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Intro: the map I wish I didn’t have to make “Oh, wouldn’t it be nice if we had train service again?” “I would take the train if we had one, but it will take forever to build.” “America is too spread out and Americans too attached to their cars.” Within the context of American passenger rail, I’ve heard every one of these…
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Hey guys, very green geospatial engineer here. I've set myself a task to learn how to create track diagrams with ArcGIS Pro. I created the following diagram by using railroad track data and by using the "Apply Relative Mainline Tool". For a first run of the tool I think its looking fairly good (or maybe I've spent so long…
The Annual Esri Railroad GIS Summit ("RailSummit") is scheduled for 4-5 November 2025, hosted at Union Pacific Railroad offices in Omaha, Nebraska. The agenda for that event is being pulled together now, but we would like to hear from you, if there are topics you would like to discuss, or present, or would like Esri to…
This article here on the ArcGIS Blog, describes a newly released capability in ArcGIS Pro's LAS Classification tools called "Rail Selection". If you have Lidar data that includes steel rails, choosing this option during point cloud classification, finds the points that represent the steel rails in the data captures and…
On Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 we hosted a Railroad GIS Community live webinar that covered one of the several topics related to evolving your use of desktop GIS from the ArcMap workstation to the ArcGIS Pro workstation. Specifically, we discussed the topic of how to migrate any custom tools you may have built for ArcMap…
On August 29th, 2024 we at Esri hosted a webinar focused on how Short Line railroads can get started, and get productive, with ArcGIS. We discussed how to start building your GIS database using data published by the ArcGIS Living Atlas and by the US Dept of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) mapping…
The degree that railroad track curves along its length, is one of the most significant factors which constrain the maximum speed that trains are allowed to travel along the railway network. There are several times when it's important to measure this curvature: 1. When the track construction is originally designed. 2. After…
********* BLOG ARTICLE UPDATE, JUNE 23, 2025 The ArcGIS Online Map Viewer now contains railroad line symbols. Just go into the Properties of your line layer, there are now different kinds of railroad symbols under the "Transportation" symbol set. Thanks to @CameronRex1 for pointing that out. For more information,…
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