[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 4 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 413-414]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-153]



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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
[Finance Docket No. 32842]


Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Norfolk and Western Railway 
Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Burlington Northern Railroad 
Company

    Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) has agreed to grant 
overhead trackage rights to Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) and 
Norfolk Western Railway Company (NW), collectively referred to as NS, 
over a 112-mile line of railroad between milepost 10.2, at 
Jacksonville, IL, and milepost 122.3, at Centralia, IL. NW is a class I 
railroad controlled through stock ownership by NSR. NSR and its rail 
carrier subsidiaries operate a rail system extending throughout the 
Southeast and Midwest.
    NS contends that the trackage rights will enable it to have more 
efficient routing of its trains. Currently, NS receives coal trains in 
interchange from The Union Pacific Railroad Company at E. St. Louis, 
IL. These trains then move over NS trackage from E. St. Louis for 
delivery at Coffeen, IL. The BN trackage rights will allow NS to 
receive coal trains in interchange at Worden, IL, and move to Coffeen 
via NS to Litchfield, then over BN's trackage rights between 
Litchfield/Winston and Sorento and NS Sorento to Coffeen. NS also 
claims that the trackage rights will enable it to rationalize the E. 
St. Louis-Sorento portion of its E. St. Louis-Coffeen line. The 
trackage rights will become effective on June 1, 1996.
    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 

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Commission 1 and served on: Robert J. Cooney, Norfolk Southern 
Corporation, 3 Commercial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510-2191.

    \1\ Legislation to sunset the Commission on December 31, 1995, 
and transfer remaining functions is currently under consideration. 
Until further notice, parties submitting pleadings should continue 
to use the current name and address.
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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).

    Dated: December 29, 1995.

    By the Commission, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-153 Filed 1-4-96; 8:45 am]
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