March 11, 20196 yr Location? "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
March 12, 20196 yr Awesome! I especially like the ones on the closed road. No Allowed Clouds are going to get in the way of this bipping.
March 12, 20196 yr Post the locations with the photos. I know the closed street is Martin Drive/Adams Crossing because I've shot those tracks myself, but not everyone is a super sleuth.
March 12, 20196 yr Author It's in Hamilton Avenue in front of the comet, by Frederick. I love your site! I'm always on that map and reading the write ups.
March 13, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, Nowright said: It's in Hamilton Avenue in front of the comet, by Frederick. I love your site! I'm always on that map and reading the write ups. Hey thanks! I appreciate it.
August 10, 20195 yr Author Exposed streetcar tracks turning onto eastern avenue from private ROW and heading east. I saw this while looking at the ROW on google earth and decided I’d post them.
September 12, 20195 yr Author 3 hours ago, mrnyc said: oh man this just breaks your heart. very interesting for a thread though! Yeah it really does, thank you though!
November 18, 20195 yr Author Exposed streetcar tracks in Covington, Kentucky. Sorry for poor quality.
November 18, 20195 yr Author Streetcar tracks turning on May onto McMillan, and from oak onto May. The tracks are easy to see at most intersections in walnut hills.
June 2, 20205 yr A small section of old streetcar track dug out during utility work at Vine Street and Central Parkway.
August 11, 20204 yr Crews started jackhammering Bedinger Street today revealing some old rail underneath. I actually don't think these were streetcar tracks but rather freight rail tracks serving the former Times-Star Building and the Crane-Hawley Company (which later became the Hamilton County BOE and then the Crane Factory Flats).
August 11, 20204 yr Nice! And yes those were freight tracks that apparently pre-dated Times Star. They were already present in 1912. Mind if I add these to my website's CL&N Railroad gallery?
August 12, 20204 yr ^did the tracks directly serve a building that predated the Times-Star Building? The delivery of newsprint by rail was pretty common until recently (the Rochester Subway still delivered newsprint until around 1996), so if there was a printing operation there around 1900 it would have made sense.
August 12, 20204 yr 19 hours ago, jjakucyk said: Mind if I add these to my website's CL&N Railroad gallery? Sure! Here’s another update from today:
August 12, 20204 yr Awesome thanks! Those are classic railroad t-rails. Railroads (and previously interurban railways) pretty much always use t-rail with that simple symmetrical cross-section. If railroads ran in pavement, any flangeways were cast into the pavement itself. That's basically how our new streetcar's tracks are built. Older streetcar systems generally used girder rail with a flangeway cast into the rail itself. Railroads (and interurbans again) didn't like running their cars on those rails because the flangeway wasn't deep enough so all the weight on the wheels would go into the flange, which could cause stress fractures. That said, it looks like the Cincinnati Street Railway mixed t-rail and girder rail, at least by the 1920s. Originally they used girder rail everywhere, even on unpaved streets or private right-of-way, since it helps prevent derailment. As time went on it appears they started to use t-rail on straightaways with girder at curves and switches. On the other hand, it looks like all the rebuilt track around the Western Hills Viaduct in the 1930s used girder rail. I might need to ask some of the old-timers about this.
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