[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 225 (Wednesday, November 23, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-28905]


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[Federal Register: November 23, 1994]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32609]

 

Chesapeake Railroad Company--Modified Rail Certificate

    On October 28, 1994, Chesapeake Railroad Company (CHRR) filed a 
notice for a modified certificate of public convenience and necessity 
under 49 CFR 1150, Subpart C, to operate a line of railroad between 
milepost 00.0 at Clayton, DE, and milepost 45.3 at Easton, MD, and a 
connecting branch line between milepost 00.0 at Queen Anne, MD, and 
milepost 8.8 at Denton, MD, a total distance of approximately 54.1 
miles.
    The lines were owned by the Trustees of the former Penn Central 
Transportation Company. The Trustees abandoned the lines in 1976 
pursuant to Section 304 of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 
1973.1 On January 8, 1982, the Trustees sold the lines to the 
State of Maryland Department of Transportation, Mass Transit 
Administration (MTA). MTA has entered into an operating agreement with 
CHRR.
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    \1\Pub. L. 93-236, 87 Stat. 1008, codified at 45 U.S.C. 744.
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    The Commission will serve a copy of this notice on the Association 
of American Railroads (Car Service Division), as agent of all railroads 
subscribing to the car-service and car-hire agreement, and on the 
American Short Line Railroad Association.

    Decided: November 16, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-28905 Filed 11-22-94; 8:45 am]
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