackage rights to Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL)
over 6.41 miles of rail line between IHB's connection with the Norfolk
Southern Railway Company (NS) at Chicago Ridge, IL, and its connection
with the Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (Grand Trunk) in Blue
Island, IL. These trackage rights are in addition to trackage rights
previously granted in a 1991 Agreement between the parties\1\
[[Page 25249]] and a 1994 Modification Agreement.\2\ The 1991 Agreement
granted overhead trackage rights totaling 13.53 miles between IHB's
connection with WCL at Norpaul Yard, Franklin Park, IL, and its
connection with the Belt Railway Company of Chicago (Belt) at Elsdon,
in Chicago, IL, as well as between IHB's connections with the Belt and
Consolidated Rail Corporation at Elsdon. The 1994 Modification
Agreement granted overhead trackage rights totaling 3.86 miles between
IHB's connection with the Belt at Bedford Park, IL, and its connection
with the NS at Chicago Ridge. The trackage rights granted to WCL by IHB
in this and the two previous matters total 23.8 miles. The proposed
transaction will secure for WCL a more efficient route via the IHB to
connect with the Grand Trunk at Blue Island. The trackage rights were
to become effective on or after April 28, 1995.
\1\The existing trackage rights were acquired by WCL under a
notice of exemption in Wisconsin Central Ltd.--Trackage Rights
Exemption--Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company, Finance Docket No.
31960 (ICC served Nov. 4, 1991).
\2\Wisconsin Central Ltd.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Indiana
Harbor Belt Railroad Company, Finance Docket No. 31960 (Sub-No. 1)
(ICC served May 10, 1994).
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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. 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
Commission and served on: Janet H. Gilbert, 6250 North River Road,
Suite 9000, Rosemont, IL 60018.
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).
Decided: May 5, 1995.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-11665 Filed 5-10-95; 8:45 am]
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