Minh Nguyen writes: > On the ground, meanwhile, you'd tend to find no trespassing signs > on railbanked ROWs, no?
Railbanked railroads should always be tagged as railway=abandoned. The whole point is that they *haven't* been dismantled or razed or destroyed or whatever word you want to use for a railway that doesn't exist anymore. Legally, it's still a railroad right-of-way whether it has tracks or not. Even if a farmer has plowed it up, or someone has built a house on it, it's still legally a railroad right-of-way. Some dude in Whiteport, NY (right next to Whiteport School), thought that the railroad behind his house had been dismantled / destroyed / razed / whatever. He cut down the brush, and started mowing it. Eventually he put an above-ground swimming pool on it. Poor bastard now has a fence about five feet behind his house keeping him off the railroad right-of-way, now part of the Wallkill Valley Trail. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
