Metra Electric
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024
- Join us at 55th/56th/57th Street station on the Metra Electric line in Hyde Park, near downtown Chicago, Illinois, while we railfan from the platform. Later we'll ride a train past 27th Street and 18th Street stations. Finally, we'll stop to watch trains at Van Buren Street station during weekday evening rush!
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@JLJ061 i think the current gong bells were placed in when the highliners got rehabbed in 1994
Always loved the looks of those cars. So distinct. And bring an I.C./I.C.G. fan I especially liked them with chararistic split or dotted rail logo. The RTA color scheme is pretty but I'm still partial to the old I.C colors of. burnt orange and chocolate brown. Just my opinion. Have a great weekend everyone 😀
Great shots! I grew up around this line all my life back when it was called "The I.C.". Really miss the old brown and orange Illinois Central color scheme.
steven williams I use to love the orange schemed highliners, until 3 or 5 of them was sitting at the Kensington yards back in 2006
qwandiddy I grew up near the blue island branch, and I would hear the trains blowing the horns
its nice to see the 2nd gens again
Looove your video, I miss the Highliners and the Brown and Orange 🚄
Me too😭😭😭😭
The old Highliners, a childhood memory I'll never forget. Grew up exposed to them on a regular basis living on the South side. In fact I can even remember seeing some of the few cars left in IC colors on the storage track at Randolph Street when I was little. It was back in June of 2007.
How old are you now?
@@oct197. I'm an old fart. I'm 19.
It's been almost 5 years since they been retired
@Hirohito Drip Productions you mean the Budd cars
@Hirohito Drip Productions both Pullman and Budd
Wow, this brings back memories! I rode these Highliners from the summer of 1991 to the spring of 1996, between Richton Park and Van Buren St./Jackson Blvd., when I worked at Carl Fischer Music on Wabash. My dad rode these trains between Homewood and Van Buren/Jackson from the fall of 1979 until the summer of 1990, when working for the former Santa Fe Railway at 80 E. Jackson. (He and Mom were transferred out of state at that point, then retirement in 1995.) Those were some great days riding those trains, though it didn't always feel like it at the time. On one of my trips home, on train #707, we snagged a power line at Kensington, and the wire came down over the train, sparking like crazy! I think we sat stalled for at least an hour, before we were transferred to another train or busses... can't remember now how we got home. Some wild times!
I remember the orange schemed highliners stored at Van Buren Street and at Kensington yards on the far south side I wanna say 2006/2007 probably
Ty Hik hold up. If the orange ones have a different bell, does that mean the door closing sounds are different?
@@cat1554 They didn't have the door closing announcement. They had buzzers.
@@tyhik9338 I remember hearing the buzzer sound of the passenger cars closing.
@@CSullivanmeerkatmandude me too
i miss the blue striped ones
We love you highliners
Unfortunately I have not been back to Chicago since. Maybe those of us who went should plan a 20 year anniversary trip next year. Glad you liked the video.
@moonoink If you mean the gong bells yes they used to use those before they were replaced... not really sure when.
Who else misses the highliners?
I fricken knew you would be in this video
@@oct197. lol
@moonoink
Yes, the Highliners in the IC/RTA days had the crossing-like bells on the front, much like the nose bells on the CNW. Pretty interesting.
Ah, yes. Illinois Central. Brings back memories. I visited the Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) in 1986 near Omaha, NE. Their engines were ex-IC. But with the new white and orange livery!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hi highliners
I grew up right next to the Racine stop. Seeing these everyday from anyplace in the house was great! I do miss these trains now that I'm in Omaha :(
There's not really a lot of action. A lot of UP traffic by pass Omaha via Missouri Valley to Fremont. While BNSF runs most traffic from Lincoln on the Ashland to Plattsmouth main line bypassing Omaha. There is more train traffic on Metra's Blue Island or South Chicago branch than here.
Why can't metra be like that today? Oh wait it is. GOTTA GO TO CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!
Not bad. I always enjoy watching Metra Electric trains since I grew up in Hyde Park. I've got a few videos up on You Tube, but they're more recent. Appreciate the share.
I remember riding one of those old metra electrics when I was like 7 Before they god replaced with the new ones.
Throwback metra
Many times I have taken the Metra Electric to 57th street to go to the Museum of Science and Industry
I live on the south side near the South Chicago branch so I get to see the trains go by each day. I'll be sad when they retire the old Highliners that are left. I miss the old color scheme on them
The old "St Louie" Highliners were like a "good ole" comfortable pair of house shoes; I am truly going to miss them. The new 1200 series Highliners are O.K., but they have no style as they are so identical to the push/pull stainless steel cars that operate on Metra's diesel commuter runs.
That's a shame. But I've never seen the new 1200 series. It's been twenty years. Glad you liked the video.
Retro Railroading Do you have any more metra electric video's on the way?
TheChicagoL now these great cars are now retired
qwandiddy I like the old and the new cars
These were definitely South side legends.
All of the Brown N' Orange cars, have been retired, being replaced by what I would call, "the Highliner II"s, which went into service, sometime around 2005.
Gerald McManamon Did you see any at KYD when they retired in 2007?
Gerald McManamon I remember that, I was only 6 year's old when I first saw the new highliners
You could say that. But unlike the Northeast Corridor, there are two electrified lines in Chicagoland: Metra and the South Shore. I have South Shore videos from this era in my Commuter Consists playlist.
The highliners used to have the same bell like the south shore trains have?
@moonoink, the pitch we hear varies depending on the speed and direction of the train: bells moving towards us are higher pitched then bells moving away. So it's possible that the tone of the bells on two trains moving at different speeds will sound the same even if while stationary the bells sound quite different.
Glad you liked the video. I've got maybe a half-dozen Metra related videos. Search jpkazarian metra or look at the Commuter Consists playlist.
Retro Railroading can you make another metra electric video?
0:14 those car had South Shore-style bells too?!
Those cars looked pretty good in the modified IC orange and black!
I've seen the Highliner pair a the B&SV in 2008, and probably one of their last runs in June 16-18 2014, so I've seen some of these cars! Too bad South Shore didn't acquire some of these instead of buying new bilevel cars!
@jpkazarian i wonder how the old horn sounded like on the highliners before they got rehabbed
Don't tempt me. I haven't been back in eighteen years. Glad you enjoyed the video.
So Metra's electric route was sort of like the Northeast Corridor of Chicago?
South with Southeast and southwest branches to South Chicago (neighborhood) and to Blue Island, adjacent to the Rock Island.