[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] [[Page Unknown]] [Federal Register: January 6, 1994] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 7035-01-P