Washington, Feb. 12 – Permission to purchase control of the 600-mile line of the Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburgh Railway was given the Baltimore and Ohio system today by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

The Alleghany Corporation, present majority owner of the Buffalo line, will turn over to the Baltimore and Ohio 84 per cent. of the outstanding stock of the Buffalo line for $14,263,216.00.

Conditions to Approval
As conditions to its approval, the commission ordered the Baltimore and Ohio after the purchase to keep open all traffic routes now established by the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, to agree to purchase at arbitrated prices control of anything connecting short line which may be allocated to it, and to offer to minority holders in the Buffalo company the same price for their shares which the Alleghany Corporation will receive.

By the transaction, the commission said, the Baltimore and Ohio will be able to establish a new direct route over its own rails from Baltimore to Buffalo. In addition, by using the 80 miles of Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh line between Butler and DuBois, Pennsylvania, the Baltimore and Ohio with its own rails will be able to establish a new short line between Chicago and New York, passing north of Pittsburgh and reducing danger of congestion in the Pittsburgh area.

Objections Set Aside
Objections to the Baltimore and Ohio purchase of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh made by the Delaware and Hudson, the Wabash, and the Pittsburgh and the West Virginia railroads were set aside in the decision.

The merger of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh with the Baltimore and Ohio system was projected by the commission in the recent national plan for general railroad consolidation which it promulgated. Notwithstanding, its control was south by the objecting railroads named.