I believe it! If my failing memory serves, when I went through there the last time around Thanksgiving, the light rail tracks did not follow the old Santa Fe...
... I share the romantic image of tarfh in reguards to abandoned railroads. I wish that the abandoned roads could be left as is until economic forces again...
It is indeed very interesting to see how many railroad signs and signals still remain, even when the line hasn't seen a train in decades. Many towns just ...
There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: Bike Trails From: "pstephentriad" Message: 1 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:16:09 -0000 From:...
"there would be more railroads and less trucks on the highway if the government spent as much money on the rails as the roads..." Truthfully, they probably...
Wisconsin reserves the right to acquire abandoned or abandoning lines, realizing that these are irreplaceable. In many cases they lease them out to new...
... until ... railroads I ... Bike Trails run both ways (no pun intended). I am all for preserving unused corridors as trails. As tarfh said it a bike trail...
A friend was in the process of taking over a line to be abandoned and the Rails To Trails people approached him and convinced him that he needed to rail bank...
I thought that by definition Rail Banking meant that the right of way is "donated" to a public entity such as a county or state, thereby relieving the railroad...
... I think you are right. That is how Maryland has worked it. In some cases the tracks are still there, buried under roads and tall grass, but they are...
Ran across this the other day...I live a few miles away and you can still see parts of the right of way from HWY 395. http://www.randsburg-railway.com/ Lurker...
<<Topo maps seem to take a long time to get updated; even when they are photo-revised (purple tint) they still miss some things. For a real relic, check out...
I don't know about Maryland, but hear in Alabama NS "rail banked" the Central of Georgia Columbus, GA to Birmingham line for about 4 or 5 years in the mid to...
... Wow. Sounds like ground for a lawsuit. Doesn't surprise me any though, some of those "well-intentioned" people can really stab ya in the back!! ...
... wrote: ... Anyone know of any examples of lines that had once been abandoned but now have returned to service? Probably lots of light rail in urban areas...
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:28:18 -0800 (PST) From: "George William \(Bill\) Newport" Subject: Re: Digest Number 292 A friend was in the process of...
Tarfh, I think you are on to something. American Railroading is in its 177th year. Many railroads built amusements parks along their lines. There is an auto...
Sounds like legal action should be brought against this rails to trails group. But they probably have something buried in fine print somewhere that says that...
I live in the Bay Area of Northern California, and I can think of several instances where lines have been abandoned and are now back in use. In 1984, Southern...
The Adirondack Scenic Railroad is another good example of an abandoned line restored for tourist operation. http://www.drydentidbits.com/adirondack/history/...
What's the name of the RTT group? Mike ... _________________________________________________________________ Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the...
ATTEMPT TO RESCUE A FORMER LEHIGH VALLEY U-BOAT: The Sayre Historical Society is attempting to acquire one of the 12 former Lehigh Valley Railroad U23B...
The Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad of Marion, Illinois has a small example of abandonded trackage being put back into reveune service. There is about a one...
I'm not convinced on this movement yet. It's a very sizeable and *very* clique-y bunch of people, and they've done the existing trails and they want *more*...
Re: "And notice how the RTT bunch hardly bothers to even tell the history of the lines they convert! They're into themselves, not history." Not always. Take a...
Interesting to note that when UP abandoned the Alturas-Wendel CA segment of the old SP "Modoc line," a Modoc County Supervisor stood up to fight it saying that...
This is a continuation of my previous post... didn't want one long one when two would do! From the minutes of the Friday, Feb 28, 2003 Bureau of Land ...
