Pennsylvania Railroad v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission denying the application of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the appellant, to change the status of its station at Reynoldsville, Jefferson County, from an agency freight station to that of a nonagency, carload only, freight station.

This Court has already decided a number of these cases in which the change was permitted and has held that the factors to be considered in the discontinuance of service at an agency freight station are (1) accessibility to other stations; (2) the ratio of cost of…