Trolley/street line marking

Not necessarily, but it could also depend on your era. Maybe a center line down the middle if that is a two-way street. place it just to one side of the third rail or both sides if you wanit to be a no-passing zone.

@PRRMP54 posted:

Not necessarily, but it could also depend on your era. Maybe a center line down the middle if that is a two-way street. place it just to one side of the third rail or both sides if you wanit to be a no-passing zone.

Modern era, 2 way city street. No passing. Should have been more specific. Thanks.

@ENichter posted:

Modern era, 2 way city street. No passing. Should have been more specific. Thanks.

I would look at some modern era system photos and see how the different agencies do this. A google image search should bring up a carload.

You can pretty much do whatever you want. Retrofitted modern trolley systems are uncommon (unlike light-rail transit systems, which are more elaborate) and usually wouldn’t run on a street that narrow (unlike old-time systems), but there are exceptions.

In situations where tracks share the right of way in modern times on wider streets, most cities would provide signs and markings that tries to separate the rail and street traffic. But not always.

If you’re running old-fashioned trolleys in a modern scene, you can be your own safety engineer. How much street markings you put in depends upon your own sense of responsibility to the residents of your O scale community.

I found lots of images using modern trolley as the keywords in a Google search. Decide for yourself. 

Thanks Jim

In my car club days, there was pin striping tape set up for parallel stripes. It came in a roll that had two parallel stripes with a less-sticky transparent tape overlay that allowed you to lay both stripes, then peel off the overlay. The tape was vinyl and could make some pretty sharp curves. It still might be available at Pep Boys and it came in several colors including white and yellow It would be perfect for running a double line straddling the center rail of your trolley line.

What Matt stated - automotive pin-striping tape:

https://www.the5sstore.com/qtr..._EAQYASABEgLJ-PD_BwE

Or mask off the area with tape and paint yourself.

-Greg

I'd put yellow lines the width of the trolley on either side of the track, thus indicating auto traffic should stay off.  In the old days of Belgian Block streets, rows of block could be seen denoting trolley clearances with the remainder of the roadway paved with asphalt. 

Mitch 

Another example, in concrete: 

https://whyy.org/wp-content/up...trolley.original.jpg

In brick, without the outer markers: 

https://i.pinimg.com/originals...6d506b0c13368d3e.jpg

With Belgian block and outer yellow lines: 

https://lh3.googleusercontent....0-lwJtFUM4HjrDf0tvWt

You can see remnants of the double row marker blocks to the right of this image:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...2824031276754%29.jpg

Mitch 

Thanks Mitch, very helpful.

@Prr7688 posted:

 I think this may be the prototype of what you are going for. This is SEPTA's 101 line in Media Pa. I took these pictures in Dec. 2015. The middle picture is the 'end of the line'. If my memory is correct, they had a bumper at the end of the track in the early 2000s (I was very young then so this could just be my imagination). They're were taken at night so they are dark and slightly blurry so here is google street view of the same street: https://www.google.com/maps/@3...3D100!7i16384!8i8192

 

The tracks are laid in concrete which extends to the width of the trolley's body on each side. There is a while stripe that is pained at the boarder between the concrete and the asphalt road. When you drive down the street, you are allowed to drive on top of the tracks but you have to yield to the trolley if it is coming towards you and your car is inside the white line (parallel parking on the road makes it a tight fit). When driving in the same direction as the trolley, if you are in front of it you can drive normally. There is no passing the trolley if you are behind it. The one exception to this rule is if it is 'laying over' at the end of the line and the warning lights are off. Hope this helps give you some ideas! 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, this not my video, but here is a clip of it from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LalgsrOJ4NY

Prr7688, I think this is the one. Thank you soooo much.

@ENichter posted:

Prr7688, I think this is the one. Thank you soooo much.

Happy to help! One last thing I forgot to mention, the lines stop at each intersection which you can see here: https://www.google.com/maps/@3...Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Make sure to post some pictures of your trolley line when you are finished!