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CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) requested approval from the Surface Transportation Board to let certain temporary trackage rights, currently in effect, expire once a construction project in the Howard Street Tunnel is complete and the tunnel is reopened. CSXT has been using Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) tracks as alternate routes while the tunnel undergoes construction to allow double-stack train passage. The board agreed to CSXT's request, meaning the temporary rights will end once the project is completed, which will allow CSXT to resume its normal routes. This decision supports efficient regulation and does not negatively impact market power or shipping services.

Norfolk Southern Railway Company (NSR) filed a petition requesting permission for the trackage rights granted by CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) to expire as per their agreement. These trackage rights, over a 95-mile rail line, were intended to reroute NSR's traffic while CSXT's Howard Street Tunnel (HST) in Baltimore undergoes construction. The Surface Transportation Board (STB) decided to grant NSR's petition, allowing the trackage rights to end once the HST project is completed and NSR resumes using its original route through the tunnel. The decision includes measures to protect employees affected by the change in trackage rights.