BL2 wrote:I don't know whats going on there, I can see them fine on the thread
I can't even find them on your Flickr page. but I don't knowe what I;m looking for
-Morgan
BL2's photographs aren't available for viewing. What gives?
Mark
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Cool, thanks.
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wjstix wrote:In the future, I imagine tiny videocameras on servos will be common trackside at good model railroad 'railfanning' locations. You'll wear a "virtual reality" helmet, and by turning to the left or right, cause the servo to move the camera to the left or right. Authentic synchronized engine sounds will be fed into the headphones in the helmet as the train passes, and there will be background noises too. Of course, there will be similar cameras in engine cabs, cabooses and passenger cars if you wish to ride along the train while it's running.
stix, I think that would really be neat looking forward from a Vista Dome.
Doug
May your flanges always stay BETWEEN the rails
BL2 wrote: " border="0" />looking south? to bridge approach, the line on the left of pic" border="0" />in this shot looking the opposite direction its the line to the right, thanks!Any help would be appreciatedthese pics from Monon society websiteWarren
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looking south? to bridge approach, the line on the left of pic
in this shot looking the opposite direction its the line to the right, thanks!
Any help would be appreciated
these pics from Monon society website
Warren
But hey, look what I found.
http://208.119.135.17/db/markers_test/markers_display.asp?ID=533
I've always been interested in the street trackage in New Albany Indiana,the ex Monon track joined with another?for the journey over the Ohio River to Kentucky, different pics show tracks parallel to the monons' which curve off the street in the opposite direction, any idea whose trackage that was (I say was as later photos I've seen show only the Monon trackage), I believe that right before the bridge approach began there was a right angle crossing of more tracks....interurban? I think.
Any further information here would be appreciated, Australia is just a bit to far for a quick field trip.
Thanks
I almost forgot I had these...
That was the last train to use the trackage in Boston Street in East Baltimore back in 1987.
Since then the industrial waterfront has been converted into Yuppie Land.
Lee
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And from there, If I can find a camera small enough, I want to put one in one of these
And park it by or between the double track main. Have a camera peaking out and getting to see two trains pass under. Even put these on a website as web cams. Mind you, seeing as all this is going on a first try layout, It'll be a little while.
EDIT: Lee, Good to hear there's still a prototype for everything. My thoughts too in a change of set up
Thanks for all the help!
You also have to take into account that back here in the east, many of the city street grids were started before the railroad came to town. Since the railroad is dependent on grade, it's right of way is often in conflict with the existing street grid.
B&O (circa 1880) crosses Falls Road (circa 1760?) in Baltimore.
In the case of an industrial area with street trackage, that might mean a new street was laid out to provide a place for the trains to get through town. In a smaller town, it might mean that everything is nice and tidy until you get close to the tracks.
CSX passes through Meyersdale, PA at a striking angle compared to the street grid
Neither of the above are street trackage, but they demonstrate why things don't always look the way we think they should. I believe such deviations from the norm make for more interesting scenery.
Going back to the point of a main street cutting across the typical N-S/E-W grid, we have that here in Sin City. The basic grid is North-South by East-West. The original key route through town runs SE-NW, angling across all those compass-aligned streets and avenues.
While Rancho Drive/Fremont Street/Boulder Highway never had a railroad track on it, the stark contrast of that one diagonal slash across town is striking, whether on a map or a satellite view.
There are plenty of places where the street layout (or the railroad track not in a street layout) dictated the architecture of the adjacent buildings. Anything from a clipped corner on an otherwise rectangular structure to a single wall at an odd angle to a purely triangular floor plan is possible. One of the sample photos that came with my computer is of the Flatiron Building, New York's first skyscraper. If it was a turnout frog, it would be about a #3, with two long walls meeting at an acute angle, connected by a short wall at the building's rear. In my boyhood home town, Broadway is at an angle to the compass grid. (Google Map Times Square, then follow Broadway southeast and you'll find the Flatiron Building.)
I like the idea of putting TV cameras in trackside structures. Have to think about where that might be appropriate on my garage filler.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
"Rust, whats not to love?"
Robby P. wrote: Heres some photos of some street running. I have posted them before, and they don't really have any switch stands. But they are up to date shots. Maybe a few months old, and still showing they are used.
Heres some photos of some street running. I have posted them before, and they don't really have any switch stands. But they are up to date shots. Maybe a few months old, and still showing they are used.
Yep, that;s the look I want.
Regarding that Visalia photo pictured above: do you think the switch stand is out of sight, aside the curb on the left (north) side of the road? Note the line in the street from the points going directly toward the curb.
dehusman wrote: How come all the buildings in the town are lined up N-S but the road goes thru the town on a diagonal? That seems very odd. You appear to be forcing the trackage to run through the streets. If you put the roads running N-S to match the buildings that would solve about 90% of your problems. If you absolutely need to make things hard on yourself, then at least run the buildings and cross streets perpendicular to the road the railroad is on and make it look like its the main drag. The other way to do this is to make the diagonal road an "alley" and put the "main drag" on the "front" side of the buildings.Dave H.
How come all the buildings in the town are lined up N-S but the road goes thru the town on a diagonal? That seems very odd. You appear to be forcing the trackage to run through the streets. If you put the roads running N-S to match the buildings that would solve about 90% of your problems. If you absolutely need to make things hard on yourself, then at least run the buildings and cross streets perpendicular to the road the railroad is on and make it look like its the main drag. The other way to do this is to make the diagonal road an "alley" and put the "main drag" on the "front" side of the buildings.
Dave H.
because the image I have going in my head looks far better with the town at an angle. if we turn the town away from the track, even just the storefronts, the town loses the whole railfan joy it was designed for. the plan is to possibly hide little video cameras in windows to watch the trains from the cafe. I could and probablly will turn the buildings on the main line. But that's not what I want to do. And it might help if I wasn't hurrying something up for us to work with. There's quite a few towns with mainstreet turned at angle to the roads.
Here is a tracks-in-the-street photo looking east down Oak Street in Visalia, CA. Both old and new S.P. stations are visible. It looks like the older (further) station has a house track between it and (south of) the mainline. Note the switch in the foreground accessing the siding north of the mainline: it has the normal two points.
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dehusman wrote: I believe a point being overlooked is that all the examples have been from traction railroads or industrial leads/branches of class one railroads. The OP said this was a main track. I doubt they would be using single point switches in a main track on a class one railroad. Since the OP poster said that the main line ran through the town on an angle, that would imply there were places where the track was NOT in the street. That's where switches would be located. Main track switches buried in a street would be severely speed restricted (and a maintenance nightmare for the railroad). If they HAD to put a switch in the street they would make a siding or lead and then have the switches break off of that.As to where the train would stop they would have to make some sort of arrangement to stop traffic, so no vehicles could pass between the station and the train for safety. If the tracks are going through town at an angle, then the train would most likely have the street blocked, then it would simply be a matter of letting the passengers out on the side of the train where the train had the cars blocked. The conductor would get off first and put a step stool by the platform steps on the street, just as he would at any low level platform.Dave H.Dave H.
I believe a point being overlooked is that all the examples have been from traction railroads or industrial leads/branches of class one railroads. The OP said this was a main track. I doubt they would be using single point switches in a main track on a class one railroad. Since the OP poster said that the main line ran through the town on an angle, that would imply there were places where the track was NOT in the street. That's where switches would be located. Main track switches buried in a street would be severely speed restricted (and a maintenance nightmare for the railroad). If they HAD to put a switch in the street they would make a siding or lead and then have the switches break off of that.
As to where the train would stop they would have to make some sort of arrangement to stop traffic, so no vehicles could pass between the station and the train for safety. If the tracks are going through town at an angle, then the train would most likely have the street blocked, then it would simply be a matter of letting the passengers out on the side of the train where the train had the cars blocked. The conductor would get off first and put a step stool by the platform steps on the street, just as he would at any low level platform.
We thank you for the compliments, but Main track? yes. Class one? we could only dream. Unless I get an urge to pretned a different roadTheoretically, we would have runthroughs though. The majority of the switches would only be used by slow moving switchers anyway. In one varient of the plan, the train could come up to the platform. I had the town using the track area as a main street, since it's an old river (okay, lake) town and having the opportunity for trucks/horse and wagons depending on era to follow the cars in would be prefferred.
Here's a VERY rough draft. This isn't all the buisness and buisnesses will change. Course, you don't know what some of those are, either. This is also a bad approximation of streets, which will probably be more numerous and running in standard left right/up down directions.
There should be some industry in the top left corner, related to the lake.
dehusman wrote: I believe a point being overlooked is that all the examples have been from traction railroads or industrial leads/branches of class one railroads. The OP said this was a main track. I doubt they would be using single point switches in a main track on a class one railroad. Since the OP poster said that the main line ran through the town on an angle, that would imply there were places where the track was NOT in the street. That's where switches would be located. Main track switches buried in a street would be severely speed restricted (and a maintenance nightmare for the railroad). If they HAD to put a switch in the street they would make a siding or lead and then have the switches break off of that.Dave H.
Dave makes sense. Regardless, any trains would move very slowly down the street.
I posted the following picture recently on another thread. In case you missed it, here is a log train running down the center of Main Street, Sebastopol, CA on the Petaluma & Santa Rosa of SP's subsidiary Northwestern Pacific on a damp day in January 1948.
A couple of years ago I was in Santa Cruz, CA and observed a UP freight train going down the street on its way to the cement plant in Davenport. Now I'm kicking myself for failing to observe how any switches were laid out.
This site has instructions on how to build a single-point switch:
http://www.trolleyville.com/tv/school/single_point_switch/index.shtml
Here's some street trackage that was located in East Baltimore, I believe around Fells Point. They were all single points.
Note that the movable point is on the frog side rail.
All the paving was cobblestones, probably in place since the turn of the last century. This track had been out of service for about 5 years when I shot it back in the early 80's. It's all been pulled up since then.