[SauronOfMordor]

Railroad infrastructure is a good example -- who else but a railroad would have any use for a piece of real estate that is 500 miles long and 100 feet wide?

Anybody who wants to put in a high-capacity electric transmission line between two places. Or telecom lines (but we're overbuilt there at the moment)

[steveegg]

Anybody who wants to put in a high-capacity electric transmission line between two places.

Please, build! We need more power.

[Alberta's Child]

Anybody who wants to put in a high-capacity electric transmission line between two places.

You would think so, and yet over the last 50 years utilities and telecommunications companies rarely took advantage of the opportunity to purchase some of the cheapest rights of way available for this purpose (abandoned railroad alignments).