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Courts have applied state laws, federal laws, and federal land court rulings to resolve RS 2477 claims. Recent examples of failed attempts to assert RS 2477 rights on private property are Galli v. Idaho County (Case Number CV 36692, Second Judicial District of Idaho, 2006) [10] and Ramey v.
Right of way drawing of U.S. Route 25E for widening project, 1981 Right of way highway marker in Athens, Georgia Julington-Durbin Peninsula power line right of way. A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.
Railroad easement. Utility easement, including: Storm drain or storm water easement. An easement to carry rainwater to a river, wetland, detention pond, or other body of water. Sanitary sewer easement. An easement to carry used water to a sewage treatment plant. Electrical power line easement. Telephone line easement. Fuel gas pipe easement ...
A transition curve (also, spiral easement or, simply, spiral) is a spiral-shaped length of highway or railroad track that is used between sections having different profiles and radii, such as between straightaways and curves, or between two different curves.
General Land Office Easements (also known as "government land office easements," and "GLO easements") were legal mechanisms which created right of way to ensure future access through, and to the interior of, lots or parcels created by the U.S. Small Tract Act of 1938, (52 Stat. 609, amended 1948, 62 Stat. 476; Not to be confused with the much later "Small Tracts Act" of 2002 which is ...
The railroad industry on Friday sued to block new environmental rules in California, arguing they would force the premature retirement of about 25,000 diesel-powered locomotives across the country ...
In the United States, railbanking was established in 1983 as an amendment to Section 8(d) of the National Trails System Act. It is a voluntary agreement between a railroad company and a trail sponsor (such as a trail organization or government agency) to use an out-of-service rail corridor as a trail until a railroad might need the corridor again for rail service.
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways , closed railways , former railway lines , or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage.