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

[Alex Mauer]

Greg Troxel wrote:
> Someone said railway=abandoned, but there are three separate things --
> my opinion is partly from USGS topo maps:
> 
> * 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)

What's the difference between "out of service" and "abandoned"?  I
assume the distinction is in how often the railway is used.  I know of
some rail lines near me that are classified in the TIGER import as
abandoned (not even out-of-service) , but which still have trains run on
them occasionally (or even fairly often)

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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