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[FR Doc No: 94-14404]
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32509]
Luzerne County Rail Corporation--Lease, Operation, and
Acquisition Exemption--Certain Rail Lines and Operating Rights of F&L
Realty and Pocono Northeast Railway, Inc.
Luzerne County Rail Corporation (LCRC), a noncarrier subsidiary of
the Redevelopment Authority of Luzerne County, has filed a notice of
exemption to lease and operate certain rail lines owned by Pocono
Northeast Railway, Inc. (PNER) and F&L Realty (F&L) in Luzerne and
Lackawanna Counties, PA, as follows: (1) The Dunmore Secondary Track,
between milepost 6.5, at Avoca, and milepost 8.6 at Rocky Glen, a
distance of about 2.1 miles; (2) The Avoca Industrial Track, between
milepost 1.8, at No. 7 Junction, and milepost 6.5 at Avoca, a distance
of 4.7 miles, including the connection with the track of CR, between
``LB'' Junction and the switch of the Dunmore Secondary Track, a
distance of 0.123 miles, and the Langcliff Connecting Track, between
milepost 0.0, at Duryea, and the connection with DH in the middle of
York Avenue, at milepost 0.867, a distance of 0.867 miles; (3) The West
Pittston Running Track, between milepost 0.0 at West Pittston, and
milepost 3.0, at Harding, a distance of 3.0 miles, and between milepost
186.4, at West Pittston, and milepost 194.4 in Kingston, a distance of
0.2 miles; (4) The Suscon Running Track, between milepost 154.5 at
Suscon, and milepost 156.6, at Suscon, a distance of 2.1 miles; (5) The
Wilkes-Barre Secondary, between milepost 169.2, at Ashley, and milepost
185.5, at Pittston, a distance of 16.3 miles; (6) The Nanticoke
Industrial Track, between milepost 0.0 at Ashley, and milepost 2.6 at
Central Scrap, a distance of 2.6 miles; (7) The Harry E. Breaker Spur,
between milepost 0.1, at Maltby Junction, and milepost 0.5, a distance
of 0.4 miles; (8) The APC line, between milepost 0.0 and milepost 0.6
in Wilkes-Barre, a distance of 0.6 miles; (9) The Brownsville
Industrial Track, between milepost 0.0 at Hillside, and milepost 1.0 at
Brownsville, a distance of 1.0 miles; (10) The Wilkes-Barre Industrial
Track, between milepost 59.9, at Ferry Street, and milepost 62.9, at
Wilkes-Barre, a distance of 3.0 miles; (11) The Miner's Mills
Industrial Track, between milepost 173.6, at N. Wilkes-Barre, and
Milepost 176.1 at Hudson, a distance of 2.5 miles; (12) The Pettibone
Branch, between milepost 0.0 and milepost 0.759, at Dorranceton, a
distance of 0.759 miles; (13) The Kingston Industrial Track, between
milepost 142.7, at Pittston Junction, and Railroad Station 8594+58, a
distance of 8.1 miles; and (14) The DH Wilkes- Barre Connector, from
milepost A-208.08, Hudson Yard, to Conyngham Avenue, City of Wilkes-
Barre, a distance of 2.5 miles.\1\
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\1\The described lines are among those previously operated by
PNER, which ceased all rail operations on September 17, 1993.
Pursuant to Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Company, Inc.--Directed
Service--Pocono Northeast Railway, Inc., Directed Service Order No.
1513 (ICC served Sept. 28 and Nov. 26, 1993), Delaware-Lackawanna
Railroad Company, Inc. (D-L) performed interim uncompensated
directed service over the described lines and other PNER/F&L lines
between September 29, 1993, and May 23, 1994.
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LCRC also will acquire PNER's operating rights over two segments of
rail line owned by Greater Wilkes-Barre Partnership, Inc. (GWBP), and
IR, Inc. (IR): (1) GWBP's Hanover Industrial Track, between milepost
0.0 at Ashley, and milepost 0.5, at Hanover Industrial Park, a distance
of 0.5 miles; and (2) IR's Suscon Industrial Track, between milepost
154.5 at Suscon, and milepost 158.7, at Hillside, a distance of 4.2
miles.
The rail line LCRC will lease and operate totals approximately
55.55 miles.
LCRC expected to consummate its lease of the involved lines on May
26, 1994. As part of the transaction, LCRC will acquire an option to
acquire the leased lines (except those owned by GWBP and IR), and it
expects to exercise that option by September 1, 1994.
This proceeding is related to Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Co.,
Inc.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Luzerne County Rail Corporation,
Finance Docket No. 32510, wherein PD-L has concurrently filed a notice
of exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7) regarding its acquisition of
local trackage rights over the 16 segments described herein.
Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: Kevin
M. Sheys, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, 1020 19th Street, NW, Suite
400, Washington, DC 20036.
The 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: June 6, 1994.
By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-14404 Filed 6-13-94; 8:45 am]
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