Tipp City Visitor’s Bureau

Train

Train and Rail-Related Activities

Ah, the sound of the trains going clickety-clack over a dusty crossing, kicking up dust as the behemoth lumbers off into the distance, the horn warning the wary. Train history is fascinating. Here in Tipp we have the CSX line that passes through our downtown, rumbling our buildings upwards of 20 times a day. The horn? It’s loud.

Where to Enjoy - If you’re interested in watching the trains passing through Tipp, we can recommend a nice empty lot on Sixth Street behind the S&G Painting Building. There used to be an old building here but it was torn down recently and now there is an unobstructed view for at least a hundred feet in each direction up and down the tracks.

Local Train Events and Attractions:

Bradford Railroad Festival
Bradford Railroad Museum, 501 E Main St, Bradford OH 45308. Website
Sat, 6/17/07 10:00 am - 5:00 pm - Enjoy this small town festival featuring railroad museum tours, spike driving demo, railroad crafts, as well as chicken BBQ, train vendors, games, coal shoveling contest.

More information:

Here is some information from the Wright State University Library on the old Dayton Electric Railway:

“According to the collection, the city was serviced by four streetcar lines in 1918. They were The City Railway Company, The Dayton Street Railway Company, The Oakwood Railway Company, and The Peoples Railway Company. By 1930, this system had proliferated into six separate railway companies operating eleven streetcar lines, but no major bus line. Little cooperation existed between the different companies. For a city that was the size of Dayton, such a condition was unparalleled in the nation…”