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Federal Railroad Rights of Way.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actions and defenses.
- Railroads.
- Right of property.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (21 pages, digital, PDF file)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2006.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Discusses the history of Federal railroad rights of way grants, the various forms such grants have taken, and provisions enacted by Congress to govern the disposition of railroad rights of way. Covers the legal nature of rights of way, conveyances by railroads, provisions of the Rails to Trails Act, and Fifth Amendment takings cases regarding whether the retention of non-operating railroad rights of way for use as recreational trails constitutes a taking entitling the landowners to just compensation.
- Notes:
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
- CRS Report.
- Other Format:
- Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Federal Railroad Rights of Way
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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