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why don t railroads leave track in place when they abandon rails?
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[quote user="Prairietype"][quote user="Railway Man"] <p>Professionally I have had a principal role in the reactivation of several abandoned or embargoed lines with and without track in place. In all cases the cost of rehabilitating the existing track structure was virtually the same as new, or even exceeded new (so we scraped it off and started over). </p><p>RWM </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Just curious: what's a ballpark figure of the cost per mile to rehab of a fairly deteriorated but not hopeless right-of-way or railbed?</p><p> </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>There was a leingthy thread on this a while back, here's the link.</p><p><a href="/TRC/CS/forums/1270285/ShowPost.aspx">http://www.trains.com/TRC/CS/forums/1270285/ShowPost.aspx </a></p>
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