S. Featuring thousands of miles of abandoned railroad routes in North America, illustrated with maps, pictures, and history.
that's also including older people who just simply won't ever go to that area, young people have far higher rates, if you're walking through 4 miles of bad areas to the point of walking down abandoned train tracks, i'd imagine your rate is about to sky rocket, as most people will not be in the.
This map includes abandoned and out-of-service railroad lines worldwide.
so there&39;s a 2 chance of being the victim of one, PER YEAR.
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Before deregulation, 38,000 miles of track were abandoned in the 45 years from 1930 to 1975.
Built between 1906 and 1911, the railroad stretches 101 miles across the center of Oregon, all the way to the west coast, terminating in in Tillamook.
Between 1950 and 2000, 79,300 road-miles were abandoned, which left the rail system with 144,500 miles of road-miles in 2000, a mileage similar to the mid-1880s.
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The last time I was back in Iowa, we were paralleling the old Burlington Northern nee CB&Q tracks north of Humeston, Iowa in Wayne County where I grew up.
so there&39;s a 2 chance of being the victim of one, PER YEAR.
May 27, 2015 Additional sections of railroad are abandoned every year.
But tens of thousands seems like a reasonable estimate.
