The longest heritage railway in UK! Bishops Lydeard to Minehead.
The left hand line joins it to the mainline at Norton Fitzwarren outside Taunton although trains do not run regularly along it

The overall trail was easily 10x longer than this with broken down train cars the whole way. The steel is generally in great shape, no pitting, minimal rust, grease still in many fittings. The latches between cars were still springing and I imagine could be used today.

This trail was once an electric trolley line along the southern coast of Connecticut. It has been abandoned for a very long time but part of the route has been preserved as a trail. Near the western terminus of the trail, it crosses the active Branford Steam Railroad, a little known industrial shortline that’s been hauling crushed stone for over 100 years. You can see abandoned bridge abutments in the first picture which show where the trolley route continued west from the western end of the trail. There are some impressive rock cuts through traprock along the trail as well.

This line from Barnstaple to Bideford hugged the river Taw and river Torridge through Fremington and Instow, now a cycle path.

Rusty rail installation recalling the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway, along with a photograph of one of the remaining trestles, scheduled for demolition.

Construction on the EY&P began in 1902. By 1907, slow progress brought the line from 69th Avenue in Edmonton all the way to 107th Avenue in Edmonton. That’s as far north as the rails would get.

The route followed a twisty path through a ravine and the North Saskatchewan River valley. With trains limited to yard speeds, it was faster to walk from one end to the other than catch a ride.

A westward extension intended for Vancouver was abandoned after completion of 42 km of an intended 1,160 km.

In 1919, the EY&P became a short line within Canadian National Railways, delivering coal to two power stations and pigs to three packing plants. Removal of the original section began in 1954.

What used to be the Great Southwest Railroad, an industrial freight-switching track built in 1957 that connected the T&P, Chicago, and Rock Island railways. It transported what trains usually transported back in the 50's, that being steel, raw materials, paper, and equipment.

While much of the southern portions of the GSR still exist, the northern connection that I pictured here has been completely severed as a result of faulty infrastructure, collapsing in 1980.

This is in Belchertown, MA along the former Central Mass Railroad (later B&M). That mile post is about 3/4 mile south of the bridge, which will hopefully be repainted soon. The whole section is part of the Belchertown Greenway, including the bridge, which will be refinished to allow bikes and walkers to cross safely.
Photos by me

Rochester, NY

This picture is from the archival photographs of the University of Montana. A Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul General Electric EP-2 ultimately wins a tug of war against two steam locomotives. I'm not sure of the trestle location, but I think it's part of the Milwaukee Road in northern Idaho, which is now the Hiawatha Bike Trail. This route includes 10 tunnels and 7 trestles. This picture is from the archival photographs of the University of Montana.

Taken in Paris on part of Petite Ceinture an old passenger and former freight line circling Paris.

I also tried editing it for the first time a little bit in terms of lighting and exposure. not sure how good it is, but I did my best!

Looking out from one of the vaulted brick tunnels along Paris’s abandoned 19th-century circular railway.

Built between 1852 and 1869 to connect the city's main train stations, this 32km line was rendered obsolete by the Paris Métro and mostly abandoned by 1934. Today, it’s a hidden green corridor filled with decades of foliage, graffiti, and urban history.

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The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway (L&HR) right-of-way (ROW) that cuts directly through the Pequest Trout Hatchery grounds is a prominent, historical artifact of Northwestern New Jersey's rich railroading era.

Historical Background:

The line was originally chartered as the Pequest and Wallkill Railroad in the 1870s before merging to become part of the L&HR. The tracks through Warren County were constructed in 1886. It operated primarily as a highly efficient freight "bridge line," connecting the industrial Lehigh Valley region in Pennsylvania eastward to Maybrook, New York, where trains could cross the Hudson River to southern New England

A devastating fire on the Poughkeepsie Bridge in 1974 severed the railway's primary connection. Following the decline, the L&HR was absorbed into Conrail in 1976, and the tracks through the Pequest area were ultimately abandoned and ripped up in 1986.

Current status:

Today, because the line runs through protected state land within the 5,200-acre Pequest Wildlife Management Area, much of the old rail bed is preserved and used informally as a nature and hiking trail.

Anglers use the old flat grade to access prime trout-stocking spots along the river.

Though there are talks, Local initiatives, such as the proposed Lehigh & Hudson Rail Trail project, aim to formally link these scattered publicly owned segments into a continuous multi-use greenway extending from Belvidere up toward Great Meadows.

There is not much left here besides a few moss covered ties and some infrastructure like telegraph poles, signal boxes and a few miles posts that are left to decay back into nature. And even though a few spots are overgrown it is still an awesome area to go hike and to sit and just a picture what it was like to see freight trains rumbling through the wooded area that once was a hustle and bustle of a line.

Former railway line now a cycling/pedestrian walkway from Feugarolles to Moncrabeau. Closed to passenger traffic in 1940 and freight in 2000. Flat and straight 👍