[Imports-us] Rail USA

[Paul Norman]

On 12/31/2014 1:48 PM, stevea wrote:
> That is true, thank you Nathan Proudfoot.  For the Union Pacific, I 
> was disappointed that their web site requires a (UP employee?) login 
> and password to gain access to their geographic rail data.  BNSF seems 
> a bit better (providing "high level" rail maps at a nationwide 
> glance), and other railroads are probably somewhere around "you get 
> what you get," but please do take Nathan's good advice and seek data 
> directly from a rail entity as a good first strategy for obtaining 
> track/lead/line/subdivision names, for example.
In my experience these types of companies seldom provide anything under 
a usable license - is this different for US-based rail company databases?