What is the railway trail?
As a smaller, shorter branches of the main railways, they became impracticable to maintain economically, railway companies consolidated their lines and short branches were outdated and abandoned. In an effort to use these lines for something useful and beneficial, the railway has become common in the United States and other countries. Also known as a linear park, a railway trail is any trail or a path that was built on a railway burden that is no longer used. In general, these are multipurpose trails and procure pedestrians, cyclists, mountain blinds and other recreationalists, usually excreting motorized operation.
The railway usually extends several kilometers in a straight line - therefore the appointment of linear park - because the railways were designed to cross the terrain on easy slopes and with several sharp curves; Therefore, trails that follow these old railways imitate these properties. Another name for the railway trail is Greenway becauseMany of these parks have cut the wooded area. It is not unusual to find a railway path that goes through historical areas, and many of these paths offer the history of the surroundings as one of its key features. The first railway trail opened in the United States was the Elroy-Sparta State Trail in Wisconsin, which was opened in 1965. Since then, Rails-to-Trails Conservance, a non-profit group based in Washington, D.C. It transformed hundreds of kilometers of abandoned railway lines into hiking and other outdoor activities.
The railway may vary from length from only a mile or less to a hundred miles (161 km). The longest railway trail in the United States is Katy Trail in Missouri, which extends 225 miles (362 km). The nature and length of the trail depends on different issues, the most important of which are land rights and the ability to effectively convert railways into trails. By menNits are against railway trails due to increased operation, reduced security and other unforeseen problems.
further, because the railways were often based on a combination of land, federal land and easements - or special rights to use land owned by another entity without explicit permission of this entity - it may be difficult to obtain permission to transfer railways to trails. Some of the agreements and deeds for these countries were written several decades ago and even centuries ago, which further complicated the problem and made it difficult to make real estate boundaries.