Mainline on Main Street

Back in 1992 I ran the 765 right down that street. We ran trips on the Paducah & Louisville, and this was the deadhead route to get there and back.

Oh Rich... would I have loved to see that! I was imagining what it might have been like with big steam running down Main. In Midway, KY there is also a line running down the middle of town. It's little used today and I think RJ Corman owns it. But LaGrange is a busy place.

Until the trackage was relocated adjacent to the CSX line a number of years ago, the NS Buffalo Line was located in the middle of 19th Street in Erie, PA:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlAe9bNKWeg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvXVOSYkd0

Bob

You can see the N &W J-Class #611 down the middle of the street in Erie Pa  in the Video

"Bridges to Buffalo"

some amazing shots from Helicopter and great cab scenes and plenty of runbys.

produced by Rich and available in the OGR store.

Jim that is one of my favorite scenes....and that video contains some of Frank Collins finest running IMHO.

I haven't been there in years, but the Milwaukee Road ran down the middle of 2nd Street in Bellevue, Iowa. I believe the CP still does.

Here is a link to MR F units on  2nd Street. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7547061@N02/4766996342/

Dan

I love street running. There's one left in So Cal in Anahiem, CA. The UP (Former SP) branch runs East down the middle of Santa Ana St, then turns a corner South down the center of Olive Street. The run is about 1 1/2 miles between "off-road" rights-of-way. The area used to have some rail-served businesses on the street which meant some street-switching. I've carefully followed a train through this run and it's really impressive.

Ashland VA (10 miles north of Richmond) on Rail Day 2010

Peter

Matt great video of the Gensets....looks like an interesting spot.

This video is a "must have" for anyone interested in street running:

http://www.pentrex.com/streetdvd.html

Bob

The South Shore still runs through Michigan City, Indiana down the middle of the street, both freight and passenger.

I've been there in LaGrange when a train came through...no gates, so it is wise to pay attention to the lights.  I am sorry I wasn't there when steam came through!! That is not the only small town in Kentucky with that phenomenon, but I can't now call to mind others' locations.  Frankfort, the Ky. capital, has a station at the mouth of a tunnel from which trains once appeared and then stopped, but its track runs closely parallel to the street and not in it.  Frankfort was the terminal for the Frankfort and Cincinnati short line written up by Beebe and Clegg  in "Mixed Train Daily" as the "bourbon route" for its route past distilleries on the way up to Paris, Ky., often operated by gas electrics such as its Brill car now in the Ky. Rwy. Museum at Lebanon Jct., Ky.  The abandoned stone distillery "castle" at Stamping Ground, Ky., once served by the F&C, is on my "to model" list.  Southern Indiana had/has some sites, too, with track in the streets.