[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 16 (Monday, January 26, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 3785]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1755]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 33542]


CSX Transportation, Inc.--Trackage Rights Exemption--Consolidated 
Rail Corporation and Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

    Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), as owner, and Indiana 
Harbor Belt Railroad Company (IHB), as operator,1 have 
agreed to grant overhead trackage rights to CSX Transportation, Inc. 
(CSXT), to operate its trains, locomotives, cars, and equipment with 
CSXT's own crews over Conrail's Kankakee Line between Michigan Avenue, 
Indiana Harbor, IN, milepost 0.0, and Osborn, IN, milepost 
4.8, at the connection between Conrail's Kankakee Line and 
the Norfolk and Western Railway Company, a total distance of 
approximately 4.8 miles. The trackage rights are restricted to bridge 
traffic only between the termini of the trackage rights for trainload 
movements of finished automobiles and associated empty equipment to and 
from the Ford Mixing Center in the Calumet Yard area.
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    \1\ Pursuant to a trackage rights agreement, dated April 9, 
1906, Conrail granted trackage rights to IHB to operate over 
portions of its railroad, including that portion of the Kankakee 
Line which CSXT will acquire upon the effective date of this 
exemption. Since IHB acts as agent on behalf of Conrail in the 
performance of supervision, control and maintenance of this line of 
railroad, IHB is included as a party to the trackage rights 
agreement.
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    The transaction is expected to be consummated on January 19, 1998, 
the effective date of the 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 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 
automatically stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 33542, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925 K Street, N.W., 
Washington, DC 20423-0001 and served on: Charles M. Rosenberger, Senior 
Counsel, CSX Transportation, Inc., 500 Water Street, J-150, 
Jacksonville, FL 32202.

    Decided: January 16, 1998.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1755 Filed 1-23-98; 8:45 am]
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