The Public Response to the Secretary of Transportation’s Rail Services Report: Rail Service in the Midwest and Northeast Region, Volume I: New England States

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• Alternative Title:
  The Public Response to Secretary of Transportation’s Rail Services Report, Rail Service in Midwest and Northeast Region, Report of Rail Services Planning Office to Us Railway Association. Volume 1, New England States
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Abandonment Branch Lines Conrail Regional Railroads U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Vol 1
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
• Abstract:
  Volume I of The Public Response to the Secretary of Transportation’s Rail Services Report is part of a three-volume Rail Services Planning Office report summarizing public testimony, written submissions, shipper evidence, state and local concerns, and agency comments on the Secretary of Transportation’s 1974 rail service recommendations. Volume I covers the New England portion of the 3R Act region: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. Prepared by the Rail Services Planning Office of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the United States Railway Association, the report organizes the public record by state, DOT service zone, and individual rail line. It documents local responses to proposed abandonments, excess-line designations, and service recommendations, including concerns about industrial dependence on rail, forest-products and agricultural traffic, access to Canadian rail connections, passenger-service proposals, energy efficiency, environmental effects, and the economic consequences of losing rail service. In the broader 3R Act process, the report served as an evidentiary bridge between the Secretary’s initial rail service plan and USRA’s later Preliminary and Final System Plans. Rather than proposing a complete restructuring plan of its own, Volume I captured the public and institutional response that USRA was expected to consider when determining which lines should be included in Conrail, preserved through subsidy, transferred to other operators, or abandoned. Overall, the report illustrates how national rail restructuring policy was tested against local economic dependence on rail service in the New England states.
• Content Notes:
  Ex Parte No. 293, Sub-No. 1, Northeastern Rail Investigation
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9385bddb936f75043a9d91a6992af374885125172a258128b33c1e81478585fc20cb1eb0d3551ac13f7baecf4195a8c33c89b4dfdf2d838fc3f3799beea69847
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92083/dot_92083_DS1.pdf
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