Cisco Cooperative Grain Co. v. Interstate Commerce Commission

CUMMINGS, Chief Judge.

These consolidated petitions for review seek to set aside decisions of the Interstate Commerce Commission (“ICC”) addressing the interaction of the feeder railroad development program, 49 U.S.C. § 10910, created by the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, and the abandonment program contained in 49 U.S.C. §§ 10903-10905. Petitioner Cisco Cooperative Grain Company (“Cisco”) sought to acquire under the feeder railroad development program 13.41 miles of track between Cisco, Illinois, and Green’s Switch, Illinois (“the Cisco line”). Petitioner Prairie Central Railway Company (“PACY”)…