[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5272-5273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2696]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board, Transportation
[STB Finance Docket No. 33290] <SUP>1


Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company--Acquisition and Operation 
Exemption--Lines of Union Pacific Railroad Company

    Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company (SSMB), a Class III rail carrier, 
has filed a notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1150.41 to acquire and 
operate approximately 220 miles of rail lines of Union Pacific Railroad 
Company (UP) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northern Wisconsin. 
The lines to be acquired and operated are: (1) The Escanaba 
Subdivision, extending from milepost 4.0 near Duck Creek, WI, to LS&I 
milepost 74.50 at Ishpeming, MI, a distance of 178.25 miles. (There are 
milepost equations at Menominee, MI, where milepost 49.99 = milepost 
51.00, and at Escanaba, MI, where milepost 116.49 = milepost 117.00.) 
<SUP>2; (2) The Iron Mountain Branch, extending from milepost 0.0 at 
Powers, MI (connection with the Escanaba Subdivision) to milepost 30.24 
at Antoine, MI, a total distance of 32.01 miles. (The Iron Mountain 
Branch includes 1.30 miles of trackage rights over E&LS between UP 
mileposts 28.45 and 29.60 at Antoine, and a 1.62-mile industrial park 
spur at Antoine.); (3) The Niagara Industrial Lead, extending from 
milepost -0.40 at Quinnesec, MI (connection with the Iron Mountain 
Branch) to milepost 3.75 at Niagara, WI, a distance of 4.15 miles.; and 
(4) The Palmer Industrial Lead, extending from milepost 0.0 at Cascade 
(connection with the Escanaba Subdivision) to milepost 6.06 at Palmer, 
MI, a distance of 6.06 miles. (The Palmer Industrial Lead currently is 
out of service.) SSMB also will acquire by assignment from UP 
incidental trackage rights over lines of LS&I between Eagle Mills Jct. 
and Eagle Mills, MI, a distance of approximately 3 miles, and between 
Empire Junction and Empire Mine, MI, a distance of approximately 2 
miles, and over lines of Fox Valley & Western Ltd. between Duck Creek 
and Green Bay, WI, a distance of approximately 4 miles.
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    \1\ On January 6, 1997, Inland Steel Company and LTV Steel 
Company, Inc., jointly filed a petition to reject the notice of 
exemption or to revoke the exemption. Simultaneously, they filed a 
petition to stay the effectiveness of the notice of exemption 
pending a ruling on the petition to reject or revoke. The stay 
request was denied by decision served January 24, 1997. The petition 
to reject or revoke will be handled in a separate decision.
    \2\  Trackage between Negaunee, MI, and Ishpeming is owned and 
operated jointly by UP, Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WCL), and the Lake 
Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company (LS&I). Reflecting this 
arrangement, changes in milepost numbering occur at West Wye near 
Negaunee, where milepost 176.85 and WCL milepost 164.49 designate 
the same point, and again at Euclid Avenue Yard in Ishpeming, where 
WCL milepost 170.70 and LS&I milepost 73.79 designate the same 
point. The Escanaba Subdivision includes industry trackage at 
Menominee/Marinette jointly owned or operated with the Escanaba & 
Lake Superior Railroad Company (E&LS).
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    The scheduled consummation date originally was January 20, 1997, 
but SSMB extended it to January 24, 1997.
    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 does not automatically stay the transaction.
    An original and 10 copies of all pleadings, referring to STB 
Finance Docket No. 33290, must be filed with the Surface Transportation 
Board, Office of the Secretary, Case Control Branch, 1201 Constitution 
Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20423. In addition, a copy of each 
pleading must be served on: Janet H. Gilbert, 6250 North River Road, 
Suite 9000, Rosemont, IL 60018 and Robert H. Wheeler, Two Prudential

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Plaza, 45th Floor, 180 North Stetson Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601.

    Decided: January 28, 1997.

    By the Board, David M. Konschnik, Director, Office of 
Proceedings.
Vernon A. Williams,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-2696 Filed 2-3-97; 8:45 am]
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