rob216 wrote:Where do people get their information on some of this stuff? That's the first I have ever heard about ESPN working with New Hope on that track. Do some people make that stuff?Rob, if you're talking about the "Landsale Cluster", the information appears to be pretty solid.
rob216 wrote:And as with the rest of this topic, some people go way out of control on this stuff. Yes it would have been nice to save the tracks. But it all comes down to, who is going to pay for it? Who has the money to save it?Regional Rail is a business. East Penn was a business owned by a railfan who was also a locomotive engineer. Regional wants to make money. John wanted to make money, but he also wanted to run trains. I wish that things would have worked out differently with regards to him having to sell....
Personally, I believe that if the government was serious about a transportation policy, they'd enact some sort of legislation that would allow for rail lines to be saved, instead of abandoned. Sure, there's a form of railbanking that exists, but that usually just preserves the ROW and once the trail people take over, it's tough to put rails back down.
We have greenspace preservation acts where farmers get paid to keep their farms as farms. Maybe we need an ironspace preservation act, to keep railroads as railroads.
JimE
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