My cousin had a rail run threw his place that they abandoned, It was a single track so the right of way was only 75 feet. As in most lines that are abandoned they were not maintained and overgrown with trees and brush and wildlife called it home. He cleared the old fence lines trees and brush off and leveled off part of the old line two make 2 fields into one again. His yields went up and the ground was dryer as the dam had been removed and the natural drainage resumed. No more ground hogs and no more deer hiding spots and no more trees sucking up the moisture from his crops.
Other sections were cleared off re-graded and he now stores round bales on the old gravel road bed and says he looses very little hay because it keeps the water away from the hay. Other parts of the old line became short cuts to other fields. There was a lot of gravel rock and cinders we moved and used else ware on the farm.
There are companies that will buy right of ways from the rail roads simply to strip them. More scrap metal there than you would think, There maybe timber to sell, large building stones from old culverts and tons of stone and gravel to be sold. Its cheaper to take an end loader and scrap up gravel than it is to dig it out of the ground. How many tons of gravel do you think are in a mile? More than you think. And when there done they can sell it to adjoining property owner for what they gave for it or more. Bandit
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