AT&T v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

PELLEGRINI, Judge.

AT&T and Sprint Communications Company L.P. (Sprint)1 appeal an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission)2 denying them reimbursement *982of their costs for relocating fiber optic cables at five rail-highway crossings.3

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This case emanates from the need by Delaware and Hudson Railway Company, Inc. (Delaware and Hudson) to lower railroad tracks at a number of rail-highway crossings in northeastern Pennsylvania to accommodate double stack container railroad cars. Because the Pennsylvania General Assembly wanted to promote commerce within the Commonwealth by…