STB Chair Fuchs updates status of several cases

Surface Transportation Board Chairman Patrick Fuchs yesterday announced recent actions to expedite the resolution of several outstanding board proceedings.

Those actions address the following cases before the STB:

• Colorado Landowners — Adverse Abandonment — Great Western Railway of Colorado LLC in Weld County, Colorado;

• Union Pacific Corp. — control — Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co.; 

• Savannah Industrial Logistics LLC — construction exemption — in Effingham County, Georgia, and Savannah Industrial Transportation LLC — lease and operation exemption — Line of Savannah Industrial Logistics LLC;

• Walkersville Southern Railroad Inc. — discontinuance of service exemption —in Frederick County, Maryland;

• City of Philadelphia — petition for a declaratory order related to Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Co.;

• an exploration of the method the board uses to determine railroad revenue adequacy; and

• a joint petition for rulemaking, annual revenue adequacy determinations.

Click here for more details about actions on those cases.