[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-14635]


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[Federal Register: June 15, 1994]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32511]

 

Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--
Norfolk and Western Railway Company

    Norfolk and Western Railway Company (NW) has agreed to grant to its 
corporate parent, Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR), overhead 
trackage rights over approximately 134.1 miles of rail line, between 
NW's milepost H-63, near Front Royal, VA, and milepost H-197.1, near 
Glasgow, VA.1 NSR's trackage rights will permit direct movement of 
NSR trains via Lynchburg and Glasgow to and from the interchange with 
Conrail at Hagerstown, MD. The trackage rights are to become effective 
on June 15, 1994.
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    \1\By notice of exemption in Norfolk Southern Railway Company--
Trackage Rights Exemption--Norfolk and Western Railway Company, 
Finance Docket No. 31283 (Sub-No. 1) (ICC served June 17, 1991), NW 
was granted overhead trackage rights over a 63-mile line of railroad 
between milepost H-63, at Front Royal, VA, and milepost H-0, at 
Hagerstown, MD. In a concurrently filed notice of exemption in 
Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Amended Trackage Rights 
Exemption--CSX Transportation, Inc., Finance Docket No. 29009 (Sub-
No. 6), NSR has applied for overhead trackage rights over 
approximately 28.59 miles of CSX Transportation, Inc.'s (CSXT) rail 
line between milepost 1.08 at Glasgow, VA, via the Glasgow 
Industrial Track and milepost 174.89 at Balcony Falls, VA, a point 
of connection with CSXT's main line and between milepost 174.89 and 
milepost 147.38 at Lynchburg, VA. The trackage rights in this notice 
will connect these two lines and complete NSR's alternate route to 
Hagerstown. NSR's existing route to Hagerstown includes a single-
track branch line between Manassas and Front Royal, VA.
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    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7).2 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: James R. Paschall, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Three Commercial 
Place, Norfolk, VA 23510.
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    \2\NW and NSR indicate that this transaction is within a 
corporate family and, thus, also exempt under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3).
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    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: June 10, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Sidney L. Strickland, Jr.,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-14635 Filed 6-14-94; 8:45 am]
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