[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 125 (Friday, June 29, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 35739]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-12606]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 35045]


Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company--Amended Trackage 
Rights Exemption--Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company

    Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company (DMIR) has agreed to 
amend the existing overhead trackage rights previously granted to 
Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company (DWP).\1\ The rights 
extend between Shelton Junction, MN (milepost B 2.71 on DMIR's Virginia 
Branch), and Nopeming Junction, MN (milepost R 5.77 on DMIR's Spirit 
Lake Branch), a distance of approximately 64 miles. DWP states that the 
amendment will allow a limited expansion of DWP's rights on trackage 
over which it already operates.
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    \1\ DWP initially obtained these trackage rights in Duluth, 
Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company, STB Finance Docket 
No. 34424 (Sub-No. 1) (STB served Apr. 9, 2004).
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    The purpose of the proposed transaction is to allow for 
nonexclusive overhead movements, reblocking cars within single trains, 
or setting out cars requiring servicing over the existing trackage 
(including an additional 616 feet of connecting track), thus enhancing 
operational efficiency. The transaction includes all industry spurs, 
connecting tracks and sidings now existent or hereafter constructed 
along the subject tracks, and right-of-way for the tracks, signals, 
interlocking devices and plants, telegraph and telephone lines, and 
other necessary appurtenances, a distance of approximately 63.82 miles, 
all within the State of Minnesota.
    The earliest this transaction may be consummated is July 14, 2007, 
the effective date of the exemption (30 days after the exemption was 
filed).
    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 effectiveness of the exemption. Petitions for 
stay must be filed no later than July 6, 2007 (at least 7 days before 
the exemption becomes effective).
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 35045, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, 395 E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423-0001. In addition, a 
copy of each pleading must be served on Thomas J. Healey, 17641 S. 
Ashland Ave., Homewood, IL 60430.
    Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at http://www.stb.dot.gov.

    Decided: June 25, 2007.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
 [FR Doc. E7-12606 Filed 6-28-07; 8:45 am]
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