Transit Commission v. United States

(after stating the facts as above).

*598The question involved in these suits is whether the Transit Commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission has jurisdiction to pass on the trackage agreements of the Pennsylvania and the Long Island Railroads. This depends on the proper interpretation of section 1 (18) of the Interstate Commerce Act. The caption of subdivision 18 of section 1 is: “Extension or abandonment of lines; certificate required.”

Subdivision 18 provides that: “No carrier by railroad subject to this chapter shall undertake the extension of its line of railroad, or the construction of…