[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 1994)]
[Notices]
[Pages 780-781]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-288]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32424]

 

Twin Cities & Western Railroad Co.; Acquisition of Trackage 
Rights--Chicago and North Western Transportation Co.; Notice of 
Exemption

    The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company (CNW) has 
agreed to grant overhead trackage rights to Twin Cities & Western 
Railroad Company (TCW) between the connection with the Soo Line 
Railroad Company (Soo) at MP-16.2, St. Louis Park and the CNW 
connection with Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) at MP-13.7 in 
Minneapolis, MN. The trackage rights were to become effective on or 
after January 1, 1994.
    The purpose of the trackage rights is to provide TCW with an 
alternative route to Soo's St. Paul Yard. This notice is related to a 
notice filed in Finance Docket No. 32423, Twin Cities & Western 
Railroad Company--Acquisition of Trackage Rights--Burlington Northern 
Railroad Company, in which BN is granting TCW, overhead trackage rights 
over its line extending from Lyndale Junction in Minneapolis/St. Paul.
    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,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-288 Filed 1-5-94; 8:45 am]
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