The Working with Railroads to Build Trails helps local trail advocates interact with railroad companies when pursuing a trail.

ADA Access on Paved Bikeways highlights how ADA regulations should influence the design of pathways, parallel paths, intersections, on-street bikeways, and over/under crossings.

Railbanking and Purchase Agreement Template

Railbanking and Rail-Trails: A Legacy for the Future

This checklist for starting your trail project will help you gather information to create a vision for your trail or greenway project.

This report discusses how construction of a trail on an abandoned rail corridor involves cleanup of toxic metals, chemicals and contaminants.

This report serves as a national resource guide to assist communities in utilizing new and existing brownfield programs to understand and address environmental clean-up issues that may inhibit the conversion of unused rail rights-of-way

Sample Trail Easement

The General License Agreement grants the former a right-of-way license to build a trail alongside a light rail corridor.

This study of abandoned rail corridors provides a detailed look at the remaining corridors in Detroit and evaluates their prospects for rail-trail conversion.