[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 13 (Friday, January 20, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4192-4193]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1511]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32634]

V&S Railway, Inc.--Acquisition and Operation Exemption--Rail Line 
of St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company in Franklin, Hopkins, Delta, 
Titus and Hunt Counties, TX
    V&S Railway, Inc. (V&S), a noncarrier, has filed a notice of 
exemption to acquire and operate approximately 65.0 miles of railroad 
from St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (SSW), in Franklin, 
Hopkins, Delta, Titus and Hunt Counties, TX.1 V&S will acquire by 
quitclaim deed or easement the line of railroad known as The Commerce 
Line, between milepost 490.00, near Winfield, TX, and milepost 555.0, 
near Simtrott, TX. V&S will acquire trackage rights only over that 
portion of the line from milepost 535.96 to milepost 537.26, incidental 
to its acquisition of the remainder of the line from milepost 490.0 to 
milepost 555.0.

    \1\V&S will contract with an agent to assist it in providing 
rail freight service over this line, and V&S will be the sole common 
carrier on the line.
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    The proposed transaction was to have been consummated on December 
31, 1994.
    This transaction is related to a concurrently filed notice of 
exemption, Morris H. Kulmer, Kern W. Schumacher, Troy W. Schumacher and 
Michael J. Van Wagenen--Control Exemption--V&S Railway, Inc., Finance 
Docket No. 32635, in which the applicants seek to acquire control of 
V&S and to continue in control of Tulare Valley Railroad Company and 
SF&L Railway, Inc., upon V&S becoming a carrier.
    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: Mark 
H. Sidman, Suite 800, 1350 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20005-
4797.
    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: January 11, 1995.

    [[Page 4193]] By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, 
Office of Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-1511 Filed 1-19-95; 8:45 am]
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