[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-14635]
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[Federal Register: June 15, 1994]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32511]
Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (NW) has agreed to grant to its
corporate parent, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR), overhead
trackage rights over approximately 134.1 miles of rail line, between
NW's milepost H-63, near Front Royal, VA, and milepost H-197.1, near
Glasgow, VA.1 NSR's trackage rights will permit direct movement of
NSR trains via Lynchburg and Glasgow to and from the interchange with
Conrail at Hagerstown, MD. The trackage rights are to become effective
on June 15, 1994.
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\1\By notice of exemption in Norfolk Southern Railway Company--
Trackage Rights Exemption--Norfolk and Western Railway Company,
Finance Docket No. 31283 (Sub-No. 1) (ICC served June 17, 1991), NW
was granted overhead trackage rights over a 63-mile line of railroad
between milepost H-63, at Front Royal, VA, and milepost H-0, at
Hagerstown, MD. In a concurrently filed notice of exemption in
Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Amended Trackage Rights
Exemption--CSX Transportation, Inc., Finance Docket No. 29009 (Sub-
No. 6), NSR has applied for overhead trackage rights over
approximately 28.59 miles of CSX Transportation, Inc.'s (CSXT) rail
line between milepost 1.08 at Glasgow, VA, via the Glasgow
Industrial Track and milepost 174.89 at Balcony Falls, VA, a point
of connection with CSXT's main line and between milepost 174.89 and
milepost 147.38 at Lynchburg, VA. The trackage rights in this notice
will connect these two lines and complete NSR's alternate route to
Hagerstown. NSR's existing route to Hagerstown includes a single-
track branch line between Manassas and Front Royal, VA.
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This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7).2 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.
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\2\NW and NSR indicate that this transaction is within a
corporate family and, thus, also exempt under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3).
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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: June 10, 1994.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-14635 Filed 6-14-94; 8:45 am]
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