[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 87 (Friday, May 5, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22407-22408]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11134]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32680]


Georgia & Florida Railroad Co., Inc.--Acquisition, Lease, and 
Operation Exemption--Norfolk Southern Railway Company

    Georgia & Florida Railroad Co., Inc. (G&F), a noncarrier, has filed 
a notice of [[Page 22408]] exemption to acquire and operate 
approximately 131.2 miles of rail line currently owned and operated by 
Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NS) and its subsidiaries, Georgia 
Southern and Florida Railway Company and Central of Georgia Railroad 
Company. A description of the involved trackage follows:
    G&F will purchase and operate: (1) A rail line extending between 
milepost 23.25 at Ganor and milepost 33.6 at Schley Junction, near 
Moultrie, and between milepost 29.52 at Norman Junction, near Moultrie, 
and milepost 33.52 at Moultrie, a total distance of 14.35 miles, in 
Colquitt County, GA (the ``Moultrie lines''); (2) a rail line extending 
between milepost 30.65 at Valdosta, in Lowndes County, GA, and milepost 
57.2, at Nashville, in Berrien County, GA, a distance of 26.55 miles 
(the ``Valdosta-Nashville line''); and (3) a rail line extending 
between milepost 93.0 and milepost 95.3, within Camilla, in Mitchell 
County, GA, a distance of 2.3 miles (the ``Camilla line'').
    G&F will also lease from NS and operate a rail line extending 
between GN 0.7 at Albany, in Dougherty County, GA, and milepost GN 58.9 
at Sparks, in Cook County, GA, a distance of approximately 58.2 miles 
(the ``Sparks line'').
    Finally, NS will grant to G&F incidental overhead trackage rights 
extending between milepost 125.2 at Sparks, Cook County, GA, and 
milepost 155.0 at Valdosta, in Lowndes County, GA, a distance of 
approximately 29.8 miles (the ``Sparks-Valdosta line'').
    This transaction is related to the petition for exemption 
concurrently filed in Finance Docket No. 32681, H. Peter Claussen and 
Linda C. Claussen--Continuance-In-Control Exemption--Georgia & Florida 
Railroad Co., Inc., in which the Claussens seek to continue in control 
of G&F upon its becoming a class III rail carrier.1 The proposed 
transaction was expected to be consummated on or after April 13, 1995.

    \1\H. Peter Claussen and Linda C. Claussen (the Claussens) 
currently control through management and stock ownership, the 
following rail common carriers: (1) Albany Bridge Company, Inc. 
(ABC); (2) Gulf and Ohio Railways, Inc. (which operates the 
Mississippi Delta Railroad and the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad) (A&GR); 
(3) Wiregrass Central Railroad Company, Inc.; (4) H & S Railroad 
Company, Inc.; (5) Piedmont & Atlantic Railroad Co., Inc.; and (6) 
Rocky Mount & Western Railroad Co., Inc. The Claussens, the 
controlling stockholders of G&F, do not qualify for a class 
exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2) because the ``Sparks line'' 
connects with ABC and A&GR at Albany, GA, and the ``Camilla line'' 
connects with A&GR at Camilla, GA. In order to insulate themselves 
from unauthorized control during the pendency of the continuance in 
control proceeding, the Claussens have placed all of their shares of 
stock in an independent voting trust.
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    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: Mark 
H. Sidman, Weiner, Brodsky, Sidman & Kider, 1350 New York Avenue, N.W., 
Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005-4797.
    This 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: April 26, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-11134 Filed 5-4-95; 8:45 am]
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