Let's see your Super Streets and EZ Streets loops

I have two or three 'Streets loops done (depending on how you count loops) and am beginning the final one.

The video below shows my biggest current loop: about 43 feet around, built into the mainstreet of my downtown.  I normally run the two city buses shown: both custom built with large flywheel motors and reduction gearing. Despite being two lanes through downtown this is only one loop - as you can see from following a bus in the video as it goes around, the loop rev erses and goes the other direction through downtown.

Below is just a photo (sorry, no video) of my loop two.  Strictly speaking this is two loops.  Each lane is separate and circles the block, one inside the other,  for a total of about ten feet each lane.  The two "steets cars shown are a '54 Caddy convertible and '57 Chevy Belair coupe, both 1;43 diecast converted to 'Streets.

I have a third loop under construction.  You can actually see where it will be in the photo above.  The wood to the left of the union Monitor newspaer building is the level that will have an "industrail area" that it loops around, then proceeds behind the buildings int eh background as you are viewedin this and back to the other end of the laout (25 feet behind this view, around, and then back.  It will not be 'streets track but made from Atlas track with 36 and 31 inch diameter curves only, and I will run 18-wheeler trucks and scale greyhound buses on it.  I'll complete it sometime late this year.

Lee, I wish your stuff was available commercially.  You've put a lot of work into those things.  The bus is awesome.

Nice!  Do you use any sort of block system on the bus line to keep one from catching up to the other?  Or is that not a problem?

no blocks.  Simplicity.  They are both identicla drive systems and they ruyn at very nearly the exact speed.  I set them equidistance on the loop and it takes them about half an hour for one, a tiny bit quicker, to catch the other.

lee, i am surprised you have not figured out how to have them stop and actually drop off and pick up people.

Very, very nice.  Any more real and there would be pedestrians "J" walking in front of the buses!

Ron

that would not be too hard to do, and it would be fun. .  But that's not what I want to do.  the main theme of my layout is constant motion.  I just love to set everything - trains, cars, buses, boat - in motion and just watch.  In particularly I have arranged different length mainline and street loops with plenty of reversing loops (this makes trains and vehicles come back at you from the other direction, so for example my two buses pass each other about once a minute) and the result is a lot of action and movement everywhere.  

Great thread and Lee, your buses and the amount of streets are fantastic. Thanks for sharing. I also agree that it would be great if you had products available for the masses! Terry

lee, i meant having people really getting on and off.  

  www.gardenrailwaygizmos.com  has some original K-line superstreets she is closing out. Claudia isn't doing O-scale anymore. 

Lee,

I crown you King of Super Streets. Your Super Streets layout is amazing with wonderful creativity and an overall realistic impression. As Tony The Tiger says, "It's great!" I always want to see more of your layout.

The boys at TrainStock have some nice SuperStreets stuff on the layout.  Gosh, they have about everything on that layout!

Can you double check the link ? site not found

http://www.gardenrailwaygizmos.com/products.html

None listed under K-line

Here is the latest update on my Layout.

Oh, now that would be cool!

  Oops, sorry about that. Try this www.gardenrailwaygizmos.com You might have to call Claudia, I don't know if she has it listed or not.

Brad J

Steve C.

Great pictures everyone...

TMack...love the video!  And that bait shack has an interesting name!

Alan

Lee,  Thanks, My camera is set on Manual focus so it was a challenge, but I like to show the superstreets in action.

Alan,  Thanks - LOL the Bait Shack sign is removable, it irks my wife with the kids.

-Ted

VI am so encourage that there are many others who go to a lot of effort with 'Streets and detail in their downtowns.  They all look so good.  Thanks.

Vulcan - how did you do the moon in your first photo?  Do you actually have a light in it? It looks so real. 

Lee, which bus was easier to mod?  It looks like you have two body styles there? 

I'm looking at another post you have up about the buses, you said you used "repair putty," did you glue the halves first then fill with the putty, or clamp and fill, or what?  Was the stock SS motor just jerky and too fast, or would it not handle the weight of the metal body?  How did you mount it to the chassis - did you have to fab up tabs for attachment or were you able to just drill the chassis and hit mounting points on the body, or something else?

Thanks

Vulcan, is that liquor store from a kit or did you scratchbuild it?  And if a kit, from who?

Real good stuff here.Great detail and great photo's and video's. Thanks all, its a joy viewing.

Vulcan, very nice!

doug