Railbanking is the practice of preserving rail corridors for possible future use. Railbanking leaves the railroad, railbed, bridges or bridge corridor...

in order to preserve these corridors and create public trails. The "railbanking" provisions of this legislation allowed disused railroad corridors to...

by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in the late 1970s for railbanking purposes, with ownership transferring to NJ Transit upon its creation...

right-of-way from South Sudbury to the Framingham line, and Sudbury became the railbanking trail sponsor for this section in December 2020. In December 2022, Framingham...

advocacy group to convert the right-of-way into a rail-trail (called railbanking) must be submitted within 30 days, while any financial assistance offers...

Arlington, near Uncle Sam Plaza in front of the Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. Railbanking of the line was first proposed in 1974, three years before passenger...

running but does not initiate the legal abandonment process on its own. Railbanking is a legal maneuver that avoids full abandonment, preserving a railroad...

with the federal government passing legislation promoting the use of railbanking for abandoned railroad corridors in 1983 which was upheld by the U.S...

Park. Railbanking. Rather than abandoning railroad routes and losing the right-of-way easements, railroads agree to a legal process called railbanking, which...

terminus in Clinton at mile-marker 264.6. The Katy Trail is part of the U.S. railbank, which means it must remain connected to the national railway network so...

Retrieved June 14, 2022. Great Redwood Trail | Feasibility, Governance, and Railbanking Report (PDF) (Report). California State Parks. July 2020. Frederiksen...

Jefferson City, which would sever the route and possibly eliminate the railbank protections and allow the right of way to revert to adjacent property owners...

Department of Transportation purchased most of the line from Guilford for railbanking purposes. In 1991, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act...

a ballot measure, Measure D, was put on the ballot to authorize the railbanking of the Santa Cruz Branch for an "interim trail"; it failed after an overwhelming...

is not railbanking because the MBTA neither began the required precondition of abandonment nor consented to the optional process of railbanking. In 2014...

section from Voorheesville, New York, to Albany. Albany County filed a railbanking application, and purchased the right-of-way in 2009. Railways portal...

around downtown Astoria for possible future use, an action known as "railbanking". The remaining 92-mile (148 km) section of the Portland–Astoria line...

recreational trail and created the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail, under a railbanking arrangement. This process was completed in May 2023. The State of Vermont...

development of its commuter and light rail systems and its efforts to railbank unused corridors, and also assisted MTA in compliance matters before the...

of Sudbury reached a railbanking agreement with CSX. In December 2023, the town of Framingham reached a replacement railbanking agreement with the Georgetown...

MARC train stations in the Eastern Panhandle, and helping to preserve or railbank lines targeted for abandonment. The Division of Public Transit helps assist...

Clinton. The agreement stipulated that the trail would be operated as a railbank and according to the desires of the railroad. In 2004, the United States...

line between Voorheesville and Albany. In 2009, Albany County filed a railbanking application and purchased the Right-of-Way, transforming the entire length...

permission under the National Trails System Act (16 USC§1241 et seq.) to "railbank" their portion of the grade from the Belfast waterfront at Pierce Street...

Railway Board agreed to ask the federal Surface Transportation Board to railbank 33 miles of the Platte Line between Tyndall and Ravinia. The remainder...