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Posted by kenny dorham on Monday, July 27, 2020 1:54 PM

Thank You..... that was the other one i was thinking of... Tennessee Pass. I just wonder. It becomes obvoius that certain right of ways will NEVER be used again, yet they just sit and rot.

I suppose it could be hard to sell several miles of trackage. What would a developer do with 10 miles of land that is only 20 yards (if that is the case) wide.?

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Posted by SD70Dude on Sunday, July 26, 2020 11:59 PM

Once it's gone, it can't come back.  And though rust never sleeps, railroads can be rebuilt.

A number of lines were abandoned or at minimum severed as through routes during the 'bad old days' of the 1970s and 80s, only for the railroads to regret those actions years later as traffic patterns shifted or increased. 

In the cases of Tennessee Pass and Saluda, the railroads actually learned from their previous mistakes, a rare occurrence. 

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Abandoned Track
Posted by kenny dorham on Sunday, July 26, 2020 11:50 PM

For example, Saluda.

Why do railroads frequently hang onto right of ways that they have no plans to ever use again....and tracks that have been given back to nature for the most part.

Why don't they sell or tax donate those scenarios.?

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