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[FR Doc No: 94-32216]


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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 31504 (Sub-No. 1) and Finance Docket No. 31504 
(Sub-No. 2)]

 

Central of Georgia Railroad Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--
Over Lines of Norfolk Southern Railway Company and The Cincinnati, New 
Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company and Norfolk Southern Railway 
Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Over Lines of Central of Georgia 
Railroad Company

    Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) has agreed to grant local 
and overhead trackage rights to its subsidiary, Central of Georgia 
Railroad Company (CGA), over the following lines: (1) Between Ooltewah, 
TN (milepost 15.2-H) and Atlanta, GA (milepost 148.2-H at Inman Yard) a 
distance of approximately 133.0 miles; (2) between Cleveland, TN 
(milepost 0.0-I), and Cohutta, GA (milepost 14.5-I), a distance of 
approximately 14.5 miles; and (3) between Tasso, TN (milepost 208.0-A) 
and Chattanooga, TN (milepost 240.0-A at deButts Yard, TN), a distance 
of approximately 32.0 miles, for a total of approximately 179.5 
miles.1
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    \1\CGA has been granted overhead trackage rights over 106.5 
miles of NSR lines: between milepost 15.2-H at Ooltewah, TN, and 
milepost 78.1-H near Rome (Fox), GA, a distance of 62.9 miles; 
between milepost 14.5-I at Cohutta, GA, and milepost 0.0-I at 
Cleveland, TN, a distance of 14.5 miles; and between milepost 208.9-
A near Tasso, TN, and milepost 238.0-A at Citico Junction, TN, a 
distance of 29.1 miles. See Central of Georgia Railroad Company--
Trackage Rights Exemption--Southern Railway Company and The 
Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific Railway Company, Finance 
Docket No. 31504 (ICC served Oct. 18, 1990) (Central of Georgia). 
Thus, portions of existing trackage rights are being expanded from 
overhead rights only to include both local and overhead trackage 
rights.
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    The Cleveland-Cohutta line joins the Ooltewah-Atlanta line at 
Cohutta (milepost 14.5-I on the Cleveland-Cohutta line, which is also 
milepost 26.7-H on the Ooltewah-Atlanta line). The Tasso-Chattanooga 
line joins the Cleveland-Cohutta line at Cleveland (milepost 212.7A on 
the Tasso-Chattanooga line, which is also milepost 0.0-I on the 
Cleveland-Cohutta line). The Tasso-Chattanooga line also joins the 
Ooltewah-Atlanta line at Ooltewah (milepost 226.6-A on the Tasso-
Chattanooga line, which is milepost 15.2-H on the Ooltewah-Atlanta 
line). Thus, the 179.5 miles over NSR are contiguous.
    The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company 
(CNOTP), a subsidiary of NSR, has agreed to grant local and overhead 
trackage rights to CGA over approximately 6.4 miles of NSR's line of 
railroad between Chattanooga (milepost 338.0, 23rd Street Interlocking 
Tower) and Citico Junction, TN (milepost 332.4).2 Citico Junction 
is at milepost 238.2-A on the NSR Tasso-Chattanooga line. Thus this 
line of railroad is contiguous with the 179.5 NSR miles.
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    \2\CGA has been granted overhead trackage rights over this same 
CNOTP line in Central of Georgia, supra.
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    The CGA has agreed to grant local and overhead trackage rights to 
NSR, over approximately 98.4 miles of rail line between Green, GA 
(milepost C-61.4), and Senoia, GA (milepost C-70.0) and between Wansley 
Junction, GA (milepost WA-.0) and Wansley, GA (milepost WA-7.0). The 
Wansley Junction-Wansley line originates from the Green-Senoia line at 
milepost C-302.0. The Green-Senoia line connects with NSR's Ooltewah-
Atlanta line (over which CGA will receive the trackage rights indicated 
above) at Green (milepost 92.0- on the Ooltewah-Atlanta line, which is 
milepost C-361.4 on the Green-Senoia line).
    As previously stated, the trackage rights will expand existing 
trackage rights and are related to each other because they will allow 
two carriers within a corporate family, NSR and CGR, the ability to 
provide direct single-carrier local service over the same lines of 
railroad of these affiliated carriers in southeastern Tennessee and 
northwestern Georgia.
    The exemption became effective on December 19, 1994. Operations 
under the trackage rights are scheduled to begin on or after December 
30, 1994.
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3) and (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, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Three 
Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-191.
    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: December 22, 1994.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-32216 Filed 12-29-94; 8:45 am]
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