STB Filing for Lehigh Railway to lease NS line

Here's the URL to the STB filing for Lehigh Railway, a non-carrier entity headquartered at the same location as the Owego and Harford Railway in Owego, NY, to lease and operate NS' ex-LV main between Athens and Mehoopany, PA. LRWY will have rights into Sayre for interchange with NS. It also looks like LRWY could interchange with RBMN at Mehoopany.

http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ ... 223871.PDF

Here's a 2nd part of the filing with more details:

http://www.stb.dot.gov/filings/all.nsf/ ... 223872.PDF

Looks like a 10 year lease term with no option to buy. Track to be maintained for Class III 25mph operation with < 10% slow ordered. Line currently is handling 2,080 carloads per year on average. There is confusing language re: NS & D&H and the Southern Tier haulage agreement and its potential impact on the lease. I think there's even a suggestion that LRWY gets $300 lease credits for handling overhead NS traffic that doesn't terminate between Athens and Mehoopany or on the The Monroeton Shippers' Lifeline.

Thanks for posting this John!

You might be interested to know a detailed discussion about this line
has been going on in the NY forum for awhile now:

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... &sk=t&sd=a

thanks,
Scot

scottychaos wrote:Thanks for posting this John!

You might be interested to know a detailed discussion about this line
has been going on in the NY forum for awhile now:

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... &sk=t&sd=a

thanks,
Scot

When did New York State annex the northern tier of Pennsylvania?

Actually, having grown up in Owego, I have been avidly following this topic since the possibility of O&H operating the ex-LV was first raised.

johnpbarlow wrote:

scottychaos wrote:Thanks for posting this John!

You might be interested to know a detailed discussion about this line
has been going on in the NY forum for awhile now:

http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... &sk=t&sd=a

thanks,
Scot

When did New York State annex the northern tier of Pennsylvania?

yeah, that is odd!
but it makes sense really..
because Sayre is much more "connected" to Southern Tier NY railfanning than it is to any Pennsylvania railfanning..

from a "railfan perspective" Sayre might as well be in New York!
just because of its proximity to, and historic relationship to, the Erie southern tier main..
(and that relationship still stands today)
thats why I put the thread in the NY forum in the first place!

there are lot more NY railfans who claim Sayre as part of their "railfan territory" than there are PA railfans..
its just a trick of geography, nothing more..

Scot