[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 17, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 48465]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-16283]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34740]


The Kansas City Southern Railway Company--Temporary Trackage 
Rights Exemption--Union Pacific Railroad Company

    Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) has agreed to grant non-
exclusive, overhead, temporary trackage rights to The Kansas City 
Southern Railway Company (KCS), over a portion of UP's rail line 
between UP milepost 230.8 (UP's Lufkin Subdivision), in Shreveport, LA, 
and UP milepost 217.4, at TRE Junction (UP's Dallas Subdivision), in 
Dallas, TX, a distance of approximately 192 miles.
    The transaction was scheduled to be consummated on August 4, 2005, 
and the temporary trackage rights will expire on or about November 1, 
2005. The purpose of the temporary trackage rights is to bridge KCS's 
trains while KCS's main lines are out of service due to programmed 
track, roadbed and structural maintenance.
    As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the 
acquisition of the temporary 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), and any employees affected by the 
discontinuance of those trackage rights will be protected by the 
conditions set out in Oregon Short Line R. Co.--Abandonment--Goshen, 
360 I.C.C. 91 (1979).
    This notice is filed under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(8). 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. 34740, 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 William A. Mullins, Baker and 
Miller, PLLC, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 300, Washington, DC 
20037.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: August 10, 2005.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-16283 Filed 8-16-05; 8:45 am]
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