Go to myvaresources.com and go to the photo galleries link. One of the photo galleries listed there is the postflood one. Those are photos taken on a walk down the railroad tracks. As I pointed out to Town Council members last night, they really should look at them. Erosion of the banks (on the side where more asphalt paving is coming and the owner has had to add 2 drains to keep his property from flooding – both of which dump onto the bank of land I’ve photographed) washed down debris onto the track (I removed that), and there are piles of dirt and gravel that have pressed up against the outside rail and comes to within 1/4″ of the top of the rail in places. There is also one place where a power line is being pulled down by large limbs and trees that are on their way down that slope as well.
Hope the town is aware of this State Code:
§ 15.2-5149. Interference with railroad structures.
Whenever any railroad tracks, pipes, poles, wires, conduits or other structures or facilities which are located in, along, across, over or under any public road, street, highway, alley or other public right-of-way become an obstruction to, interfere with or are endangered by the construction, operation or maintenance of any system of the authority, the unit having ownership, control or jurisdiction over such public road, street, highway, alley or other public right-of-way may, as the exercise of an essential governmental function, order the safeguarding, maintaining, relocating, rebuilding, removing or replacing of such railroad tracks, pipes, poles, wires, conduits or other structures or facilities by the owner thereof at the expense of the authority, subject to the provisions of § 25.1-102.
(Code 1950, § 15-764.12; 1950, p. 1318; 1954, c. 554; 1958, cc. 400, 402; 1960, c. 430; 1962, cc. 130, 623, § 15.1-1250; 1968, cc. 355, 556; 1970, cc. 444, 617; 1972, c. 161; 1979, c. 280; 1980, c. 159; 1981, c. 610; 1983, c. 422; 1984, c. 554; 1994, c. 477; 1997, c. 587.)
