[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 47 (Friday, March 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13169-13170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-5946]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

[Finance Docket No. 32562 (Sub-No. 2)]


Soo Line Railroad Company Pd/b/a CP Rail System--Acquisition of 
Trackage Rights Exemption--Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad Company, 
Inc., Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Company and Wisconsin River Transit 
Commission d/b/a Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission

    Wisconsin1 and Calumet Railroad Company, Inc. (WICT), 
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Company (WSOR), and Wisconsin River 
Transit Commission d/b/a Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission 
(WRRTC), have agreed to grant non-exclusive overhead trackage rights 
and certain industry access to Soo Line Railroad Company d/b/a CP Rail 
System (CPRS), over and upon WRRTC's line of railroad (owned in 
conjunction with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and leased 
and operated by WICT and WSOR). The trackage is located between the 
division of ownership with the Chicago Transit Authority (operated as 
METRA) at Fox Lake, IL, milepost 49.8 +/- and the CPRS connection at 
milepost 94.49 +/- at Janesville, WI. The trackage rights will offer 
CPRS an alternative and additional route to handle traffic between 
Janesville and Chicago, IL. The trackage rights were to become 
effective on or after August 29, 1994.

    \1\Notices of Exemption were concurrently filed in Soo Line 
Railroad Company d/b/a CP Rail System--Acquisition of Trackage 
Rights Exemption--Wisconsin and Calumet Railroad Company, Inc., 
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Company and Wisconsin River Transit 
Commission d/b/a Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission, Finance 
Docket No. 32562, and Soo Line Railroad Company d/b/a CP Rail 
System--Acquisition of Trackage Rights Exemption--Wisconsin and 
Calumet Railroad Company, Inc., and Wisconsin & Southern Railroad 
Company, Finance Docket No. 32562 (Sub-No. 1).
    Under the Commission's rules of practice at 49 CFR 
1180.4(g)(2)(ii), this notice and the notices in Finance Docket No. 
32562 and Finance Docket No. 32562 (Sub-No. 1), should have been 
published within 20 days of filings. It was recently discovered 
that, through oversight, the notices had not been published.
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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.2 The filing of a petition to revoke will not 
automatically stay the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the 
Commission and served on: Wayne C. Serkland, 1000 Soo Line Bldg., 105 
South 5th St., Minneapolis, MN 55402.

    \2\The United Transportation Union filed a petition to revoke on 
September 1, 1994. That petition is currently pending.
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    As a condition to the use of this exemption, any employees 
adversely 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: March 6, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-5946 Filed 3-9-95; 8:45 am]
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