[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 1994)]
[Notices]
[Page 780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-286]


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[Federal Register: January 6, 1994]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32423]

 

Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company--Acquisition of Trackage 
Rights--Burlington Northern Railroad Co.; Exemption

    The Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) has agreed to grant 
overhead trackage rights to Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company 
(TCW) extending from MP-13.27 at Lyndale Junction to MP-9.5 (East leg 
of Wye) and MP-10.08 (West leg of Wye) at Minneapolis Junction in 
Minneapolis, MN, from MP-11.6, the former Shoreham Yard switch in 
Minneapolis, to MP-429.7 in St. Paul, MN. The trackage rights were to 
become effective on or after January 1, 1994.
    The principal purpose of the trackage rights is to provide TCW with 
an alternative route to Soo Line Railroad Company's (Soo) St. Paul 
Yard. This notice is related to a notice filed in Finance Docket No. 
32424, Twin Cities & Western Railroad Company--Acquisition of Trackage 
Rights--Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, in which CNW 
is granting TCW overhead trackage rights from its connection with Soo's 
Merriam Park line in St. Louis Park to Lyndale Junction.
    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: Charles H. Clay, Head, Hempel, Seifert & Vander Weide, One 
Financial Plaza, suite 2110, 120 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, MN 
55402.
    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: December 28, 1993.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-286 Filed 1-5-94; 8:45 am]
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