[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: 94-14636]
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[Federal Register: June 15, 1994]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 29009 (Sub-No. 6)]1
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\1\ This notice adds operations by Norfolk Southern Railway
Company (NSR), the parent of Norfolk and Western Railway Company
(NW), to an existing trackage rights agreement between NW and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (C&O), the predecessor of CSX
Transportation, Inc., that was the subject of an application in
Norfolk and Western Railway Company Trackage Rights over the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company between Glasgow and Lynchburg,
in Rockbridge, Amherst and Bedford Counties, VA, and in the City of
Lynchburg, VA, Finance Docket No. 29009 (Sub-No. 6), that was
subsequently consolidated in a control proceeding and approved in
CSX Corp.-Control-Chessie and Seaboard C.L.I., 363 I.C.C. 521
(1980). This amended notice is issued under the same docket number
assigned to the original NW-C&O trackage rights notice of exemption.
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Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Amended Trackage Rights
Exemption--CSX Transportation, Inc.
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has agreed to grant approximately
28.59 miles of overhead trackage rights to Norfolk Southern Railway
Company (NSR) 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 at
Balcony Falls, VA, and milepost 147.38 at Lynchburg, VA, in Rockbridge,
Amherst, and Bedford Counties, and the City of Lynchburg, VA.2 The
trackage rights will facilitate more economic and efficient operations
by providing an alternative route for NSR traffic to Hagerstown, MD,
particularly during peak periods. NSR's existing route to Hagerstown
includes a single-track branch line between Manassas and Front Royal,
VA. The proposed consummation date is on or after June 15, 1994.
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\2\ In a notice of exemption concurrently filed on May 26, 1994,
in Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Over
Norfolk and Western Railway Company--Between Glasgow, VA, and Front
Royal, VA, in Finance Docket No. 32511, NW has agreed to grant to
its parent, NSR, overhead trackage rights over approximately 134.1
miles of NW's line of railroad between milepost H-63, near Front
Royal, VA, and milepost H-197.1 near Glasgow, VA. This will complete
NSR's route to Hagerstown, MD.
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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 stay
the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the Commission and served
on: James R. Paschall, Three Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-2191.
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: June 10, 1994.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-14636 Filed 6-14-94; 8:45 am]
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