This past Sunday morning, after being stopped for a CSX train at 103rd and Rockwell for 10 minutes, I headed west only to be stopped for another CSX train at 103rd and Sacramento for another 10 minutes. Coming back, I was stopped by another CSX train at 103rd and Sacramento for 5 minutes. I started wondering since when does CSX use the Grand Trunk line. The answer is below.
The result of this 'acquisition of an easement' is that an incredible amount of train traffic is now going through our neighborhood. Traffic is being tied up at all hours and police and fire cannot properly respond when needed.
What amazes me is that not a word is being said about this. Not a word. Was there notice of public hearings? Did anyone object? Did anyone show up?
CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) and Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company (GTW) have agreed to exchange perpetual rail operating easements over certain parts of each other's lines. GTW has agreed to grant CSXT an easement over a GTW line between Munster, Ind., and Elsdon, Ill. (Elsdon Line), over which GTW would retain local and overhead trackage rights. CSXT also has agreed to convey local and overhead trackage rights over that line to various GTW affiliates and a CSXT affiliate. In exchange for that easement, CSXT has agreed to grant GTW an easement over a CSXT
line between Leewood, Tenn., and Aulon, Tenn., over which CSXT would retain local and overhead trackage rights.
In this docket, CSXT has filed an application for authority to acquire an easement from GTW, and in the embraced Docket Nos. FD 35522 (Sub-No. 1) and (Sub-No. 2), the CSXT affiliate and the various GTW affiliates, respectively, seek authority to acquire trackage rights over that line.
1This decision also embraces Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Co.—Trackage Rights Exemption—CSX Transportation, Inc., FD 35522 (Sub-No. 1) and Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad Co., Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad Co., Illinois Central Railroad Co., and Wisconsin Central Ltd.—Trackage Rights Exemption—CSX Transportation, Inc., FD 35522 (Sub-No. 2).
In this decision, the Surface Transportation Board (Board) accepts for consideration CSXT's application and the filings in the two embraced subdockets, finds that the transaction proposed in CSXT's application qualifies as “minor,” and adopts a procedural schedule to govern this proceeding and the embraced trackage rights proceedings.
GTW's acquisition of an easement from CSXT will be adjudicated in a separate docket, Docket No. FD 35661, and is the subject of a separate Board decision being served in that docket today. The Board intends to adjudicate both easement acquisitions on parallel schedules, concluding with a final Board decision in both dockets on February 8, 2013.
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ReplyDeleteThe Interstate Commerce Commission of the Department of Transportation should have forced them to build an overpass on 95th Street to allow uninterupted traffic flow, especially with 2 hospitals nearby.
ReplyDeleteAre you talking of the Illinois Commerce Commission?
DeleteMurph, not putting you on the spot and you do not have to post this, and you have my permission to censor this question:
ReplyDeleteWhy do you never go after Cong. Lipinski, this fake Democrat, who is in the complete pocket of these industry?
Just a question; just a question. A fair question. My family was "friends"---though I use that word so lightly and the friend word is not at all mine---of his old man. He is a political... inheritor of a power position.
I know nothing of Congressman Lipinski except that he is another idiot kid of a politician. Please publish what you know.
ReplyDeleteIN DEFENSE OF THE CONGRESSMAN, HE IS ONE OF THE FEW DEFENDERS OF THE CONSERVATIVE VIEWPOINT.
DeleteMurph you are being kind. Most of the children of politicians (but not all) are absolutely worthless human beings. Most of them have grown up with a silver spoon in their mouths and a sense of entitlement. The result of that type of rearing is that they can't wipe their ass without daddy's help.
DeleteIt's an interesting phenomenon. The father works hard and positions himself so that his children will have the good life but somehow omits the critical step of exposing their children to reality. They wind up going through life in a highly dysfunctional state of mind.
Rich Daley is the most famous of these maladjusted children. How many attempts did it take for him pass the bar exam? Then he proceeds to lead the city for 20 plus years? The end result of that noble experiment is evidence of my hypothesis.
Good points on children of politicians. I would add that there may be an additional dimension to this. It is like the electorate (us) - are getting so lazy when it comes to the affairs of government that we just accept these shadow politicians without much vetting. They are like the princes of the Old World and we are slowly slipping back into the bondage of servitude to our Masters because, after all, "his Dad got my brother a job back in 1977" or whatever. These kids of pols are self entitled monsters and they, along with the rest of the Party have become extremely liberal. The views of our elected Democrat Party in this area are far far removed from those of the last generation. Dart is an East Coast snobby liberal, Hynes kid is the same. Hurley was answering phones before she was placed into her position. Cunningham is very very liberal as well. At least Hurley and O'Shea worked for a living prior to being handed their spots. I had a convo with an old time pol recently who largely agreed with me, but when I mentioned Republicans ......whoah!!!! that was a bridge too far. I explained further that their views line up more with my own and that as a white male, I feel like the Democrat Party does not care ONE BIT about me. They have pushed me out. I refuse to compromise my principles to elect someone just because they have a "D" in front of their name on the ballot.
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