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bfwissel Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Location? "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Hamilton ave in front of the comet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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GCrites Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 Awesome! I especially like the ones on the closed road. No Allowed Clouds are going to get in the way of this bipping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakucyk Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 Street car tracks on tenth and Washington in Newport Kentucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 Street car tracks and old pavement on Harrison avenue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakucyk Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 Streetcar tracks turning off of baymiller in Brighton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 Exposed streetcar tracks on west Clifton. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrnyc Posted September 12, 2019 Share Posted September 12, 2019 oh man this just breaks your heart. very interesting for a thread though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted September 12, 2019 Author Share Posted September 12, 2019 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Exposed streetcar tracks in Covington, Kentucky. Sorry for poor quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nowright Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Streetcar tracks turning on May onto McMillan, and from oak onto May. The tracks are easy to see at most intersections in walnut hills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taestell Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 A small section of old streetcar track dug out during utility work at Vine Street and Central Parkway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taestell Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 @5chw4r7z also captured the same thing on West 4th Street: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taestell Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 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). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakucyk Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jmecklenborg Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 ^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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taestell Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 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: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjakucyk Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 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. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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