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Arrangements between railroads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Trackage rights or running rights is an arrangement where the company that owns the line retains all rights, but allows another company to operate over certain sections of its track. Temporary rights agreements are typically made when some kind of disaster affects one railroad while a parallel railroad line is fully operational. A union station typically involves trackage rights; the company that owns the station and associated trackage is typically owned in part by the railroads that use it, which operate over it by trackage rights. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trackage_rights   (732 words)

[No title] The unions state that the trackage rights MP granted Conrail are not intended to permit Conrail to go from a point on one of its lines to a point on another of its lines. The railroads argue that the subject trackage rights operation is within the class of transactions exempted in Procedures and is a bona fide transaction undertaken to provide improved service to shippers and to achieve operational efficiencies and economies which otherwise could not be accomplished in the absence of the operation. Regarding TCW's trackage rights, CPR shall not consummate the abandonment until TCW obtains discontinuance authority or an exemption and interested persons are given an opportunity to seek imposition of trail use and public use conditions. www.trainnet.org /Libraries/Lib001/STB-12.TXT   (16857 words)

[No title] Approval of the consolidation was conditioned on the grant of the trackage rights by the consolidating carriers. Finally, he observed that "the Commission's goal of preservation of competition through the grant of trackage rights might well be frustrated by the prospect of requiring the railroads granted those rights to negotiate with the union representing the employees of its competitors" (id. at 39a (emphasis in original)). As Judge MacKinnon explained, "the Commission's goal of preservation of competition through the grant of trackage rights might well be frustrated by the prospect of requiring the railroads granted those rights to negotiate with the union representing the employees of (their) competitors" (id. at 39a (emphasis in original)). www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1985/sg850009.txt   (9852 words)

Decision: 06/25/2002 - FD_34014_0 Once the agency approves trackage rights (whether through an individual exemption, a class exemption, or the application process), those rights remain in effect until it is specifically determined that their discontinuance is consistent with the public interest. CN's acquisition of rights over VBBC track in Canada (between the border and the junction with CN at St. Leonard) was not subject to the Board's jurisdiction. Section 10101(9), although not directly implicated in the class exemption for trackage rights, favors policies that encourage the "honest and efficient management of railroads." The statement of CN officer Clifford L. Carson rebuts any inference that CN acted other than honestly and efficiently in pursuing the exemptions. www.stb.dot.gov /decisions/ReadingRoom.nsf/51d7c65c6f78e79385256541007f0580/e04ba7b106b3f72d85256bde0071620f?OpenDocument   (3777 words)

America's Regional Railroads - Trains.com Forums Additional Soo Line trackage was acquired during 1996 from Washburn north to Max, ND and during 1997 from Oakes east to Hankinson, ND. The railroad was purchased by RailTex during 1996 and became a Regional on February 15, 1997 with the purchase of 161 miles of CN's former DTandI from Diann and Springfield, along with trackage rights 40 miles north to Flat Rock and 72 miles south to Cincinnati. Trackage rights extended the line north to Kansas City and south to Newport, AR, as well as to Springfield, MO. www.trains.com /TRC/CS/forums/800687/ShowPost.aspx   (3725 words)

001020BNSFb According to petitioners, the trackage rights arrangement exempted in STB Finance Docket No. 33926 is necessary because BNSF will be performing maintenance and repairs on its main line and will utilize the trackage rights over UP's lines as alternate routes for BNSF's traffic during that time. Petitioners further maintain that, without approval of temporary trackage rights, it is unlikely that any other arrangement can be reached to allow BNSF to operate over UP's line, and BNSF would face the possibility of severe congestion and service disruption on its main line. Limiting the term of the trackage rights is consistent with the limited scope of the transaction previously exempted and will have no adverse impact on shippers on the line as the trackage rights that are the subject of the exemption are for overhead traffic only. www.depotnews.com /BNSF/001020BNSFb.htm   (429 words)

010531CSXABf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The trackage consists of a new connection CSXT is constructing from Consolidated Rail Corporation's Michigan Line, at milepost 5.65 +/-, to CSXT's line of railroad known as the Detroit Subdivision, milepost CH 7.5 +/-. In addition, CSXT is granting trackage rights to CPR over the Detroit Subdivision, from milepost CH 7.5 +/- to milepost 13.5 +/-, along with trackage at Oak Intermodal Facility necessary to effect the delivery of trains, including necessary head and tail room, for a total of approximately 6.3 +/- miles. A redacted version of the Trackage Rights Agreement between CSXT and CPR (agreement) was filed with the verified notice of exemption. www.depotnews.com /CSX/010531CSXABf.htm   (463 words)

[No title] Finally, the court found its construction of the statute confirmed by the constitutional questions it thought would be raised if Amtrak were empowered to condemn private property to transfer it to another private owner, and the absence of a clear statement from Congress that it intended to permit that result. As Judge Ginsburg recognized in her concurring opinion, the ICC correctly found that no impairment of B&M's common carrier functions is threatened here because Amtrak was required to pay compensation for the line, and B&M was offered trackage rights to serve its existing local customers. The majority, however, insisted that post-conveyance remedies are entirely irrelevant to the issue of impairment; instead, the majority claimed that the evaluation of impairment must be restricted to the effects of the condemnation viewed in isolation. www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1990/sg900109.txt   (5360 words)

Re: Shared fueling facilities - Trains.com Forums I know that one RR would sometimes (or was forced to) share trackage rights with one another RR in order to successfully move through a region. I presume there is an example where a railway arriving on trackage rights had its own yard but used someone else's engine-servicing facilities, or vice versa, and perhaps someone can remind me of one. The trackage in any major city is a fantastic mess of ownerships sole, joint, and tenant; trackage rights of every type; maintenance agreements based on car count, car weight, axle count, flat fees. www.trains.com /TRC/CS/forums/864094/ShowPost.aspx   (793 words)

USCA1 Opinion 04-1800 In doing so, we hold that the bankruptcy court does not have the authority under section 1170 to adversely abandon the lines or trackage rights of a non-debtor, on the petition of a debtor railroad who owned those lines at the time of bankruptcy. The STB found that the trackage rights obligation between CN and BAR (and now honored by MMandA) in March 2001 was fair and entered into at arm's length. He proposes allowing the bankruptcy court authority over abandonments of a non-debtor's rail lines and trackage rights in situations in which the debtor has a property or contract interest in the non-debtor's lines or trackage rights. www.ca1.uscourts.gov /cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=04-1800.01A   (5797 words)

National R.R. Passenger Corp. v. Boston & Me. Corp., 503 U.S. 407 (1992). B&M next sought to convert the proceeding into a trackage rights proceeding under § 562(a), but the ICC again rejected B&M's position, holding that Amtrak had an "election of remedies" under § 562 and so had no obligation to seek trackage rights under subsection (a) before invoking subsection (d). As Amtrak could obtain use of the property by obtaining either a trackage rights agreement under § 562(a), or by condemning an easement under § 562(d), the entire fee interest was not " `required for intercity rail passenger service.' " 286 U. App. The ICC was not unreasonable in considering the effect of the trackage rights agreements and the just compensation award in assessing significant impairment; and the ICC's conclusion, that B&M's ability to carry out its common carrier obligations will not be impaired by the transaction in any significant way, is supported by substantial evidence. supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/90-1419.ZO.html   (4032 words)

On Track On Line - STB Oversight of CSX/NS Takeover of Conrail, STB Finance Docket 33388 (Sub-No. 95) W&LE, a regional railroad that had been created in 1990 as an NS spin-off and that had thereafter expanded with line acquisitions and trackage rights grants from CSX, NS, and Conrail, was concerned that it would be severely affected by the Conrail Transaction as proposed. In addition, NS and W&LE treated the Huron Dock lease and associated trackage rights as de facto extended, pending negotiation of a settlement to implement the Huron Dock condition. These trackage rights are intended to be used in combination with rights for W&LE to operate over NS’s lines between the Knob and Campbell Road Yard, and over CSX’s lines between Wellington and Berea. www.on-track-on-line.com /cr-stb33388-95.shtml   (2495 words)

A Bit of Tioga County Railroad History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Hence trackage rights from Owego to Waverly were negotiated with the Erie to reach that point. The trackage was then relegated to providing service to local communities, allthough it was the source of heavy milk business until the late 1930's. With the abandonment of other LV trackage, freight trains for East Ithaca, Cortland, and Canastota were routed over the old SC line to Freeville where there was a junction to the remaining former Elmira, Cortland and Northern trackage. www.tier.net /nvhistory/rrhist.htm   (547 words)

EPA: Federal Register: Union Pacific Railroad Company--Trackage Rights Exemption--BNSF Railway Company UP indicates that the transaction was to be consummated on March 29, 2006, the effective date of the exemption (7 days after the exemption was filed). The purpose of the amended trackage rights agreement, under which UP will retain its existing rights, is to grant UP the right to set out and pick up traffic at milepost 114.1 at Wichita Falls, TX. As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the amended trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk and Western Ry. www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2006/April/Day-11/i5335.htm   (280 words)

Railfan.net Forums - First trackage rights trains traverse WNY&P The intent, although NS officials would not say so at the time, was to shave 65 miles off its present route structure in order to move Pennsylvania coal to northeast power plants. Also key to the trackage rights purchase is NS' need to have a secure secondary route should its Southern Tier Line to Buffalo fail, driven by concerns over the aging Portage bridge over the Genesee River. Revenue from its trackage rights agreement with NS is considered key to continued development as WNYandP works to increase traffic in Allegany County and Hornell. forums.railfan.net /?board=WNYP&action=display&num=1079548253   (430 words)

[No title] To address this decrease in competition, UP and SP agreed in September 1995 to grant extensive "trackage rights" to the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company ("BNSF").1 That agreement was incorporated in the merger application. In particular, WCTL argues that the trackage rights fee charged to BNSF under the settlement agreement incor- porated as a merger condition is too high and will make it impossible for BNSF to compete effectively. The Board extensively discussed the trackage rights issue in its decision and found the negotiated trackage fee of 3.0 to 3.1 mills per gross ton-mile to be fully consistent with the princi- ples set forth in its precedents. pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov /common/opinions/199903/96-1373a.txt   (3066 words)

Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Archive - History The EJandE and the Pennsy in turn were granted rights over IHB, enabling the J to reach Franklin Park and PRR to access the stockyards via the Terminal line. To access the shops area more easily from their main line west of Calumet Park, IHB secured trackage rights over MC to Gibson in 1913, and with the downgrading of the MC in the Calumet area by NYC and Penn Central after 1960, this segment of trackage was formally leased to the Harbor. In addition, NS and CSX are the lessors of the Harbor's leased trackage (the ex-CIandS line and the main line between Calumet Park and Gibson). www.dhke.com /ihbarchive/ihbhst.html   (2441 words)

PENNRAIL Divisions - Trackage Rights segments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) At left is a rough sketch of where the divisions are in relation to each other. As time permits, a master map will be created, and the Trackage rights segments will be further detailed. That the border between the Bedford Division and the Trackage rights from Tyrone was Hollidaysburg and not Altoona, on or about Morrison Cove Jct., or not all that far from where the Everett RR meets CR (Now NS), although the Everett parks at the Duncansville "Wye Switches". home.earthlink.net /~pennrail/division/rights.html   (104 words)

trackage - OneLook Dictionary Search Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "trackage" is defined. Trackage : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] Phrases that include trackage: incidental trackage rights, overhead trackage rights, trackage rights www.onelook.com /?w=trackage   (162 words)

NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION ET AL. v. BOSTON & MAINE CORP. ET AL. 503 U.S. 407 -- US Supreme Court ... The Act permits Amtrak to enter into "trackage rights" agreements to use tracks owned and used by freight railroads, 45 U. § 562(a), and allows Amtrak to ask petitioner Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to condemn railroad property "required for intercity rail passenger service" if Amtrak and the railroad cannot agree upon sale terms, § 562(d). Though BandM would have trackage rights, CV would gain not only ownership of the segment, but also the right to obtain new customers on its route. As Amtrak could obtain use of the property by obtaining either a "trackage rights" agreement under § 562(a), or by condemning an easement under § 562(d), the entire fee interest was not "'required for intercity rail passenger service.'" 286 U. App. supreme.justia.com /us/503/407/case.html   (6228 words)

CNJ Trackage Rights Easton to Allentown Although the western terminus of the LandHR was at Hudson Yard (north of Phillipsburg, New Jersey), the LandHR enjoyed trackage rights on the CNJ between LandH Junction (point of connection to the CNJ at South Easton, Pennsylvania) westward to Allentown Yard. The rock wall at the train's right is the south face of Mt. Ida. The track in the left foreground is the LandHR interchange with the LV and the tracks at the right are the LV mainline and passenger lead into their station at South Easton. www.gingerb.com /cnj_trackage_rights_easton_to_allentown.htm   (1584 words)

STB grants railroad trackage rights despite exclusive ownership decision. | U.S. Rail News (July, 2002) (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) STB grants railroad trackage rights despite exclusive ownership decision. The Surface Transportation Board July 19 gave a New Hampshire shipper the right to choose an alternate railroad to carry its heating oils over track belonging to only one railroad. The ruling involved a 1990 Interstate Commerce Commission decision that limited trackage rights over the line to only Springfield... www.accessmylibrary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /coms2/summary_0286-6140681_ITM   (139 words)

Leasing and Trackage Rights - The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains If this is the wrong forum for this, please direct a moderator to move it to the right location... I want my railroad to have access to the coal industry and these rails, but my 110 miles of track are located in the NW part of the state. But since it's a trackage right, it's likely they'd only be getting to interchange closer to the mine, and not serve it directly, as most railroads do not allow switching rights to go with the track rights. www.the-gauge.com /showthread.php?t=23418   (1813 words)

Rail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The line between Portland and Tacoma is operated under a trackage rights agreement with the BNSF. The former Milwaukee Road trackage which runs from Sumas to Lynden, now owned and operated by BNSF, used to connect directly with the CP at the border, but the connection has been severed to eliminate grade crossings with local streets which appear to have just been reconstructed. Another more recently created one, MRL, has trackage rights only and provides no local service in Washington State and is not shown in the table. www.wsdot.wa.gov /Rail/plans/freightupdate/Newch2.cfm   (7360 words)

TRACKAGE RIGHTS EXEMPTION The purpose of the trackage rights is to allow BNSF to bridge its train rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk and overhead trackage rights arrangement described in the present proceeding www.trainorders.com /discussion/read.php?1,50771   (419 words)

Surface Transportation Board announces results of January 19 voting conference [Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers] The Members voted, 3-0, to (1) deny petitions of the United Transportation Union-New York Legislative Board, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, a Division of the Rail Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, asking the Board to revoke trackage rights obtained through regulatory exemptions authorized in STB Finance Docket Nos. The Members voted, 3-0, to grant the petition, subject to labor-protective conditions and a condition that WSOR notify the shippers on the line of the proposed purchase and lease. At issue in this case is a petition to reopen a proceeding involving the Lamoille Valley Railroad Company's notice of exemption from Board regulation for the abandonment of portions of a railroad line and the discontinuance of trackage rights over a separate, adjoining line. www.ble.org /pr/news/headline.asp?id=12490   (1265 words)

RAILROAD.NET :: View topic - Freight trackage rights over NJT? I'm looking for a list of which freight railroads have trackage rights over NJT and where. They do not have the right to solicit or serve any online customers. I believe the NJDOT bought that trackage in the late 1970s. railroad.net /forums/viewtopic.php?t=8895   (1028 words)

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