Street running

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

CSS&SB still runs on 10th and 11th Streets in Michigan City for both passenger and freight service. The shops are just beyond the east end of the street running section.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

CSS&SB still runs on 10th and 11th Streets in Michigan City for both passenger and freight service. The shops are just beyond the east end of the street running section.

[Anonymous]

Bedford, Ind. Right through the public square. CSX (former Monon RR). Now used by Soo (CP) Line.

[Anonymous]

Bedford, Ind. Right through the public square. CSX (former Monon RR). Now used by Soo (CP) Line.

[jsanchez]

CSX runs down, Zack Street in Downtown Tampa, usually at night a couple times each evening. The traffic on this line has steadily increased the last few years, the line goes to Port Tampa. It is one of the few examples of street running left in a major city downtown. Definately worth checking out.

[jsanchez]

CSX runs down, Zack Street in Downtown Tampa, usually at night a couple times each evening. The traffic on this line has steadily increased the last few years, the line goes to Port Tampa. It is one of the few examples of street running left in a major city downtown. Definately worth checking out.

[Anonymous]

bigb, MR did a project railroad on the Union Freight RR in Boston several years ago. Most street operations are gone as containers replaced break-bulk and box cars, and condos replaced warehouses.

[Anonymous]

bigb, MR did a project railroad on the Union Freight RR in Boston several years ago. Most street operations are gone as containers replaced break-bulk and box cars, and condos replaced warehouses.

[MP57313]

Try port areas of large cities for street running.

In the Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor area/Wilmington, the Pacific Harbor Line has some street trackage.

In the downtown Los Angeles area, the SP had a track down the middle of Alameda Street until the 1980s, when the northern section was abandoned. Some of the rails are still there. Further south, the Alameda Corrdior was built in a median area of Alameda St. but it did not actually replace street running.

A former Pacific Electric segment now operated by UP runs in Vermont Ave. in Gardena.

As for New England, Boston had a switching line between North and South stations but it was already abandoned when I explored it around 1971. Other pier areas probably still have tracks.

[MP57313]

Try port areas of large cities for street running.

In the Los Angeles/Long Beach harbor area/Wilmington, the Pacific Harbor Line has some street trackage.

In the downtown Los Angeles area, the SP had a track down the middle of Alameda Street until the 1980s, when the northern section was abandoned. Some of the rails are still there. Further south, the Alameda Corrdior was built in a median area of Alameda St. but it did not actually replace street running.

A former Pacific Electric segment now operated by UP runs in Vermont Ave. in Gardena.

As for New England, Boston had a switching line between North and South stations but it was already abandoned when I explored it around 1971. Other pier areas probably still have tracks.

[Anonymous]

Oltmannd, that site's picture was pretty good. I was wondering also if anyone knew if there are street runnings in the New England area.

[Anonymous]

Oltmannd, that site's picture was pretty good. I was wondering also if anyone knew if there are street runnings in the New England area.

[corwinda]

Central Oregon and Pacific has some street running in Coos Bay OR. Former SP track.

[corwinda]

Central Oregon and Pacific has some street running in Coos Bay OR. Former SP track.

[zardoz]

oltmannd-
Thanks so much for including the link; I did not know of that site. Sure has a lot of nice photos. I just might submit a few.

[zardoz]

oltmannd-
Thanks so much for including the link; I did not know of that site. Sure has a lot of nice photos. I just might submit a few.

[oltmannd]

Here is a picture of the W&P in Corvalis.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=16570
Not only to the "run" in the street, they "park" there as well (good thing there's no meter!)

[oltmannd]

Here is a picture of the W&P in Corvalis.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=16570
Not only to the "run" in the street, they "park" there as well (good thing there's no meter!)

[Anonymous]

CSX has street running in St Marys and Williamstown West Virginia. And just across the river in Marietta Ohio

[Anonymous]

CSX has street running in St Marys and Williamstown West Virginia. And just across the river in Marietta Ohio

[kenneo]

Former SP Tillamook Branch in Hillsboro, OR (now Portland and Western) and former SP in Corvallis, OR (now Willamette and Pacific). I don't know if the street running in Independence, OR is still there, the OE (BNSF now W&P) in Albany may still have the right-of-way as a public street.

[kenneo]

Former SP Tillamook Branch in Hillsboro, OR (now Portland and Western) and former SP in Corvallis, OR (now Willamette and Pacific). I don't know if the street running in Independence, OR is still there, the OE (BNSF now W&P) in Albany may still have the right-of-way as a public street.

[Anonymous]

If they still use it, the CSS+SB runs on a street in Michigan City, IN.

[Anonymous]

If they still use it, the CSS+SB runs on a street in Michigan City, IN.

[Anonymous]

West Brownsville, Pa.- Norfolk Southern with coal drags, day and night.
Across the Mon river, CSX has trains thought the towns of Newell, Pa. and Elizabeth, Pa.. All of this action about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa..

[Anonymous]

West Brownsville, Pa.- Norfolk Southern with coal drags, day and night.
Across the Mon river, CSX has trains thought the towns of Newell, Pa. and Elizabeth, Pa.. All of this action about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pa..

[Anonymous]

Up through the late 1980s, Union Pacific ran freight trains up the middle of Main Street in Chico, California, then in a park strip alongside the Esplanade to reach private right of way to the Chico Industrial Park. The track was inherited from the Sacramento Northern, an interurban electric streetcar line that ran about 180 miles from Chico to Oakland (and for a few months in the thirties across the Oakland Bay Bridge into San Francisco); it crossed the Sacramento river on its own ferry near the present streetcar museum at Rio Vista. The museum uses a remnant of the SN track.

[Anonymous]

Up through the late 1980s, Union Pacific ran freight trains up the middle of Main Street in Chico, California, then in a park strip alongside the Esplanade to reach private right of way to the Chico Industrial Park. The track was inherited from the Sacramento Northern, an interurban electric streetcar line that ran about 180 miles from Chico to Oakland (and for a few months in the thirties across the Oakland Bay Bridge into San Francisco); it crossed the Sacramento river on its own ferry near the present streetcar museum at Rio Vista. The museum uses a remnant of the SN track.

[louisnash]

Bigbedroom6,
On that video it has Lagrange KY of having street running. Very nice town and it runs right through their central business district. Not no little short line, but a class one RR. It is well worth the $30.00 to pay for it if you are interested in street running. I rate it one of the best I have seen.

Brian (KY)