Re: Yreka RR status - Abandonment Exemption
Author: ron
Date: 04-08-2017 - 08:11
I thought the Colorado Central had been acquired by the Colorado and Southern years ago...
Colorado Central is still the common Wrote:
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> Yreka RR status
> Author: CPRR
> Date: 04-07-2017 - 11:37
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> "will it all become a trail?, Condos?"
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> DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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> Surface Transportation Board
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> Colorado Central Railroad Company, Operation
> Exemption, Yreka
> Western Railroad Company
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> 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