[Talk-us] One of the strangest TIGER screwups I've seen

[Phil! Gold]

* Mike N <niceman at att.net> [2011-10-23 14:24 -0400]:
>   I don't know why it didn't come in as railway=abandoned, but it
> sounds like a rails-to-trails trail now.

In my experience, railway data in TIGER is much less likely to be up
to date than road data, presumably because census workers need to visit
people that live along roads, but railways are just convenient reference
points.  There are railroad rights-of-way in Maryland that were
abandoned in the 1970s, complete with pulling up the rails, but were
still listed as active in TIGER.