MONONGAHELA CONNECTING RR CO. v. PUC.

No. 1843 C.D. 1978.

45 Pa.Commw. 164 (1979)

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, Petitioner v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

August 17, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. McCook Miller, Jr., with him Kenneth L. Salmon and Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Johnson & Hutchison, for petitioner.

James J. Kutz, with him Candace N. Kreiger, Assistant Counsel, John B. Wilson, Deputy Chief Counsel, and George M. Kashi, Chief Counsel, for respondent.

Thomas P. Shearer, for additional respondent.

Argued May 9, 1979, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., MENCER, BLATT, DiSALLE, CRAIG and MacPHAIL. Judges WILKINSON, JR. and ROGERS did not participate.


OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, August 17, 1979:

Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company (Railroad) brings this appeal from an order of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) directing the Railroad to install an occupational block signal at the approaches of a blind curve on a railroad track within the Jones and Laughlin Steel plant at Pittsburgh. Following a head-on collision by two trains on the high grade eastbound track at the blind curve location, these...

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