[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 5, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 17283]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-6456]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34674]


BNSF Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--Union Pacific 
Railroad Company

    Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) has agreed to grant certain 
trackage rights to BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) over UP's line of 
railroad between BNSF South Junction, TX (milepost 656.2), extending to 
Tower 55 in Fort Worth, TX, in the vicinity of UP's milepost 754.4, a 
total distance of approximately 98.2 miles.
    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on the March 24, 
2005 effective date of the exemption.
    The purpose of the trackage rights is to allow BNSF and UP to share 
each other's tracks and implement directional operations by funding 
certain track and signal improvements.
    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. 34674, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, 1925 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a 
copy of each pleading must be served on Michael E. Roper, BNSF Railway 
Company, P.O. Box 961039, Fort Worth, TX 76161-0039.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at 
www.stb.doc.gov..

    Decided: March 28, 2005.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-6456 Filed 4-4-05; 8:45 am]
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