TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Larry W. Thomas TI - Railroad Legal Issues and Resources DO - 10.17226/22093 PY - 2015 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22093/railroad-legal-issues-and-resources PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Cooperative Rail Research Program (NCRRP) Legal Research Digest 2: Railroad Legal Issues and Resources presents legal issues of importance that attorneys may encounter when representing both freight and passenger railroad owners, and operators involved in railroad-related transactions. Issues explored in the report range from abandonment and discontinuance to constitutional law, construction, contracts, interaction with regulatory agencies, safety, retirement, and numerous other subjects.The electronic version of the digest includes more than 700 pages of case law presenting detailed summaries of statutes, regulations, cases, and relevant articles as a fundamental resource for use in understanding the background and broad ramifications of railroad-related law reflected in each category. To access the case law, click the Roman numeral headings, which are linked to the legal topics. A search for the legal topic will also result in finding it. The printed digest includes an annotated index of the case law and a bound-in CD-ROM with the case law reference materials. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Charles A. Spitulnik A2 - Allison I. Fultz A2 - Christian L. Alexander TI - Issues that Emerge When Public Entities Acquire a Real Property Interest in Rail Lines DO - 10.17226/21927 PY - 2016 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21927/issues-that-emerge-when-public-entities-acquire-a-real-property-interest-in-rail-lines PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Cooperative Rail Research Program (NCRRP) Legal Research Digest (LRD) 3: Issues that Emerge When Public Entities Acquire a Real Property Interest in Rail Lines presents potential issues and solutions that may emerge when state and local governments seek to acquire real property interests from an operating railroad in active rail corridors. The report also includes an annotated term sheet template for pursuit of the transaction. ER -