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Local town codes require at least a 25ft pavement width within a 50ft wde right of way. The pavement can wander back and forth within the right of way so long as there remains room for required improvements such as drainage ditches, etc. The limits to the right of way are often seen on the ground such as rock walls, icl. remnants of rock walls (white glue and pebbles), barbed wire fences, incl. remnants (bulbous tree trunks having long overgrown the wire that was stapled across it). Locally this describes former pasture, wether or not the former pasture is still open or has been overgrown. <br />Rural Maine roads are rarely sraight, but usually wander left, right, up and down, due to lots for rain/snow and usually good drainage, gullies, small streams, etc. The paved roads usually have a crown of about 8 - 12" across the 25ft span. If unoaved, thery're beat on, with pot hols and wash-board pattern. Most areas have lots of gravel deposits, since this is glacier scoured topography with boulders, rock, sand and open gravel pit industries. <br />Consider the Yahoo group MEC_RR or MECRR, dedicated to just the MEC. There are many very knowledgeable people on the list, some former MEC employees and some who model just the 1960's. <br />Good luck. Paul Boulay Wells, ME
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