In re Penn Central Transportation Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER NO. 3971

PULL AM, District Judge.

During the 1950s, Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company became interested in building a coal slurry pipeline from its mines and preparation plant at Georgetown, Ohio, to the generating plant of one of its customers, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, at Eastlake, Ohio, some 107 miles away. It therefore undertook negotiations with the various railroads whose tracks the pipeline would cross.

There were 13 crossings of railroad rights-of-way involved, 7 owned by Penn Central or its predecessors (6 by Pennsylvania Railroad Company, 1 by…