Up close and personal, for the town people that is.

[Robby P.]

Yes, thats the Brownsville in Fayette County.  My wife was coming home from work, and had the camera that day, and got it for me.  I really don't know how long this will last.  Some people say there town had this but now its gone.  Makes your wonder how much longer this will stay. 

[concretelackey]

Its a town called Brownsville, here in Pa.  I am guessing maybe the RR and then the houses.  Who knows.

Is that Brownsville in Fayette county? If so I have relatives with a Brownsville address (they live about a block off rt 40) and also relatives outside of Uniontown.

If that Brownsville is not the one in Fayette County then this post really don't matter...LOL

[PLSWJR]

Nice photo. I've been there and heldup by trains a few times, but just recently got a digital camera that I can care with me. My work ,as a surveyor, gets me into many good places for pics. Just this past summer I worked on a year we've worked on a few jobs near this intersection. Did you stop at the beer distributor for supplies, or just pull over to take a picture?

[Anonymous]

Its a town called Brownsville, here in Pa.  I am guessing maybe the RR and then the houses.  Who knows.

Elizabeth,PA. is like that too. Some of the pics on railpictures.net even show some BNSF locomotives passing through town.

[BNENGR]

I guess if you lived on that street you would'nt need a vibrating bed, huh?

[philnrunt]

  Great shot, and street running is always fun to watch. Elwood, In. has some NS trackage through the streets, used to be a very active main, not so much now, but watching 3 high hood SD45's lumbering down a residential street is something you never forget.

[eeyore9900]

Lee's pic reminds me of the long gone B&O industrial spur on the south side of Canton, Ohio which was pretty much in the middle of Navarre Rd. When I was 13 or 14 my dad & I went down that street, & we were treated to a B&O GP30 switching the lumber company there. We literally pulled up next to it & stopped at the traffic light, & just as the light turned green & we started to move, the Geep hit it's horn. (yes, we both jumped in our seats.)

There's a fellow south of Pittsburgh who has the CSX main run fairly close to his front door. He used to post fairly regularly on my railfan yahoo group on the types of trains & the loco #'s that past, & it was a great heads up for the westbound ones, as they would eventually go past where we railfan in Sterling Ohio. (about a 7 hr difference more or less.)

Always loved street tracks, & always will! 

[wm3798]

"Go Ahead, Buddy!  Take your half out of the middle!" 

"Typical GM driver, always cutting in front of the Fords..."

Lee 

[Flashwave]

Here in Seattle we have a load of old abandoned industrial spurs that go through the roadways. Now they're being converted into a light rail tram system.

Flashwave, that's some funny stuff!

Thanks.

I ran the math, somehow, a 397,000lb locomotive, just doesn't quite count as "Light Rail Tram" And the engine is currently 32,000 times over the weight limit

[Hoople]

Here in Seattle we have a load of old abandoned industrial spurs that go through the roadways. Now they're being converted into a light rail tram system.

Flashwave, that's some funny stuff!

[loathar]

That is so cool but I certainly would NOT want to live on that road or close to it.  That is not right at all.  But it sure does look cool!

I'd love to live there! I grew up about 300' from a double main line and loved it! The closer the better!

[Anonymous]

That is so cool but I certainly would NOT want to live on that road or close to it.  That is not right at all.  But it sure does look cool!

[Robby P.]

Its a town called Brownsville, here in Pa.  I am guessing maybe the RR and then the houses.  Who knows.

[Bapou]

  (See my comments in the picture below and you'll see why I'm laughing)

 

 

That is funny! !

[Flashwave]

South Shore here in Indy runs through town, and they have to stop at lights.

That pair of GP38s just ran the red.

You wann ask them for their licence and registration?

[WCfan]

I've always like street running. Around here we don't have any. But we do have the old CNW tracks going right through peoples back yards to get to 3M and Graphic packaging.

[Arjay1969]

  (See my comments in the picture below and you'll see why I'm laughing)

 

 

Dang.  That's what I get for having a job...I noticed that, and had a customer come up before I could post it.

 

There's a similar street run here in Bryan, TX.  One of the videos of the Challenger (couldn't tell you the producers right offhand) shows the big beast chugging slowly down the street trackage. 

[loathar]

I wonder which came first. The RR or the road and houses?

Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get out of the way of the train!!

[DigitalGriffin]

  (See my comments in the picture below and you'll see why I'm laughing)

 

[Renegade1c]

They something similar to this here in Colorado. In Fort Collins the UP Mainline runs right thru the middle of town. the train goes down the middle of the street much like the one shown here.

[wjstix]

I do sometimes miss having the trains come to me, up until 2006 I lived across the street from a rail line, took a lot of pictures from my bedroom window on the second floor of the house.

[ARTHILL]

That's a cool shot. Love the high bridge. Preaching in the church ought to be a challenge. I used to preach by the airport. It teaches one to pause. Where is the pic from?

[Robby P.]

Heres another shot I got of the train that takes the town over.  Now......Thats some easy railfaning, sit on the porch and watch the 5:00 barrell down main street.