riding the rails

My interest got piqued by this years & years ago when Canadian
Magazine (I think it was) which was an insert into a number of weekend
newspapers did a story about a fellow who had done the entire Kettle
Valley Railroad (Hope-Princeton-Penticton-Rock Creek BC), when the
rails were intact but the trains were mostly gone (I think they kept a
few short lengths active maybe), around 1969 . . . GREAT story, made
me most curious about this part of cycling

More recently (mid-90s), in a book from the local library referenced a
closed railway near Astoria OR that was being used as a way to allow
blind people to cycle.  If I recall properly, this railway had 130 km
or miles of rail

that's all I got