by l008com
I have a hypothetical question.
Lets say there's a long abandoned rail line that is being turned into a rail trail. What happens to all of the interesting artifacts when this happens? Particularly signage but also other things along the route? I assume that anything that isn't left as a piece of interest, it just ultimately thrown in a dumpster and trashed right? Does the owner of the ROW have anything to do this this process? What if the owner is the local town? What if the owner is that states rail authority?
So lets get to where you know this thread is going...
Hypothetically, if this stuff is just going to be trashed, could it fairly/legally be picked? Could I realistically get permission from the ROW owner, and then pic any of it?
End-hypothetical.
And as a little reward, here's a super cool double grade crossing, obviously not the one that inspired my hypothetical questions:
https://goo.gl/maps/TRRxKwE48ov" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Lets say there's a long abandoned rail line that is being turned into a rail trail. What happens to all of the interesting artifacts when this happens? Particularly signage but also other things along the route? I assume that anything that isn't left as a piece of interest, it just ultimately thrown in a dumpster and trashed right? Does the owner of the ROW have anything to do this this process? What if the owner is the local town? What if the owner is that states rail authority?
So lets get to where you know this thread is going...
Hypothetically, if this stuff is just going to be trashed, could it fairly/legally be picked? Could I realistically get permission from the ROW owner, and then pic any of it?
End-hypothetical.
And as a little reward, here's a super cool double grade crossing, obviously not the one that inspired my hypothetical questions:
https://goo.gl/maps/TRRxKwE48ov" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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