BNSF Railway Company (BNSF), pursuant to a written trackage rights agreement entered into between BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP), has agreed to grant temporary overhead trackage rights to UP, to expire on or about March 18, 2008, over BNSF's lines between Hobart, CA (milepost 144.5), and Riverside, CA (milepost 10.6), a total distance of approximately 55 miles.\1\
\1\ UP states that the total mileage does not correspond to the milepost designations of the endpoints because the trackage rights involve BNSF subdivisions with noncontiguous mileposts.

The transaction is scheduled to be consummated on January 2, 2008. The purpose of the temporary overhead trackage rights is to allow UP to facilitate maintenance work on its lines.

As a condition to this exemption, any employees affected by the acquisition of the temporary trackage rights will be protected by the conditions imposed in Norfolk and Western Ry. Co.Trackage RightsBN, 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in Mendoc ]]> http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2007-12-12-E7-23916 Wed, Dec 12 2007 11:00:00 GMT http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2007-12-12-07-6016 ]]> http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2007-12-12-07-6016 Wed, Dec 12 2007 11:00:00 GMT http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2007-12-12-07-6020 ]]> http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2007-12-12-07-6020 Wed, Dec 12 2007 11:00:00 GMT