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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32444]

 

The Indiana & Central Ohio Railroad Company, Inc.; Trackage 
Rights Exemption; West Central Ohio Port Authority

    West Central Ohio Port Authority (WESTCO PA) has agreed to grant 
overhead and local trackage rights to The Indiana & Central Ohio 
Railroad Company, Inc. (I&CO) over approximately 64.4 miles of rail 
line known as the Bellefontaine Cluster in Clark, Champaign, and Logan 
Counties, OH. WESTCO PA is acquiring the line from Consolidated 
Railroad Corporation (Conrail).\1\ The trackage rights consist of the 
following: (1) The Bellefontaine Secondary Track, from milepost 98.8 at 
or near Bellefontaine to milepost 129.4, at a point of connection with 
the Catawba Secondary Track in Springfield; (2) The Catawba Secondary 
Track, from milepost 129.4 in Springfield to milepost 130.6, at a point 
of connection with Conrail's Cincinnati line in Springfield; (3) The 
Catawba Secondary Track, from milepost 0.0 in Springfield to milepost 
17.2 at the end of the track in Mechanicsburg; (4) The Urbana 
Industrial Track, from milepost 45.2 to milepost 50.03 in Urbana; (5) 
The Urbana Secondary Track, from milepost 48.1 in Urbana, to milepost 
54.2 in Bowlusville; (6) The Maitland Secondary Track, from milepost 
124.5 to milepost 122.2 near Maitland; (7) a portion of the former main 
line of the Erie Railroad, from milepost 351.5 near Glen Echo to 
milepost 353.1 in Urbana; and (8) a portion of the Old St. Mary's 
Branch, from milepost 53.3 to milepost 52.73 in Bellefontaine.
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    \1\This proceeding is directly related to a notice of exemption 
concurrently filed in Finance Docket No. 32443, West Central Ohio 
Port Auth.--Acq. Exempt.--Consolidated Rail Corp. to exempt the 
acquisition by WESTCO PA of certain Conrail lines.
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    The trackage rights will allow I&CO to serve new markets and 
shippers in west central Ohio in connection with its existing 
operations near Springfield, OH. The trackage rights were to become 
effective on January 14, 1994.
    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: Robert L. Calhoun, 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW., suite 1000, 
Washington, DC 20036.
    As a condition to the use of this exemption, any employees 
adversely 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: January 21, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-1766 Filed 1-26-94; 8:45 am]
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