Sounds like a whole region very near my home town.
Overgrown train tracks snaking their way through paddocks and over hills everywhere and instead of keeping them going for all of the people that want to travel 3hrs from Canberra to the coast, they now have cramped buses instead...
Yeah go for Clive. I know that you're really enjoy them!
What's the AKC by the way?
Jeeze. I got my letters mixed. It's ATK. I wonder what AKC (American Kennel Club?) is too :)
A huge defense contractor. They were able to grab a HUGE reservation out there to manufacture and test their stuff. Here's a view from their parking lot at part of their display.
Pretty impressive parking lot, all in all. Another discovery made when I was completely lost. I knew I wanted to head south and west....
Wow, impressive yes, a bit scary too, yes.....😳
In Eastern Washington State I know of at least two spur lines that were abandoned and the right of way converted into trails. One of them is over 50 miles long and both are especially popular with horse riders...
I also know an abandoned line that was converted into a roadway for logging trucks and sportsmen near Avery, Idaho in the Rocky Mountains. There are two tunnels that you are required to have a CB radio and check oncomming traffic before entering. Pretty cool stuff. It was the very best way to get to my favorite fishing place on earth...
Now that sounds pretty cool.
I never got to Idaho unfortunately, but I did go through the Rockies...well I must have when I was in Colorado. Loved Colorado....Loved the US, soooo many gorgeous and totally unique places everywhere...