# 2025-00628: Tiny Railroad Gives Up, Abandons Tracks in Rural NY

2025-00628, The Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Company-Abandonment Exemption-in Lewis County, N.Y., is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-14, effective 2025-02-13 (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00628
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-00628
- Title: The Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Company-Abandonment Exemption-in Lewis County, N.Y.
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-14
- Effective: 2025-02-13
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Tiny Railroad Gives Up, Abandons Tracks in Rural NY

## Summary

The Lowville & Beaver River Railroad Company is officially ending service and abandoning a 10.57-mile rail line between Lowville and Croghan, New York. This affects local communities in Lewis County who haven’t seen train traffic here for over 15 years. The railroad has followed all rules, and the process is moving forward without any complaints or delays.

## Effects PRIA read

- Lowville–Croghan Rail Line Abandoned: cost, low. If you live in Lowville or Croghan, New York (ZIP codes 13367 and 13327), the Lowville & Beaver River Railroad is abandoning a 10.57-mile rail line between milepost 0.0 and milepost 10.57. The abandonment exemption becomes effective on February 13, 2025, and the Board notes that no local or overhea…
- Employee Protections After Abandonment: benefit, medium. If you are a railroad employee affected by this abandonment, you are protected under the Oregon Short Line employee-protection rules cited in the notice. A petition for partial revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed to challenge whether these protections adequately protect affected employ…
- Environmental Review and Filing Deadlines: benefit, low. The Board's Office of Environmental Analysis will issue a Draft Environmental Assessment by January 17, 2025; comments on environmental or historic matters are due within 15 days after the Draft EA is available. Interested parties may file formal expressions of intent to file an offer of financial…

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## Sources
- [2025-00628 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/14/2025-00628/the-lowville-and-beaver-river-railroad-company-abandonment-exemption-in-lewis-county-ny)
- [2025-00628 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-14/pdf/2025-00628.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00628 (as of 2026-06-08).