[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 2, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 39420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18969]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

[Finance Docket No. 32740]


Burlington Northern Railroad Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--
Union Pacific Railroad Company

    The Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) has agreed to grant 
approximately 7.9 miles of local trackage rights to Burlington Northern 
Railroad Company (BN).\1\ The trackage rights extend from milepost 0.0 
at East Olympia to milepost 7.24 at Olympia, WA, together with the 
following connections: approximately 1,428 feet of the east leg of the 
wye track at East Olympia; former Track No. 8 extension of branch 
trackage between milepost 7.24 and milepost 7.29; Track No. 29 between 
milepost 6.93 and milepost 7.22; and between the point of switch in 
Track No. 29, opposite branch track at milepost 7.15, and milepost 
7.20. The trackage rights were to become effective on July 31, 1995.\2\

    \1\ This trackage rights agreement expands on an earlier 
agreement where UP granted overhead trackage rights to BN between 
these points as part of a joint relocation project. Burlington 
Northern Railroad Company and Oregon-Washington Railroad & 
Navigation Company--Joint Project for Relocation of a Line of 
Railroad, Finance Docket No. 30932 (ICC served Dec. 5, 1986).
    \2\ The effective date is calculated from July 24, 1995, the 
filing date for additional information necessary to clarify the 
transaction.
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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: Michael E. Roper, Burlington Northern Railroad Company, 3800 
Continental Plaza, 777 Main Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102-5384.
    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: July 25, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-18969 Filed 8-1-95; 8:45 am]
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