[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 15, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-14636]


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[Federal Register: June 15, 1994]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 29009 (Sub-No. 6)]1
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    \1\ This notice adds operations by Norfolk Southern Railway 
Company (NSR), the parent of Norfolk and Western Railway Company 
(NW), to an existing trackage rights agreement between NW and the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (C&O), the predecessor of CSX 
Transportation, Inc., that was the subject of an application in 
Norfolk and Western Railway Company Trackage Rights over the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company between Glasgow and Lynchburg, 
in Rockbridge, Amherst and Bedford Counties, VA, and in the City of 
Lynchburg, VA, Finance Docket No. 29009 (Sub-No. 6), that was 
subsequently consolidated in a control proceeding and approved in 
CSX Corp.-Control-Chessie and Seaboard C.L.I., 363 I.C.C. 521 
(1980). This amended notice is issued under the same docket number 
assigned to the original NW-C&O trackage rights notice of exemption.
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Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Amended Trackage Rights 
Exemption--CSX Transportation, Inc.

    CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has agreed to grant approximately 
28.59 miles of overhead trackage rights to Norfolk Southern Railway 
Company (NSR) 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 at 
Balcony Falls, VA, and milepost 147.38 at Lynchburg, VA, in Rockbridge, 
Amherst, and Bedford Counties, and the City of Lynchburg, VA.2 The 
trackage rights will facilitate more economic and efficient operations 
by providing an alternative route for NSR traffic to Hagerstown, MD, 
particularly during peak periods. NSR's existing route to Hagerstown 
includes a single-track branch line between Manassas and Front Royal, 
VA. The proposed consummation date is on or after June 15, 1994.
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    \2\ In a notice of exemption concurrently filed on May 26, 1994, 
in Norfolk Southern Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Over 
Norfolk and Western Railway Company--Between Glasgow, VA, and Front 
Royal, VA, in Finance Docket No. 32511, NW has agreed to grant to 
its parent, NSR, overhead trackage rights over approximately 134.1 
miles of NW's line of railroad between milepost H-63, near Front 
Royal, VA, and milepost H-197.1 near Glasgow, VA. This will complete 
NSR's route to Hagerstown, MD.
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    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: James R. Paschall, Three Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-2191.
    As a condition to use of this exemption, any employees adversely 
affected by the trackage rights will be protected pursuant to 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. 94-14636 Filed 6-14-94; 8:45 am]
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