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

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• 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 ; West North Central States
• Edition:
  Volume 3
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
• Abstract:
  Volume III of The Public Response to the Secretary of Transportation’s Rail Services Report is the Midwestern States volume of the Rail Services Planning Office’s three-volume summary. The report covers public testimony, written submissions, shipper evidence, state and local comments, and agency responses to the Secretary of Transportation’s 1974 rail service recommendations. Prepared by the Rail Services Planning Office of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the United States Railway Association, the report covers Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan; and also includes testimony from areas outside the statutory Northeast and Midwest Region. The volume organizes the public record by state, DOT service zone, and individual railroad line, following the same structure used in the Secretary’s rail service report. It documents local and institutional responses to proposed abandonments, potentially excess line designations, and local service recommendations, with particular attention to agricultural traffic, industrial plant access, coal and steel movements, grain elevators, port and Great Lakes connections, highway diversion, passenger-service proposals, energy use, environmental effects, employment impacts, and the consequences of substituting truck service for rail service. In the broader 3R Act process, Volume III functioned as an evidentiary bridge between the Secretary’s initial rail service recommendations and USRA’s Preliminary and Final System Plans, developing line-specific information that could affect decisions about inclusion in Conrail, preservation through subsidy, transfer to other operators, or abandonment. Overall, the report shows how national rail restructuring policy was contested and refined through local economic evidence from Midwestern stakeholders, where rail service needs were closely tied to manufacturing, agriculture, regional freight flows, and community development.
• Content Notes:
  Ex Parte No. 293, Sub-No. 1, Northeastern Rail Investigation
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/92275/dot_92275_DS1.pdf
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