[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 29 (Wednesday, February 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 6616]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3385]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33313]


The Kansas City Southern Railway Company--Trackage Rights 
Exemption--Burlington Northern Railroad Company

    Burlington Northern Railroad Company (BN) 1 has agreed to 
grant overhead trackage rights to The Kansas City Southern Railway 
Company (KCS) over a total of approximately 25.9 miles of rail line 
over the portion of BN's Birmingham subdivision between the BN-KCS 
connection at New Albany, MS (line segment 1001--BN milepost 562.3), 
and the BN-KCS connection at Tupelo, MS (BN milepost 588.2). The 
transaction was expected to be consummated on February 5, 1997.
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    \1\  On December 31, 1996, The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 
Railway Company was merged with and into BN, with the surviving 
corporation named The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway 
Company; any reference to BN in this order shall be understood to 
refer to the new entity.
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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. 10502(d) may 
be filed at any time. The filing of a petition to revoke will not stay 
the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 33313, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Branch, 1201 Constitution 
Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20423 and served on: William J. Wochner, 
Esq., The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, 114 West Eleventh 
Street, Kansas City, MO 64105.
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the 
trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in 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: February 5, 1997.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-3385 Filed 2-11-97; 8:45 am]
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