the owner of the property adjacent to the tracks. The railroad
operator typically has the right to use the land in perpetuity for the
railroad. So you typically would not have any right to be near a
railroad.
Congress passed a rails to trails act which actually allows the
government to take over abandoned railroad easements for hiking trails
without having to condemn the property or otherwise compensate the
property owner (i.e., the property owner still owns the land but
instead of having a rr easement across the property, now has a trail
easement).
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Mosey"
wrote:
enforced. But
> isn't all the land on either side of the tracks considered railroad
> property, and not really to be used by the public?