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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by FJ and G The Anti Gates A).. Depends on your definition of "public good." Years, decades, actually a century or more (most likely) when the land was used for the railroad, it was deemed in the public's interest. Most of the original landowners have been dead for a long long time. B)...To make use of the RR now for the linear space reasons I listed, would, of course depend on how one values the land for the public's good. [/quote] A) well, many farms are family businesses, so you are actually pitting the interests of the Farm business which exists now, versus the interest of some short line that may or may not ever materialize. Seems like a "bird in the hand" type consideration to me. B) "public's good"...ha ha , you are a funny man. If such an operation were to materialize, it would probably be privately held, expect huge taxpayer subsidies and property tax abatement, and benefir only a couple weathy line side business operators (grain elevators etc) with the taxpayer helping to get that rich dude's corn to market cheaply. with some hollow promise that (ahem) "Someday this line might attract industry and create jobs" (/ahem) "Preservation" has become quite the racket for some con artists. Hey, I'm not saying I am "anti biketrails".....nor am I "anti railbank".....both strategies have their place. But I don't think that a farmer reclaiming land that is going to waste automatically makes him the bad guy, either. After all the STB must have not seen any serious "greater common good" issues when deciding to allow the abandonment in the first place, or they would have had to reckon with it then,....right. What I can say is that if I were such a farmer (as mentioned above) and had a buncha big dreaming nostalgists trying to block my real use of said land citing "greater common good" pipe dreams... only 2 words come to mind that describe how I would feel... TARGET PRACTICE... [:D]
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