25 U.S.C. § 313 — Width of rights-of-way

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A railroad right-of-way can't be wider than 50 feet on each side of the center line. Near heavy cuts or fills, it can widen to 100 feet on each side. Station land is capped at 200 by 3,000 feet, with only one station per 10 miles of road.

The right-of-way for the railroad can't be wider than fifty feet on each side of the center line of the road. Where there are heavy cuts or fills in the land, the right-of-way can widen to as much as one hundred feet on each side. The right-of-way may also include nearby ground for station buildings, depots, machine shops, sidetracks, turnouts, and water stations. This extra land can't be more than two hundred feet wide by three thousand feet long. Only one station is allowed within any continuous ten-mile stretch of road.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Such right of way shall not exceed fifty feet in width on each side of the center line of the road, except where there are heavy cuts and fills, when it shall not exceed one hundred feet in width on each side of the road, and may include grounds adjacent thereto for station buildings, depots, machine shops, sidetracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed two hundred feet in width by a length of three thousand feet, and not more than one station to be located within any one continuous length of ten miles of road.

Source credit: (Mar. 2, 1899, ch. 374, § 2, 30 Stat. 990; June 21, 1906, ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 330.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1899Enacted · Act of Mar. 2, 1899, ch. 374 · 30 Stat. 990
1906Amended · Act of June 21, 1906, ch. 3504 · 34 Stat. 330

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 374 on 1899-03-02.

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