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I personally don’t have any street running incorporated into my layout or the clubs modular layout, but I do have it high on my wish list of things to model.

I might have to compromise by running trolleys on something like the Bachman EZ Streets.

However, really enjoy looking at old pictures (or even LaGrange KY which I have visited several times) to watch the street action.

Charlie

All these people including me have been to LaGrange, Ky. ? I was startled after the stop light turned red to have a road engine and train go by right under my nose, as first in line.  I think that was the one time I've seen a train through there, and only once along there where they daylighted that tunnel west of Carrollton.  It has to be time of day and not seeing trains, and thinking none are likely, that creates complacency that gets people killed, as discussed in the other posting.

Good afternoon, I don't have any photo's to add for street running trains but I do remember when my wife and I first moved to Clearfield PA in 1988.

We where a bar downtown on a Saturday evening having some buffalo wings which were the rage at that time. As we were enjoying our wings and washing them down with some cold beers the entire building began to rumble and the rumbling kept getting more intense.

We looked around and nobody else in the bar seem to be alarmed by this, so now we are thinking maybe we should stop with the beers.

As the rumbling continued we went to the front door and was greeted by a Conrail engine crew that was asking about moving cars from the street so they could go thru.

Like a couple of tourist we stood there in front of the bar and watched the entire coal train go up thru town.

The waitress that was working our table thought we cut out without paying and was glad to see us when we came back in the bar.

It was only a couple of years later the track up this street was removed and the street was repaved.

It was still a neat sight to see the train coming up the street.

 

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