Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> writes: can mean two legally different things: > "out of service" > "abandoned (tracks present)"
Sorry, I didn't explain these: "out of service" means the railroad chooses not to run trains. But they might change their mind. "abandonment" is a big legal step, where the land might revert to the people that owned it before the railroad, and the railroad is really really done with it. In the US, this has to be approved by the Surface Transportation Board. See http://www.abandonedrails.com/Watertown_Branch for an example.
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