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Re: SMART gets sued web digger help
Author: ron
Date: 03-20-2021 - 19:16
flip Wrote:
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> So you can abandon and railbank as a trail, or run
> a railroad, but not both. Interesting. Not
> unexpected, considering that trails in the
> backyard are just about as popular as railroads.
> If the lawyer has as many cases as claimed around
> the country, there must be some record of how
> successful they are.
>
> The cities and counties and the state should be
> parties too, since they're the ones who forced the
> trail to be in the rr r/w. Funny thing is that if
> payments must be made, they won't always be to the
> current adjacent landowner, if somebody else is
> the more direct successor to the original
> landowner.
>
> If the trail has to go away, that should make more
> room for double-tracking SMART. In the photo that
> leads the article, it sure looks like the trail is
> where a second track would go.
Web digger where are you? About a year and a half ago the issue of railroad easements reverting back to the original deed of trust owners was settled in a state Supreme Court case.They ruled in favor of the landowners. I don't remember the details.
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> So you can abandon and railbank as a trail, or run
> a railroad, but not both. Interesting. Not
> unexpected, considering that trails in the
> backyard are just about as popular as railroads.
> If the lawyer has as many cases as claimed around
> the country, there must be some record of how
> successful they are.
>
> The cities and counties and the state should be
> parties too, since they're the ones who forced the
> trail to be in the rr r/w. Funny thing is that if
> payments must be made, they won't always be to the
> current adjacent landowner, if somebody else is
> the more direct successor to the original
> landowner.
>
> If the trail has to go away, that should make more
> room for double-tracking SMART. In the photo that
> leads the article, it sure looks like the trail is
> where a second track would go.
Web digger where are you? About a year and a half ago the issue of railroad easements reverting back to the original deed of trust owners was settled in a state Supreme Court case.They ruled in favor of the landowners. I don't remember the details.
