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The government is supporting an appeal to the federal court in conjunction with the Cudworth local governments to have a previous CTA decision not requiring reclamation costs to be included in the net salvage value. The provincial government is taking steps to ensure reclamation costs are included in the net salvage value under the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA). Recent court cases have strongly reinforced the authority of municipal governments to set reclamation bylaws. Municipal bylaws come into effect when the railway files for abandonment and the regulatory body, either federal or provincial, authorizes the railway to cease operations. The province or municipalities cannot enforce laws or bylaws against CN or CP as operating federal railways. The jurisdiction for land use, zoning, tidiness and safety are a local jurisdiction under municipal acts. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the original owner be responsible for putting the railway right-of-way back into its original state. WHEREAS, a number of abandoned rail lines have been left in an unsafe and unsightly condition Saskatchewan Broadband Action Committee.Bridge and Large Diameter Culvert Initiative.Municipal Leadership Development Program.Rural Municipal Administrator Scholarship Program.Rural Municipal Administrator Internship Program.The video title is "Abandoned Railroads of Massachusetts - Billerica & Bedford". You can watch my video on the abandoned Billerica & Bedford railroad on my YouTube Channel (jph0917). The narrow line went east of Billerica Center up the steeper grade of town hill. "When the B&M replaced the old narrow line with a standard line, they deviated to the west of Billerica Center because the grade was better. Jim Haines sent us this email last year regarding the line. A lot of railroad history is no longer visible in the real world, which is part of why this project exists in the first place. It was not a spur of the mainline, it was the mainline before the Boston, Lowell & Nashua Railroad rebuilt the right of way in 1885, which became the Boston & Maine Railroad.Īdditionally, there is a bit more visible on aerial imagery from 1938, the earliest of which is available on Historic Aerials. Its 2' narrow-gauge alignment was only active between 1877-79, which is why hardly any trace remains of it today.
The right of way you're referring to is the Bedford & Billerica Railroad, one of the earliest abandonments in Massachusetts. But I cannot find it anywhere, even when I go there in person. And being so familiar with this area, I was sort of excited to discover this new line. I'm really not trying to waste anybody's time. Both on Google Street View and on satellite images. Yet look at the main line and you'll see clear visual evidence at every single road crossing there is. The thing is, there is not the slightest bit of evidence of this spur at any crossing or on any satellite map. until it comes back almost back to the main line. It supposedly then crosses "Dolan Road", then the "Middlesex Turnpike", "Fardon St" "Glad Valley Road", "Boston Road" etc. The very first road it crosses is "Hattie Lane". Accordiing to this map, there is a spur that bears off to the right, just North of Route 3. I have run on that line (now it's a dirt trail) many times. It is a spur off the Narrow-gauge rail line that heads North from Bedford MA.
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