This extremely short railway, which is all of 200’ long, is a very creative (and ultimately futile)
way to try to avoid paying taxes:
Cheers!!
Dave
Interesting! I guess you can’t blame 'em for trying.
Well that would make a foot by foot railroad to model. All 2 and a half. Three feet of it. Cheap equipment roster too
shane
For a surprisingly modest initiation fee I will sell you a membership in the Bayside Canadian Railway Historical Society. Somewhat more expensive is the up to date equipment roster. Annual conventions usually involve lots of photo run-bys.
Dave Nelson
Among the many problems with the scheme, the law requires that a railroad be part of the route. Since the 200 ft railroad departs from and arrives at the exact same “station”, the car doesn’t go anywhere and thus is not part of the “route”.
If they had been really clever they would have had each end of the track legally recorded as a different “station”, the the trip would have been from East Whatever to West Whatever and one could say that the rail leg traveled between two different stations.
They would have still lost due to the other problems, but that would make it easier to defend the rail move.
If they had taken the trailers from the area by the loading docks to the front gate , they might have had a better argument