[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 221 (Thursday, November 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57593-57594]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28305]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32783]


Allegheny Valley Railroad Company; Acquisition and Operation 
Exemption; Certain Lines of Consolidated Rail Corporation

    Allegheny Valley Railroad Company (AVR), a noncarrier, has filed a 
notice of exemption to acquire and operate approximately 22.65 miles of 
rail line owned by Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), between 
Pittsburgh and Arnold, in Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties, PA, as 
follows: (1) Valley Industrial Track--(a) between milepost 0.3 and 
milepost 4.7, (b) between milepost 2.7 and milepost 13.8, (c) between 
milepost 1.8 and milepost 2.7, and (d) between milepost 0.7 and 
milepost 2.3; (2) Coleman Secondary Track--between milepost 0.0 and 
milepost 2.5; (3) Indian Run Industrial Track--between milepost 0.0 and 
milepost 0.7; (4) Brilliant Industrial Track--(a) between milepost 2.3 
and milepost 3.0, and (b) between milepost 0.0 and milepost 0.5; and 
(5) Plum Creek Industrial Track--between milepost 0.0 and milepost 
0.25.\1\ Consummation of the proposed transaction was scheduled to take 
place on October 26, 1995.

    \1\ AVR will operate these lines along the south shore of the 
Allegheny River, crossing the river on Conrail's former Brilliant 
Branch and terminating when it joins Conrail's track on the north 
shore of the Allegheny River. Interchange between Conrail and AVR 
will take place in Conrail's Island Avenue Yard by way of operating 
rights granted to AVR between the south end of the Brilliant Branch 
(Conrail's ``CP Home'') and Island Avenue Yard.
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    This transaction is related to a simultaneously filed notice of 
exemption in Finance Docket No. 32784, Phillip C. Larson, Russell A. 
Peterson, and Dennis E. Larson--Continuance in Control Exemption--
Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, in which AVR's shareholders seek to 
continue in control of AVR, a class III shortline railroad, and other, 
non-contiguous class III shortline railroads when AVR becomes a 
carrier.
    Any comments must be filed with the Commission and served on: 
Dennis E. Larson, P.O. Box 28096, Columbus, OH 43228.
    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: November 7, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-28305 Filed 11-15-95; 8:45 am]
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