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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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