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PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS

SURVEYING BEYOND BOUNDARIES

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PDH CREDITS

View our step-by-step guide on how to access the Professional Development Hour (PDH) credits you have earned through PSLS programs.

2025 SURVEYORS' CONFERENCE

Save the date for the 2025 Surveyors' Conference January 12 - 15, 2025 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA.

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The Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors (PSLS), a statewide professional organization, exists for the purpose of supporting, improving and enhancing the profession, its members, and the practice of land surveying. PSLS focuses on providing education, legislative involvement, enhancing public awareness, and the promulgation of the ethics of the profession.

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EST. 1969

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Railroads Webinar

Presented by: Michael F. Brinkash, PLS.

May 8, 2024 from Noon - 1PM

Topics covered in this webinar include: 

  • Types of Title Acquired by Railroads

  • Regulation of Abandonment

  • Determining Abandonment

  • Discontinuance of Railroad Rather than Abandonment

  • Railbanking

  • Constitutionality of Rails to Trails

  • Prescriptive Easement vs. Adverse Possession of a Road Crossing

  • Interpretation of Documents Creating Railroad’s Original Interest

  • Meaning of a Right-of-Way

  • Railroad is a Highway

  • Fences Along Railroad Right-of-Ways

  • ICC Instruction for Railroad Maps

  • Railroad Guage-Distance Between Tracks-Basis of Horizontal and Vertical Datum

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