Anyone model something like this?

I bought K-Line/Bachmann streets track to do something like that.....but re-designed my layout and removed that part. But easy to do with Streets......as long as you have no curves!!

This is the closest I can come.  Street-running photos do intrigue me, however.  Where was that photo taken, LionelBill?

Bill, I don't know where your picture was taken, but twice in my railroad career, I have done some 'Street running"! The B&O used to go through my home town and on through Wheeling WV., in the last part of my career I ran quite a bit through Brownsville Pa. on Conrail/NS. You would be amazed at the look on some peoples faces, especially if not from around the local areas to see a freight train coming down the middle of the road straight at them! I was once hit by a car on a late Friday night and after all was said and done he exclaimed, "I knew I was drunk and figured I was imagining I was seeing a train in the road"! True story!

Here is one I found some time ago. I have no idea of the actual location.

Ya can't make this stuff up!

Syracuse New York 1905,

Jamestown New York 1914,

I've seen that Mae Klong video before, but every time it shows up, I just have to watch it again.  That redefines street running.

Reading Mass 1905,

That's the Dundee Spur on Monroe Street in Garfield, NJ.

Bob 

Not sure you exact location but engine appears to be a Virginian  

tr18, did that train in the pic have to stop for the traffic lights also?

Rick

I also think that street running is very interesting.  This helps me decide how to treat a section of my layout where the tracks run very close to some buildings.  I will just build the street around the track like in these scenes.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Art

Bill

Does this count?

Art

You probably could have some fun with the younger group showing them what happens when you don't yield to a train!

Larry

It would have been more exciting at 50mph..

Ft Collins, CO and this is the mainline of the Colorado & Southern.

I hereby propose a law that states all railroad street operations must be done under steam.....with cylinder drains wide open. (I know; probably too subtle for clueless, texting car-drivers)

CSX train that runs through downtown Tampa. I intend to model something similar...someday. 

Brownsville, PA has a street in which trains run right down the middle of the street. 

Very "Polar Express."

That is always cool to see, and would be fun to model.

A Thoroughbred in Syracuse, NY.

Pete

"The City With Trains In The Streets".

Fascinating Book!

Syracuse New York 1905,

This is a view of the street car tracks on South Salina Street looking south.  Note the lift bridge over the Erie Canal in the late 1800's.  This "enhanced and colorized" photograph most likely was taken from the "Empire House" located on Clinton Square, which is where the interurban electrified third rail came and went east and west.

I was recently in New Bern, NC and saw a Norfolk Southern train coming right down the middle of the street. I thought it was awesome! I would love to build something similar to this when I build my layout.