Yreka RR status
Author: CPRR
Date: 04-07-2017 - 11:37

"will it all become a trail?, Condos?"
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 33849]


Colorado Central Railroad Company, Operation Exemption, Yreka
Western Railroad Company

Colorado Central Railroad Company (Colorado), a noncarrier, newly
created to become a Class III railroad, has filed a verified notice of
exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to operate approximately 8.9 miles of
rail line currently owned by Yreka Western Railroad Company (Yreka),
between milepost 0.0 in Montague and milepost 8.9 near Yreka, in
Siskiyou County, CA.\1\
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\1\ Colorado states that the Surface Transportation Board
(Board) had previously authorized abandonment by Yreka of its entire
8.9 miles of rail line. See Yreka Western Railroad Company--
Abandonment Exemption--in Siskiyou County, CA, STB Finance Docket
No. AB-246 (Sub-No. 2X) (STB served May 4, 1999). Colorado further
states that, as of the January 24, 2000 filing of the verified
notice of exemption, the abandonment had not been consummated.
Colorado certifies that its annual revenues will not exceed
those that would qualify it as a Class III rail carrier and that its
revenues are not projected to exceed $5 million.
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Colorado indicates that it has executed an agreement with Yreka to
provide common carrier freight service as well as excursion passenger
service.\2\

...still listed