This data set includes only the railroads in the south central and the eastern half of the US. NBII-SAIN (ed.) created this file by clipping from from USGS railrdl020.shp. NBII-SAIN website: (http://sain.nbii.gov/).
Original dataset (railrdl020.shp) was downloaded from http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html.
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This data set includes only the railroads in the south central and the eastern half of the US. NBII-SAIN (ed.) created this file by clipping from from USGS railrdl020.shp. NBII-SAIN website: (http://sain.nbii.gov/). Data completeness generally reflects the content of the original 1:2,000,000-scale DLG file.
The Arc/INFO commands BUILD and CLEAN were run to ensure the topological consistency of the data set.
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