Finance Docket No. 24745 THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY ABANDONMENT BETWEEN FARMINGTON, N. MEX., AND ALAMOSA AND ANTONITO, COLO.
Decided July 14, 1969
DENVER & R. G. W. R. CO. ABANDONMENT 539 Finance Docket No. 24745 ‘ THE DENVER AND RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COM PANY ABANDONMENT BETWEEN FARMINGTON, N. MEX., AND ALAMOSA AND ANTONITO, COLO. Decided July 14, 1969 t.In Finance Docket No. 24745, subject to specified conditions, present and future public convenience and necessity found to permit aban donment by The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company of that portion of its narrow gauge line of railroad between Farmington, N. Mex., and Antonito and Alamosa, Colo.
- In Docket No. 34843, The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company found not shown to have failed to provide transportation or reasonable facilities therefor. Complaint dismissed. Ernest Porter and John S. Walker for applicant-defendant. James D .Childress, Floyd Cross, Howard L. Frisbie, and Ralph B. Harlan for complainant and the State Corporation Commission of New Mexico. Robert Lee Kessler, Ralph Keull, and John L . McNeill for the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Colorado. Herbert M. Boyle, James I. Davidson, M . Carl Feather, Edward Hamilton, Philip F. Icke, LaV erne McKelvey, R. Franklin Mc- Kelvey, and Linville 1. Prell for railway labor organizations and other protestants. Report of the Commission Division 3, Commissioners Tuggle, Deason, and Hardin