BEFORE THE
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
| In the Matter of the Application of | ) |
| Yosemite Valley Railway Company, a | ) |
| | corporation, for a certificate of | ) Finance Docket |
| | public convenience and necessity | ) |
| | authorizing the abandonment of its | ) No. 14688 |
| | railroad lines and the operation | ) |
| | thereof. | ) |
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PETITION OP PACIFIC COAST RAILROADING
ASSOCIATION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE IN
THE ABOVE APPLICATION.
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TO THE HONORABLE, THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
Pacific Coast Railroading Association, herein
after called, "Intervener", represents that it has an
interest in the above entitled proceeding and the subject
matter thereof, and desires to Intervene therein and
become a party thereto, and that it opposes the granting
of the application unless decision and certificate therein
shall contain a condition that the lines shall be sold
to any responsible person, firm, or corporation,offering
to purchase the same for continued operation and willing
to pay not less than the net salvage value thereof, and
in support of this petition represents as follows
I.
Intervener is an unincorporated association and
is not, at present, a railroad subject to the Interstate
Commerce Act.
II.
That applicant proposes to, and desires to be
afforded an opportunity to, acquire said lines proposed
to be abandoned herein and to operate them as a common
carrier, and to organize a corporation,for the carrying
out of this proposal. Intervener has made a careful
investigation of the said lines and the traffic
potentiality thereof, and is of the firm opinion that it
can finance and operate said lines, giving needed
transportation service to the public, and at a profit
to the operator.
III.
That public convenience and necessity would be
subserved by the acquisition of said lines by this
intervener and the continued operation thereof as proposed
by it.
WHEREFORE, intervener prays for leave to
intervene herein, and to be treated as a party hereto,
with the right to have notice of and participation in
any further hearing or proceedings which may be had in
the matter.
Intervener further prays that if authority and
certificate is granted to applicant, permitting abandonment, condition be contained therein that the lines shall
be sold to any responsible person, firm, or corporation
offering to purchase the same for continued operation
and willing to pay not less than the net salvage value
thereof,
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DATED | May 14, 1945 |
| | PACIFIC COAST RAILROADING ASSOCIATION,
By J. M. McFadden
President |
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA | )
) SS.
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES | ) |
J. M. McFadden, being duly sworn, deposes and
says That he is President of Pacific Coast Railroading
Association, intervener in the above entitled proceeding;
that he makes this verification for and on its behalf;
that he has read the foregoing Petition of Pacific Coast
Railroading Association for leave to intervene, and knows
the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his
own knowledge, except as to matters which are therein
stated, upon Information or belief, and as to such matters
that he believes It to be true,
J. M. McFadden
Subscribed and sworn to
before me this _____ day of May, 1945
______________________________
Notary Public in and for the County
of Los Angeles, State of California.
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