[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 217 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56615-56616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-27795]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

[Finance Docket No. 32790]


Norfolk Southern Railway Company and The Alabama Great Southern 
Railroad Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Burlington Northern 
Railroad Company

    Burlington Northern Railroad Company has agreed to grant 129 miles 
of overhead trackage rights to Norfolk Southern Railway Company and The 
Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company (collectively, NS) between 
milepost 645.2 at Columbus, MS, and milepost 774.2 at Kimbrough, AL. 
This grant will replace the trackage rights previously granted NS over 
the same line between milepost 708.2 at Boligee, AL, and milepost 731.0 
at Demopolis, AL.
    NS will use the expanded trackage rights to: (a) reroute traffic 
between Birmingham, AL, and Columbus via Boligee and rationalize its 
lines between Columbus and Parrish, AL; and (b) reroute traffic between 
Birmingham and Mobile, AL, via Boligee and rationalize its lines 
between Selma, AL, and Demopolis and between Marion Junction, AL, and 
Kimbrough. The proposed trackage rights were scheduled to take effect 
on October 27, 1995, the effective date of this exemption. 

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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 
automatically stay the transaction. Pleadings must be filed with the 
Commission and served on: Robert J. Cooney, Norfolk Southern 
Corporation, 3 Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-2191.
    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: November 2, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-27795 Filed 11-9-95; 8:45 am]
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