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The official Rails to Trails Conservancy book for New York is a good start. Basically, they have about half the trails described reasonably well, with an appendix mentioning all the other trails they didn't get to. I've ridden the Oswego Recreational Trail http://russnelson.com/oswego-recreational-t...

Fortunately, the maps that were included with the story are more than accurate, but my text is out there forever and ever to confound and confuse future generations. That's why you publish your book pointing to a website for 1) color photos and 2) errata. Color costs nothing more online, but tons m...

I see that there are only 104 views of that page so far. Maybe that means that the check I sent today will guarantee me a seat in front of the other six people who have no idea where to send their checks?
-russ

I don't have any photos yet. It is ridable by ATV or mtn bike. I plan to bike it this summer; at least north from Inman aka Loon Lake Station.

I have made a database of ghost railroads in New York State. I plan to add information about the status of the rail lines, but for right now I just have the locations. Click on the 'WWW' link below.

NASA's World Wind is also useful as an earth viewer. Plus, you can use it to view my database of New York State railroad routes (built, graded, in service, and abandoned). Click on my 'WWW' link below.

We've got a website ( http://rutlandtrail.org/ ) for the Rutland Trail in Northern New York. It's appropriate for ATVs, snowmobiles, and mountain bikes. Unfortunately broken in two places by missing bridges (Winthrop and North Lawrence), there are nearby road bridges which serve as a work-around. Th...

Heck, check these forums for page-long threads debating sections of ROW... Exactly. That's why I want to make it work more like a wiki, only instead of editing text, the user would edit structured text associated with stretches of raillbed. If I do it that way, I'll create an interface using Google...

Best is what you want to do and say. Pick a year for reference then draw your map that way. I want to create a resource for making maps; not a single map. Thus, I want to associate a build / dismantle date for each section of track. Yes, I realize that 's a tall order. Why dream small? Eventually I...

Hi. I've been working for about a year on a database of every railroad route in New York State. I"ve been struggling with a number of issues: What to call each track? In general I've named them by their last non-Conrail name, or by the chapter number in Kudish's Railroads of the Adirondacks. Th...

One thing that would be nice is if someone could piece them together to make one flowing topo map that isn't divided into zones. I'm working on that project. It will take me a few years to finish. First I need to gather ground reference points for each map. Then I need to clip the collars and stitc...

isnt there anyone that prints up a nice big NY state map with railroads both in service and out of service lines as well as roads and highways? I have the data to do that. What would you be willing to pay (printing poster size in color isn't cheap)? Also see http://russnelson.com/nyrr/ -- feel free...

My understanding of the issue of taking photographs of things which can be publicly viewed is that there is no law against it. Various facilities managers may feel differently. The question here seems to be: do you need to be pollite to government officials given that you pay their salaries and they...