10/10/22 - Changes in railroads between 2016 - 2022 included realignment to aerial imagery where possible, and numerous private spurs to varoius facitities have been added in the West due to oil activity.

9/26/16 - The track near Lignite in Burke County has changed from DMVW to BNSF. Also, the track from near Lignite to Flaxton changed from DMVW to CPR. These change occurred in June of 2016.

7/16/14 updates: Yellowstone Valley Railroad was turned back to BNSF, and Mohall Central Railroad and Mohall Railroad Inc. were turned over to Northern Plains.

3/15/13 Abandonements

2012 - St. Thomas (1/2 mile north of Hwy 66) to Glasston

2011 - Arthur to Hunter

2010 - North of Bisbee to Rolla, North of Calvin to Sarles

6/18/09 - 2008 abandonments were Mohall Railroad, Inc from Voss to Forest River in Walsh County (7.06 miles) and the Canadian pacific Railway from Kramer to Bisbee in Bottineau, Rolette and Towner Counties ( 60.5 miles).

3/18/08 - no new abandonments. Rectified rail lines to the 2003 photos in the NE part of the state.

2/13/07 - Railroad abandonment's were added and they could be found by querying on the year field, and updated the rail names of Yellowstone Valley RR, Dakota Northern RR and Mohall Central RR

2/13/06 - Railroad abandonment's were added and they could be found by querying on the year field, and updated the rail names of Yellowstone Valley RR, Dakota Northern RR and Mohall Central RR This data came from the NDDOT's Mapping Section. The original data was digitized from hand scribed maps and registered to the 1:24000 USGS PLSS data. It was converted from a projection (NAD 1983 UTM Zone 14N) to a Geographic coordinate system.