Recently, some research I've been doing on the first "dummy" railroad line in my town has gotten me thinking about street running... does anybody use this concept on their layout? I'm kind of curious if anybody has attempted to use some of the new SuperStreets track to model this in a switching layout, it seems like that would be an interesting way to pack a lot of action in a small space... though of course you'd need to use really small locos like docksiders or bangs (I have the old K Line version on my layout, best switcher ever made in O Gauge IMHO), and short trains. If I ever build another layout, this is something I think would be interesting to model so I'd love to see how people have pulled it off!
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Three of the best examples I've seen on this forum and on-line are from "Industrial Models", "Lars" and "Merchant's Row". All three have paid a lot of attention to detail.
Don AKA "Industrial Models". His buildings with interior trackage have interior scenery and lighting as well. One issue with street running is turnouts as they put a large "point pit" in your roadway compared to prototype, but Don seems to have managed that well with his layout (Atlas 2-rail).
Lars in Germany aka "Lars"
Merchant's Row Group
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Matt, those are some lovely and inspirational layouts! I am certainly impressed with what people have done with street running.
My current layout has a small-town Ohio with rail served light industries (Choshocton , Ohio and the old Valley Railroad serves as something of an inspiration) type setting. So it is good to see street running with different scenery types.
Here's some street running on my layout. I used K-Line super streets.
I don't have any street running but would very much like to incorporate some portion of it on my modular layout... just another project on the already too long list of things to do.
My most likely scenario will be to have some trolleys doing some back and fourth street running.
Thanks for the postings so far.
Charlie