Railroad Track Extension: Grainbelt Gets More Time on BNSF Lines
Published Date: 4/17/2025
Notice
Summary
Grainbelt Corporation is extending its permission to use BNSF Railway tracks between Oklahoma and Texas until March 30, 2026. This lets Grainbelt keep running trains to serve local customers and move railcars efficiently along the line. The new extension kicks in on May 1, 2025, with no extra costs announced.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Trackage rights extended through 2026
Grainbelt Corporation can keep using BNSF tracks between milepost 668.73 in Long, Oklahoma, and milepost 723.30 in Quanah, Texas, starting May 1, 2025 and through March 30, 2026. This extension explicitly lets Grainbelt access the Plains Cotton Cooperative Association (PCCA) facility near milepost 688.6 at Altus, Oklahoma and run trains to move BNSF customers' railcars; the notice states no extra costs were announced.
Protections for affected employees
Any employees affected by the acquisition of these trackage rights will be protected under the conditions set in Norfolk & Western Railway--Trackage Rights--Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605 (1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast Railway--Lease & Operate--California Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C. 653 (1980). That employee-protection requirement is a condition of the exemption that takes effect on or after May 1, 2025.
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