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I have a project wherein having train route information would be useful. Like if I could get GPS coordinates that form the routes themselves I could do maps like https://www.amtrak.com/track-your-train.html using the Simple Polylines API on Google Maps.
Is that stuff publicly available? I'm most specifically interested in this for Texas railroads: https://ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/tpp/maps/2016-railroad.pdf
Both https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/usdot::north-american-rail-network-lines and https://hifld-geoplatform.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/2a9677db741d4a78bd221586fe9a61f5_0/data appear to have this data as KMLs, Shapefiles, etc
https://www.fla-etat.org/est/metadata/rails_abandoned.htm explains the various fields.
https://gis-txdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/90f8c6d733274c26b9c8ea25e41fff62_0 has this data for Texas, specifically.
