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WHEEEAS, the Seabce-~d 'Air Line RaiLroad Ccmpany has applied to <br />the Interstate Cu~.lerce C~ission and the State Corporation Ccem~ission <br />for permission to discontinue trains 17 and 18, which provide passenger <br />service between Portsmouth~ Virgi0ia, and Raleigh, North Carolina; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Portsmouth is aware of and sympathetic with <br />the problems experienced by the said railroad company in connection with <br />the operation of the aforesaid trains and the reasons bebiud the request <br />to discontinue this service; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the discontinuance of the said trs_ins would eliminate <br />the last ~ng r~]road passenger serVice to the City of Portsmouth. <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ~OLVED by t2~e Council of the City of <br />Portsmouth, Virgirda, that this body hereby reccr~nends and ~rges that <br />the Seaboard Air Line Failroad Company reconsider its decision to dis- <br />continue trains 17 and 18 with the view toward v~thdraw~h~g its request <br />for permission ~o discontinue such service. <br /> <br /> BE IT ~ RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be for- <br /> warded to the Seaboard Air L&ne Railroad, ~the ~Interetate Ccz~uerce <br /> Commission and the State Corporation Cc~mission.' <br /> <br /> Unanimously adopted by the Council' of the. City of Portsmouth, <br /> Virginia, at a meeting held July 26, 1966. <br /> <br /> Teste: <br /> <br />City Clerk <br /> <br /> <br />