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That CNW F40PH had port holes!

This is the Chicago I remember. Dirty, grimey, industrial... the shiny new Chicago is a completely different place.

My father was an executive officer with the Southern Pacific during this time. In the San Francisco he headed the communications department for the railroad. And charge of anything to do with communicating It was his department. At that time they had the largest privately owned microwave system in the world

That was a Great video on showing what the railroading is in the great North Western USA and I really like that video a lot that would be my favorite video of the North Western Railroading

Had SP trains running right next to my parents house in Napa, CA. Of course, it hasn't run for decades. But thanks for the video and the memories

My mechanical career is with ROTARY printing equipment that had thousands of bearings in a machine, might even be over 10,000 in a 10 color press and inline converter operation.

Wow how much of ALL of this has changed, then again, the track layouts still look very similar to today. I must find more train videos of Atlanta pre-2010s.

Thank-you so much for this historically significant video! It brought both joy and fond memories to a railfan! Specifically, my Dec. 1976 change of trains in Chicago. I came in from Memphis on "The Panama Limited" departing Memphis around midnight and arriving Union Station Chicago on time in the morning on heritage equipment, much better than the small windowed Amfleet cars of today. I visited my cousin in the windy city, and then departed Chicago that same evening on "The Broadway Limited" to Trenton NJ, arriving early afternoon the following day. Both trips were quicker than the Amtrak schedules of today (of course Amtrak doesn't even run the Broadway anymore). Back then the old IC main line was still double tracked, and during the night I remember "Panama" going very fast, to put it mildly, but i still was able to sleep in coach that night. By the way, I have a 12/1950 timetable of the Illinois Central, and The City of New Orleans, which Amtrak runs today, was about 3 hours faster in 1950 than in 2024. Northbound it departed New Orleans at 7:45 am, arriving in Chicago 11:55pm the same day with a similar schedule southbound. I do miss the old cars of the predecessor railroads pre-Amtrak. There was much more variety of equipment; and it helped make a trip for a rail fan more interesting. I realize that the Amtrak of today has its schedules compromised by freight railroads.

great shot at 19:00 of high hood with long hood forward

WHAT! NO GRAFFITI!

8:05 Can someone tell me which railroad crossing that was filmed at?

I say, the Milwaukee Road should be revived, all their electric lines reinstalled, and the first transcontinental Electric Railroad line established.

Southern Pacific U50 AND DD35 R.I.P

Chicago is the railroad capital of the country. We even have the last electric interurban. the Southshore line.

Nice!

Absolutely marvelous footage of the beloved Southern Crescent at Brookwood.

That Shay has been to a lot of places. First the West Side Lumber, then here, then to Georgetown, and finally to Golden, Colorado.

I remember hearing the old C&NW engine depart from several blocks away in my bedroom before I went to sleep. I will never forget it.

Great video

My brother in law has an old 2 man McCullough chain saw we give a display at our old engine show and it’s a bear to operate. Surprised to see one in this video. Great video!

Who remembers the small train museum on the corner of W 3rd St. and W 2nd St. at the base of the Broadway Bridge? It was more of a place where old passenger cars were stored and then opened up to visitors on Saturdays. You could go in and walk through the passenger cars... today all the tracks are long gone and the entire area is developed and an apartment complex now sits there...

When vehicles could be transported in trains wide open

Still many old brick buildings with painted advertising.

There’s a charm about old 8 mil. Film.

Beyond BFOT

Hard to believe I ride the Empire Builder that has the same cars shown on this film. Considering that, they’re actually in decent shape!

Great collection of footage.

Don't think I ever noticed a Geep with its steam-generator active!

You can’t convince me that some of those Metra passenger cars aren’t still in use today!

Very high quality video for the 1970s. I love that it has audio as many do not.

Thank you, Nick.

I remember, pre-Amtrak, when we would go to the various stations in Chicago. They were like railway museums, with so many train companies with their own car styles, locos, and paint schemes. So bland nowdays.

Very cool. Open car carriers! What has happened to our society where now everything must be locked up? Very sad, lack of respect with people.

One of the best parts of this memeriable video is not annoying music. The sights & sounds of the day is more than enough. Thank you for your video.

Thanks for posting this video! Was that an Amtrak turboliner?! WOW! THIS IS an incredible video! This gives us model railroaders an insight on the equipment that was used back then to replicate on a layout! Again, thanks for posting this!

My grandmother’s house was 200 feet from the KCS mainline in Ravanna, Arkansas. This brings back memories of those days when I’d spend hours waiting for and watching trains. I loved those old ghosts.

I really enjoyed reading the comments on this video, I also remember the 70’s as a boy, I was born in Sacramento in 1965 and lived in Roseville when the Roseville yard blew up! That was insane, the house rattled forever it seemed. Then a year later we moved to Dunsmuir then Klamath Falls, OR. Dad worked for SP since 1965 and hired out of Oakland and retired about 12-15 years ago. I remember rural California just as seen in this video, everything then was a lot slower and wasn’t flooded with people. Then I consider how life is today for the people in California and it’s shocking how people tolerate all the garbage from the State government, not to mention how bad the illegal immigrant population has grown to, unbelievable. We sacrificed so much to build our country and State all to just gradually give it over to a replacement population. Oh well.

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I miss the E and F units.

GP30s are always a welcome sight!

There are no words to describe what an astounding, awesome, incredible find this is Thank you so much

2:56 This unit (96-C) ran trains at the Indiana Transportation Museum for several years. It hasn't run in a while and right now it's sitting in a field with a few other former ITM units, awaiting eventual pickup and delivery to the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society. I'm not sure if they just plan on cosmetic restoration or getting everything running, but they've got a long way to go either way.

So many of those tracks have been ripped up since then.

I don't think I've ever seen footage of early geeps moving so fast. Clip at 5:11 is amazing

Some of the crisper and clearer '70s footage I've seen! The sound always adds so much too. The looks of the trains already had a lot more personality than today, but the sounds seem to even more so. So many mechanical bells, EMD 567s, and a wider variety of horns.

Great stuff! We railfanned as kids in those times.

Feel bad for those engineers who forgot to hook up. Just imagine how embarrassing it must have been when they made their 1st stop.

This has to be fake or photoshopped/edited. There was no graffiti ANYWHERE!!? Not on the rail cars, street signs, building walls, bridges, basically anywhere spray paint could be applied 😂🤣 j/k. Great video though, thanks 👍

Do Roosevelt Rd - 1977

Amazing footage!! The sights of railroads in the past are always one thing, but the sounds are a whole different level. Also, I was frantically trying to track down the location of the shot at 11:03. Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I'd been at that same crossing in recent years on a trip to Chicago, but I doubted myself on it. Turns out I was right, and it's on Canal St. It just struck me as odd that there was an at-grade crossing in downtown Chicago when I crossed there, but I assumed there were probably several more at the time of the video and the one seen here was probably somewhere else. As of 2021, it looks like the Cassidy Tire building in the background is still standing and doing good business. There's still quite a bit of crossing equipment there and even a mechanical bell still on one of the signals as of the 2021 shot. Edit: Comments That Aged Poorly. Street View is outdated and a high rise has been built where Cassidy was in the past few years. There's pretty much nothing historic left in that spot.