WBB.....here are some ideas from the Japan hobby trade show. These are N scale but would make great O scale EZ Street additions. I really like the dual line turnout.
The system as a whole looks interesting.
I plan on a pseudo dual line trolley for my layout....it will look like dual line but will really only be a single line folded over itself.
This was a test the layout loops will be larger.....
Just some single EZ Streets turnouts would be good!!!
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Yes, some left- and right-hand switches (in the D21 size) would be a GREAT addition to the line.
I would dearly love to have some EZ-Street switches, too.
In the meantime, I "fake it." I use O-27 swtiches that I connect using the O-27 to Superstreets transition pins (not the transition track pieces, just the replacement pins) - you can still find K-Line by Lionel bags of these replacement pins for about $6 and they do fit EZ-Streets - I installed some this weekend. They are about the only remaining Superstreets items my LHS has on their shelves now.
I have three "road turnouts" done this way. One is inside a tunnel (a road goes in one side on a mountain. Out of sight the EZ-Street transitions to the O-27 swich and then on the other side both routes transition back to EZ-Street and two different roads come out the other side). The second and third are in the bottom floor and top floor what looks like a three story parking garage-bus & trolley trolley terminal on the lowest level the road enters the parking garage entrance and loops around to come out the exit at that same level about two feet away (similar to if you had a building over the lower half of the trolley loop in your photo, AMCDave) - but inside the building an O-27 swtich inserted in that loop can divert a car or bus to a helix of D-21 EZ-Street that sprials up to the third floor where it exits the via the third switch onto a loop that circulates on the upper level of my layout. Hope I explained it well - I'm at work and can't take pictures.
I'm getting into this too. I really like it and hope they do switches. I have found some K-Line Super Streets to Fastrack transitions, so I plan using Fastrack switches under buildings or out of sight to do the same thing. Another use of E-Z streets for me, I'm building an intermodal yard and am going to use E-Z Streets straights for the yard, which will include an intermodal crane which will easily be able to move over the flat and very realistic looking surface.
Dave - I thought about using Fastrack, particularly since I had several spare switches. But with the plastic roadbed it is almost 1/2 inch higher above the EZ-Street road surface, meaning you have to have a rise and then a fall, in rather short order as you transition from/to the switch. That is why I went with the O-27 switches: there is just a much smaller difference in height which makes these small cars run so much better.
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