Fred, the black/yellow one (335) is the newest, the yellow (324) is the predecessor.
Here a bit about our trams on Wikipedia if you’re interested. I would suggest, you translate the german page bit by bit. It holds a lot more information than the english side … 
Straßenbahn Karlsruhe – Wikipedia
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Not my home but my office. My office window looks directly out onto the main US North/South rail artery of the Norfolk Southern not 65 feet away.
I am seeing a major freight train moving either North or South nearly every 30 to 45 minutes.
Multiple unit trains, mid-train units and tail-end pushers!
A L-O-N-G Inter-modal just this morning.
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Great! Railroad eye candy !
3 Blocks from tracks . Can feel the house rattling as they go by and at times when they blow the horns for crossings sounds like they are in my back yard .
Also can hear the clackity clack of each section of track .
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Sounds like you live near jointed rail, which sounds like a secondary line or a spur. Is that right? I miss those sounds.
That sounds like the CNO&TP the NS now uses.
Yep! You got it!
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How close is the hobby shop you work at to Blue Door BBQ? We ate there back on the 3rd but did not have time to come over and visit. Next time I come through either, I want to come by and see what the hobby shop has.
On a distantly related topic; the local hobbyshop came across two sets of scale plan drawings in O scale of a CNO&TP Station in a recent estate liquidation. (Located in Northern Kentucky - Erlanger, KY)
$12 per set.+ tax & shipping.
These are beautiful multi-page engineering/construction grade drawings done in O scale and a model station could be built directly over them using them as a pattern with scale wooden materials.
I would be happy to help hook up any interested parties!
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Fred nothing in Lexington is very far apart. Google Maps could have gotten you there in 10-15 minutes. I think I had already sent you their address prior to your trip.
Berkshire Trains & Classic Toys
209 Rosemont Garden
(Right at the NS tracks)
Lexington, Kentucky
View from the front of the shop.
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Speaking of tracks close to my office; the hobbyshop next door has a 24/7 webcam set up on the crossing and the owner’s son tapes EVERY daylight train that passes and posts them on YouTube.
Here is the link:
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These images are not all that close to where I live, but I rode my bike past them this morning on my way to Point Richmond, maybe 13 or so miles from where I do live - interesting range of images:
This is of the big BNSF yard in Richmond CA, just north of Highway 580, long trains assembled here and this, a few miles away, short (line) train in the streets:
This shortline serves the Port of Richmond. They have a few engines, but until today I’d only seen them from about a mile away, from the freeway. Nice clean and quiet power serving local industry. It was pretty cool to see this, as I’ve often wondered about the line in general.
Cheers
Nick
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