Perhaps you meant an embarcadero.
Bill, The Floridian used the former Monon Route from Chicago to Louisville from 1975 until 1979 (which the Cardinal/Hoosier State currently uses from Chicago to Crawfordsville), there was street running in Bloomington, Bedford and New Albany. Up until the 1930s, Interurban Lines ran through the streets of many cities in Indiana. The Monon was not an interurban, but also had a lot of street running in Indiana. CSX Freight trains still run along quite a few blocks of 15th Street in New Albany which is a residential street with homes of both sides. It was neat to sit in the dome car of the Floridian and wave to people sitting on their porches, waving as the train passed.
The CZ stops in the street in Reno, NV. I was once eating lunch in the dining car looking out at the cars facing us waiting and drivers fuming.
Hasn't since the Reno trench was completed a few years ago.
Yeah. After they built the Reno Trench, the CZ stops (and stops for longer) below street level! There are no longer grade crossings in downtown Reno.
From Google maps and satellite images, it looks like the train runs down the middle of Washington Street.
Just checked, it was six years ago.
Yes, but not near as much as on the detour line through Plaquemine, LA.
The Reno tracks were relocated into a subgrade "trench" about four years ago. Downtown streets are no longer affected by Amtrak or Union Pacific operations.
Looking at Google maps and the "street view," it appears that the latter is the case. Even though the tracks are nominally in the center of 3rd Street, traffic actually passes on one-way streets on either side (or, in the area of the station, through a possibly two-way alley on the opposite side of the tracks). At no point does it appear that vehicles are able to physically operate on the tracks, except to cross them at a regular grade crossing.
