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? Abandoned RR where they just left everything?

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:16 AM

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You don't pick up the track if the line has a negative salvage value.

Or, it's not really abandoned, just not in use.  Don't take an souveniers.

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Posted by nanaimo73 on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:12 AM

I've heard that there are rusted out locomotives of the Dolly Varden Mines Railway still sitting on the rails, almost 90 years after the narrow gauge mining railway shut down. This is north of Prince Rupert, near Hyder Alaska.

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Posted by bobwilcox on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:18 AM

 You don't pick up the track if the line has a negative salvage value.

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Posted by ericsp on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:31 AM

The Northwestern Pacific Railroad/North Coast Railroad Authority practically, but not technically, fits that. 

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? Abandoned RR where they just left everything?
Posted by Boyd on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:11 AM

I think its happened in the past but not sure where a RR was abandoned tracks and all and nothing sold, scrapped or liquidated.

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