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| Author: | Ken Middlebrook [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Rails to Trail - Linear Parks |
The Rails to Trails effort can provide new interpretive opportunities of our rail history. Here in San Jose, I have been working with two separate efforts on different sections of the Western Pacific Railroad line in our community. This link is a nice overview of nine linear parks that have transformed their communities. https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/22/158470 ... inear-park Getting involved with similar efforts can lead to positive community relationships/exposure for our museums. Ken |
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| Author: | Jdelhaye [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rails to Trail - Linear Parks |
Ken Middlebrook wrote: The Rails to Trails effort ........ Ken sorry Ken, But I stopped reading after those 5 blasphemous words...…. |
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| Author: | airforcerail [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rails to Trail - Linear Parks |
We just leased a line, and within days are already fending off a group wanting to make it a trail... I am a proponent of rail trails, when they are used as intended. However these more frequent attacks on active lines are getting out of hand... |
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| Author: | EWrice [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 2:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rails to Trail - Linear Parks |
For those that can have an open mind, and not draw a line in the sand so quickly, some pretty creative things can happen that benefit both sides. I know of one group that "sold" a long term lease of an easment along their tracks to the state for use as a bikepath. The trains still run, the bikers still ride, and it brought in a BIG chunk of change for the railroad. Not everything has to be so black and white. |
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| Author: | PaulWWoodring [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rails to Trail - Linear Parks |
EWrice wrote: For those that can have an open mind, and not draw a line in the sand so quickly, some pretty creative things can happen that benefit both sides. I know of one group that "sold" a long term lease of an easment along their tracks to the state for use as a bikepath. The trains still run, the bikers still ride, and it brought in a BIG chunk of change for the railroad. Not everything has to be so black and white. That can be true, and it is possible for both to co-exist. However, most of the time the trails people want it all for themselves and will fight to the death to tear up the rails. |
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| Author: | Randy Hees [ Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Rails to Trail - Linear Parks |
At the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City, we share a bit of our right of way over Railroad Pass with a trail, (https://rivermountainstrail.org/) including two grade crossings. We are in planning to bring a spur of that trail onto our right of way with a third crossing, and onto our museum site, in part to serve as a public trail through the half mile long museum. In our case it is specifically a "Rails and Trails" project. The trail community has been supportive, and with their support and in one case through them we have received two planning grants totaling $118,000. Beyond the River Mountain Loop Trail, and our Boulder City Railroad Trail, the trail connects with one completed trail (the UP Railroad Trail) along a City owned industrial lead, and a "to be built (fully funded) Harry Reid trail along a UP industrial spur... it totals about 52 miles of paved bike trail. The experience has been universally positive. Randy |
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