On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 5:07 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> If you were complaining that the trail isn't there then I'd understand, > and you'd have my full support for adding it. But complaining instead > that the abandoned railway isn't there...? > They're often prominent features, especially in rural areas, as these can be *highly* visible decades after the land use changes, sometimes by something as subtle as how crops grow on them, due to the much higher soil compaction and use of herbicidal compounds to support and keep the line clear when it was an active railroad and can be readily used to orient yourself to if you have a map of the area that makes note of it. There's an inordinately large number of abandoned railroads in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and adjacent parts of New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas (within my travels, what seems like about a 100+ mile wide swath from Gunnison, CO to Guymon, OK) that are north of 100 miles long that are sometimes not much more than a graded spot nothing grows on unless deliberately cultivated, and maybe not even then without some noticeable stunting.
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