[Talk-us] bike rail trail as built vs as proposed and imported

[Russ Nelson]

On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> * out of service (disused=yes above)
>   [tracks present, no trains, but not abandoned]
>
> * abandoned (this is a legal distinction in the US)
>
> * old railroad grade (beyond abandoned, where there are no longer  
> tracks)


My criteria is: if there are still rails in place, then it's  
railway=disused; and if the tracks are gone but you can still see  
evidence of it then it's railway=abandoned.  If it's been bulldozed  
into nonexistance, then it's railway:historical=abandoned.

There are other tags which indicate whether the right-of-way is usable  
for passage and by whom.

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