In Dana R. Hodges Trust v. United States, 111 Fed. Cl. 452 (2013), the judge found that, although state law claims of abandonment of a railroad right-of-way are preempted by operation of the Trails Act, the issuance of the NITU does not preempt all state law property claims of a landowner. See id. In Dana R. Hodges Trust, the court found that plaintiffs lacked case support for their broader pre-emption argument that the Trails Act precludes all state law property law claims. Id. In that case, the court concluded that, while the Trails Act precludes a landowners state law claim as to abandonment of a railroad easement, plaintiffs are not impeded from exercising whatever rights of access they held that pre-existed the conversion of the railroad corridor to recreational usage. Id.