) The original right-of-way is now controlled by the Union Pacific, which purchased Southern Pacific in 1996.

* October 5 – The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Rail Road starts operations in Brooklyn, New York ; this is now the oldest right-of-way on the New York City Subway, the largest rapid transit system in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

The frog switch is now on public view in East Milton Square, Massachusetts, on the original right-of-way of the Granite Railway.

U. S. Route 101E ( east ) generally followed the right-of-way taken by today's I-880 from San Jose to Oakland, then across the Carquinez Bridge to follow what is now California State Route 37, joining US 101W.

In the first half of the 20th century ( 1 January 1900 – 31 December 1950 ), the line of the Sacramento Northern Railroad ran through Moraga ; much of the old right-of-way is now part of the popular Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail.

The railroad right-of-way is now the Paul Bunyan Trail.

Knowing that the approaching New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad ( now the Illinois Central Railroad ) would need a station for water and fuel, Prewett sold a right-of-way to the railroad company – for one dollar, according to legend – and divided a section of his plantation into town lots, which he sold to investors.

A portion of the right-of-way is now used as an access road to a cellphone tower, with spectacular views looking westward down to Dansville and its surrounding area.

Originally named " Havelock Station " in the late 1850s when the Atlantic and North Carolina railroad built a depot where its right-of-way crossed what is now Miller Boulevard in Havelock.

In late 1871 as the Houston and Texas Central Railway constructed the first railroad link to the Texas capital, James Manor made a donation of right-of-way which brought the line through what is now the town.

A nature park now exists where the railroad once had a station and yards, but the right-of-way is still discernible in some areas.

With the addition of Riverside Park South and Hudson River Park, created between Battery Park and 59th Street as part of the 1990s West Side Highway replacement, a continuous waterfront right-of-way for pedestrians and bicyclists now stretches the length of Manhattan from north to south.

The line opened in 1935 along the old Morris Canal right-of-way, from Broad Street ( now known as Military Park ) to Heller Parkway.

In 1872, the right-of-way was acquired by the Old Colony Railroad to connect the main line at Harrison Square with the Dorchester and Milton Branch Railroad, running from the Old Colony at Neponset, west to what is now Mattapan station.

The private right-of-way of the Central Park line, between Commercial Drive in Vancouver and New Westminster, is now used by the SkyTrain's Expo Line.

Likewise, the Millennium Line of the SkyTrain connects the same communities as the former Burnaby Lake Line ; however, the new SkyTrain line does not follow the original right-of-way, which is now the route of Highway 1 through Burnaby.

From Bedford the line ran on a surface private right-of-way several blocks south to Park Place, which it crossed at grade, and then in an open cut with street overpasses through what is now Crown Heights and Flatbush, as far as Church Lane ( now Church Avenue ) in the Town and Village of Flatbush.

Instead of rising into elevated tracks, it now veered west at the Massachusetts Turnpike and followed the Pike and the old Boston and Albany Railroad right-of-way to the existing MBTA Commuter Rail stop at Back Bay.

Its many lines in the Bronx are predominantly elevated, with some subway, and some railroad-style right-of-way acquired from the defunct New York, Westchester and Boston Railway, which now constitutes the IRT Dyre Avenue Line.

Old Pasadena is now a designated historic district of the Pasadena Charter defined by its boundaries 1 ) to the North, Holly Street from Fair Oaks Avenue to Arroyo Parkway ; 2 ) on the East, Arroyo Parkway south to Green Street, jogging one half block west to the old Santa Fe RR right-of-way and continuing 3 ) South to encompass the Old Train Station and Central Park, then north on Fair Oaks to De Lacey Street, then west to Pasadena Blvd.

Other portions of VGN right-of-way in eastern Virginia now transport fresh water and are under study for future high speed passenger rail service to South Hampton Roads from Richmond and Petersburg.

This branch closed in 1953, and unlike the also now-dormant North Shore Branch, the tracks of the South Beach line have been removed and homes now stand on its former right-of-way.

North of Eglinton Avenue, Spadina Road is again interrupted, here by the trenched right-of-way for the defunct Belt Line Railway, now a popular walking trail.

He announced an agreement with the Houston Electric Company on April 12, 1940, through which the company could convert its four remaining lines to buses, in exchange for the right-of-way used by the Park Place line.

Since the end of 2008 the railroad right-of-way has been used for the placement of poles that carry electric power from the wind turbines in western Benton County to the substation at Montmorenci.

Main Street used to run right along a railroad right-of-way.

The dispute ended in 1885, when the St. Louis Southwestern Railway used the land donated by Bailey for its right-of-way.

The right-of-way of Nassau Boulevard was later used for the Long Island Expressway ( Interstate 495 or I-495 ).

An abandoned rail right-of-way is sometimes used.

Often these roadways flanked the interurban lines, and, in some cases, the state would pressure a struggling interurban to abandon service so that its right-of-way could be used by the state to build a wider road.

In Washington State the Milwaukee Road right-of-way was acquired by the state through a quitclaim deed, and is used as a non-motorized recreational trail called the John Wayne Pioneer Trail.

The parking lot of the current WES station in downtown Tigard is where the OE tracks used to lie ; the abandoned right-of-way is still plainly visible north of downtown Tigard.

Monies from Cable television franchise fees are paid to government for use of right-of-way use of Public property, hopefully allowing other general fund monies to be used to operate the facilities, employ staff, develop curriculum, operate training workshops, schedule, maintain equipment, manage the cablecast of shows and publish promotion materials to build station viewership.

These maps are currently used by all levels of government and industry for forest fire and flood control ( as well as other environmental issues ), depiction of crop areas, right-of-way, real estate planning, development of natural resources and highway planning.

A new curved viaduct was constructed eastward from 8th Street to 11th Street in Bayonne to join the existing right-of way to Liberty State Park, which was once the main line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey ( CNJ ), parts of which rest on the bed of the Morris Canal ; CNJ's Newark and New York Railroad right-of-way was used for the line west to West Side Avenue.

The London Electric Railway had bought the W & ER in 1922 but had not previously used the right-of-way.

If more than one circuit is required to be carried and the width of the line right-of-way does not permit multiple towers to be used, two or three circuits can be carried on the same tower using several levels of cross-arms.

Boonton Line service began using the Erie's Greenwood Lake division up to its junction the Lackawanna Boonton Branch at Mountain View in Wayne as the Lackawanna right-of-way in Paterson was used for the construction of Interstate 80.

The province used the right-of-way in the Black Creek valley to construct a four-lane divided expressway with signalled intersections as far south as Eglinton Avenue.

Parts of the right-of-way were used to construct SR 434.

From Apopka to Clarcona, the right-of-way is used for the West Orange Trail.

Access to the trail can be found east of a railroad bridge which goes over the right-of-way for a former railroad line once used by Seaboard Air Line Railroad that spanned from Coleman to Auburndale in Polk County until the 1980s.

The right-of-way from East Boston to Revere, a length of 4. 3 miles, was used in 1952 – 1954 to build part of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Blue Line rapid transit line.

The remainder of the right-of-way is owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and may be used for further expansion of the Blue Line.

Part of the right-of-way was used for the current alignment of U. S. 1 ( SR 5 ), built in 1956 ; the rest was abandoned and has been mostly redeveloped.