Do you street run your trains?

I always thought this would be an odd thing to model...but would love to see some pictures as well!

"I always thought this would be an odd thing to model"

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That's got to be some site. Sitting in a little diner or heck even a bar for that matter and all of a sudden things just start shaking and rattling.  Lol

I personally don’t have any street running incorporated into my layout or the clubs modular layout, but I do have it high on my wish list of things to model.

I might have to compromise by running trolleys on something like the Bachman EZ Streets.

However, really enjoy looking at old pictures (or even LaGrange KY which I have visited several times) to watch the street action.

Charlie

The only way to do it correctly is to model 2 rail.

I've been experimenting using black copper conductive tape for 3r rollers. Current is too high, no luck so far. TBC.

We have ridden the Amtrak Auto train to Florida many times. In Ashland Virginia it runs right through the middle of town in the street. It is a weird sight to behold. 

Not really SIRT, you can use MTH scaletrax. Burry the track except for the flange guide and that middle blade rail AND you are good to go!

All these people including me have been to LaGrange, Ky. ? I was startled after the stop light turned red to have a road engine and train go by right under my nose, as first in line.  I think that was the one time I've seen a train through there, and only once along there where they daylighted that tunnel west of Carrollton.  It has to be time of day and not seeing trains, and thinking none are likely, that creates complacency that gets people killed, as discussed in the other posting.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Not really SIRT, you can use MTH scaletrax. Burry the track except for the flange guide and that middle blade rail AND you are good to go!

Good idea. I would like to see a photo example. I do like cobblestone streets though!

Technically, Ashland VA is not street running since the pavement is on either side of the tracks and doesn't share the same right-of-way as the railroad.   Though some drivers think so:

Don't miss 4:30, prior is proof of the reverse Darwin problem we are having in the gene pool.

One of my favorite photos:  NS business train "street running" August, GA to the Masters:

I've also been in Augusta when a freight rolled through town.

Yes, I will. The Chicago South Shore & South Bend still run a few miles down our city streets.  Will duplicate that.

I have a siding going to the grain silo that goes down a residential street. I used k-line easy streets. When the battery in my camera charges I'll post a video.

I have a 12' street running scene I do on FCTT's modular layout. Here's a link to a post with a few photos and a short video. My new layout I'm building at home will have a 4' street running scene as well.

Not street running as such, but this shows how well EZ streets can work with street running

645 posted:

What's odd about it? Here's CSXT's Louisville to Cincinnati mainline that runs right down the street of LaGrange, Kentucky:

Holy Cow!! Looks like an accident waiting to happen.

Joe Gozzo

PeterA posted:

Not street running as such, but this shows how well EZ streets can work with street running

Awesome, I've  got a huge box of super streets to sell but I'll keep a little bit for a street -ally siding. Looks great and you don't have to fill in between the rails. Thanks for the idea.

zwbob posted:

Is that super streets or fill in either way it looks great.

K-Line EZ /Super, whatever they called them, streets.

Here is a video.

Good afternoon, I don't have any photo's to add for street running trains but I do remember when my wife and I first moved to Clearfield PA in 1988.

We where a bar downtown on a Saturday evening having some buffalo wings which were the rage at that time. As we were enjoying our wings and washing them down with some cold beers the entire building began to rumble and the rumbling kept getting more intense.

We looked around and nobody else in the bar seem to be alarmed by this, so now we are thinking maybe we should stop with the beers.

As the rumbling continued we went to the front door and was greeted by a Conrail engine crew that was asking about moving cars from the street so they could go thru.

Like a couple of tourist we stood there in front of the bar and watched the entire coal train go up thru town.

The waitress that was working our table thought we cut out without paying and was glad to see us when we came back in the bar.

It was only a couple of years later the track up this street was removed and the street was repaved.

It was still a neat sight to see the train coming up the street.