Download TIGER shapes for Rails
Examples
# takes > 5 seconds
# Wrapped in try due to false positive 304 errors
try(tt_rails()) # downloads slow on CRAN
#> Simple feature collection with 124883 features and 3 fields
#> Geometry type: LINESTRING
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -158.1354 ymin: 17.99774 xmax: -65.90612 ymax: 64.92612
#> Geodetic CRS: NAD83
#> # A tibble: 124,883 × 4
#> LINEARID FULLNAME MTFCC geometry
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <LINESTRING [°]>
#> 1 11020239500 Norfolk Southern Rlwy R1011 (-79.47058 35.44283, -79.46946…
#> 2 11020239501 Norfolk Southern Rlwy R1011 (-79.46687 35.44789, -79.46762…
#> 3 11020239503 Norfolk Southern Rlwy R1011 (-79.46687 35.44789, -79.4659 …
#> 4 11020239575 Seaboard Coast Line RR R1011 (-79.43695 35.11686, -79.43219…
#> 5 11020239576 Seaboard Coast Line RR R1011 (-79.47821 35.0574, -79.47772 …
#> 6 11020239577 Seaboard Coast Line RR R1011 (-79.43695 35.11686, -79.43687…
#> 7 11020239589 Aberdeen and Rockfish RR R1011 (-79.38755 35.11136, -79.38759…
#> 8 11020239591 Aberdeen and Briar Patch RR R1011 (-79.53848 35.22445, -79.53787…
#> 9 11020239592 Aberdeen and Briar Patch RR R1011 (-79.53848 35.22445, -79.5375 …
#> 10 11020242417 NA R1011 (-79.24463 35.33072, -79.24636…
#> # ℹ 124,873 more rows