[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 14184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7524]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33359]


Wisconsin Central Ltd.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Tomahawk 
Railway, Limited Partnership

    Tomahawk Railway, Limited Partnership (TRL) has agreed to grant 
Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL) non-exclusive overhead trackage rights 
1 over a 0.40-mile portion of TRL's line of railroad between WCL 
milepost 133.09 and WCL milepost 133.49 in Tomahawk, WI. The proposed 
trackage rights will connect with an existing WCL rail line at milepost 
133.09 and, at milepost 133.49, with a TRL rail line which WCL seeks to 
acquire.2 The proposed trackage rights will allow WCL to continue 
to operate over that portion of TRL's line not being acquired by WCL 
and, will provide an overhead route between WCL's line to Ashland, WI, 
and the remainder of WCL's system.
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    \1\ The proposed trackage rights will be a substitute for the 
existing trackage rights over TRL's rail line which were acquired by 
WCL's predecessor, Soo Line Railroad Company (Soo), in 1986 and 
assigned to WCL in 1987. See Soo Line Railroad Company--Trackage 
Rights--Marinette, Tomahawk and Western Railroad Company, Finance 
Docket No. 30839 (ICC served June 26, 1986); Wisconsin Central 
Ltd.--Exemption Acquisition and Operation--Certain Lines of Soo Line 
Railroad Company, Finance Docket No. 31102 (ICC served July 28, 
1988) Appendix B, Part 2.
    \2\ WCL concurrently filed a petition for exemption under 49 
U.S.C. 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. 
10902, to permit WCL to acquire from TRL 4.93 miles of rail line 
between milepost 133.49 at Tomahawk and milepost 138.42 at Bradley, 
WI (the Bradley Line). The petition has been docketed as Wisconsin 
Central Ltd.--Acquisition Exemption--Tomahawk Railway, Limited 
Partnership, STB Finance Docket No. 33358. Together with a short 
segment of trackage between WCL milepost 133.49 and WCL milepost 
133.09 in Tomahawk (the Tomahawk Segment), which TRL will continue 
to own, the Bradley Line will provide a connection between an east-
west WCL line at Bradley previously owned by Soo and a north-south 
WCL line terminating at Tomahawk previously owned by the Chicago, 
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company.
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    The transaction is scheduled to be consummated on approval and 
consummation of the transaction in STB Finance Docket No. 33358, but in 
any event no sooner than March 12, 1997, the effective date of this 
exemption.
    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).
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). If it 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 automatically 
stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 33359, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, Room 713, 1925 K 
Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a copy of each 
pleading must be served on Thomas J. Litwiler, Two Prudential Plaza, 
45th Floor, 180 North Stetson Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601.

    Decided: March 19, 1997.

    By the Board, Joseph H. Dettmar, Acting Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-7524 Filed 3-24-97; 8:45 am]
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