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Originally Posted by MAXUM
Everyone knows this.... it's VERY well advertised at nearly every crossing. Status of these trails are also indicated where conditions are posted online and on every printed map I've seen.
Roll the dice, if coming face to face with a train is not enough incentive to stay off an active rail line then you deserve to die.
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Well, it doesn't indicate the railroad track and the snowmobile trail are one and the same, that they co-exist, on the map shown above in your post #4. There's no nothing about the railroad tracks on that map.
If a newbie snowmobiler from Massachusetts drove up to Meredith with a brand new $13,000 Arctic Cat and hit the local snowmobile trails, he could be a wee bit surprised when he sees he needs to be driving his sled with 44" wide runners up front, between two railroad rails with an inside width of 48.5".
Most snowmobiles can go 50-mph and faster, but with such a tight fit, 44" within 48.5" ...... you must have to putt putt along at a very slow speed or risk tearing up the sled.
This is an unusual situation ..... am trying to think of an analogy ..... like snowmobiling inside a straight jacket or something ..... maybe like riding a bicycle on a bike lane in down town Manhattan ..... except without the taxi cabs ...... just the two steel rails ..... and the uneven railroad ties, underneath.
...... kaboomba ..... booomba ..... booomba .... booom ...... is a rough ride and no wonder there's never anyone riding the trail/tracks as seen from Scenic Drive north of Weirs Beach ..... using the railroad track trail is probably just done one time, and then never again.
To identify which trails on your internet map have a co-exist with railroad tracks and snowmobile trail, couldn't you superimpose a railroad track on top of the color coded trail line ........ like, why not ....... is simple and shows what is what.