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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32437]

 

The A&G Railroad, L.L.C.; Acquisition and Operation Exemption; 
Rail Lines of Abbeville & Grimes Railway Company

    The A&G Railroad, L.L.C. (A&G) has filed a notice of exemption to 
acquire from Abbeville & Grimes Railway Company (Abbeville) and to 
operate approximately 27 rail miles in Alabama, between Abbeville and 
Grimes, together with incidental trackage rights over 7 miles of CSX 
Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) lines between Grimes and Dothan, AL, and 
substantially all of the other railroad operating assets of Abbeville. 
The proposed transaction is expected to be consummated promptly upon 
the effectiveness of the exemption.
    A&G is 100% owned and controlled by Rail Partners, L.P. (Partners), 
a Delaware limited partnership, and Panama City Beach Office Park, Ltd. 
(Office Park), a Florida limited partnership (collectively, Owners). 
Neither Partners nor Office Park is a carrier, and Office Park does not 
currently control a carrier. However, Partners is jointly owned and 
controlled by Mr. K. Earl Durden (Durden), Green Bay Packaging, Inc. 
(GBP), and Rail Management and Consulting Corporation (RMCC), and with 
them jointly owns and controls several class III rail carriers. Office 
Park is jointly owned and controlled by Partners and RMCC, and is thus 
under common control with those class III carriers.
    None of the class III carriers currently affiliated with Owners 
connects with A&G. However, Durden, GBP, Partners, and RMCC are, by a 
contemporaneously filed notice of exemption in Finance Docket No. 
32436, Rail Management and Consulting Corporation, Green Bay Packaging, 
Inc., K. Earl Durden, and Rail Partners, L.P.--Continuance in Control 
Exemption--the Bay Line Railroad, L.L.C., seeking to continue in 
control of another company they own, the Bay Line Railroad, L.L.C. (Bay 
Line), upon Bay Line's becoming a carrier by purchase and operation of 
the lines of the Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Inc. (ASAB), a 
transaction subject to an exemption notice filed in Finance Docket No. 
32435, The Bay Line Railroad, L.L.C.--Acquisition and Operation 
Exemption--Rail Lines of Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad Company. 
Because A&G and Bay Line connect by means of incidental trackage rights 
over CSXT, between Grimes and Dothan, the ownership of A&G will be 
placed in an independent voting trust prior to closing to prevent 
Durden, RMCC, GBP, Partners, and Office Park from retaining direct 
control over A&G once it becomes a carrier. After the closing, a 
separate petition for exemption, or other pleading, will be filed with 
the Commission, seeking authority for them to dissolve the voting trust 
and acquire direct control over A&G.
    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on Donald 
G. Avery, Slover & Loftus, 1224 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1150.31. 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 automatically 
stay the transaction.
    Decided: January 18, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-1555 Filed 1-21-94; 10:00 am]
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