North Carolina Rail-Trails
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This is the authorized web site for North Carolina Rail-Trails


Last Updated on May 12, 2009

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You may not have heard of NCRT or rail-trails before. That's why this site is important. 
You'll discover that surplus rail corridors are valuable public assets and well worth preserving.

Little Toot newsletters for 2008 and 2009

Spring 2009 Little Toot PDF File download

Winter 2008 Little Toot PDF File download
Spring 2008 Little Toot PDF File download
Fall 2008 Little Toot PDF File download

Archive of Prior Year Little Toot

On 4/7/09 NC Rail-Trails initiated an Email list where addressees can receive periodic alerts of news and events concerning NCRT and rail trails projects in N. Carolina. Please click here to open the subscription form. For archives of these alerts click here

Some Not-So-New Items:
Jacksonville rail-trail underway (12/06) A Little Light Reading: Why Save Surplus Rail Corridors?
Board member (and new Chair) a weekend engineer State Projects: North Carolina rail-trails and projects
SR2S a new trail funding source Useful Contacts--All Levels: Who & Where directory
Raillines--Oct.-Nov. 2007 History, Purpose, Operation of NCRT: All about NCRT
And a Few Recent Items:
NEWS PAGE initiated (4-15-09)to report on rail-trail events, progress on projects and other news Info on U.S. Rails-Trails: Federal Rail-with-Trails Study and Much More
Stimulus Funds May Help Trail Building 2-09  
Opinion Piece on Need for Trails Stimulus in NC (1-13-09) Most Recent Materials: Laws, Court Cases and Legal Analysis

Rail-Trail Alert
A group of citizens including some public officials has recently formed a two counties "Friends" group to support the establishment of a 18.5 mile rail-trail between Hendersonville and Brevard on a discontinued Norfolk-Southern RR rail corridor. The group has posted a PETITION to request State and local governments to partner to create the first State Rail-Trail.

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