North Shore Electric Railroad -like you've never seen before.
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2023
- Never Before Seen Kodak 16 mm Color Film in our "Midwest Electric Rails" www.cspmovies.com
We are proud to release "Midwest Electric Rails", our most ambitious production to date. This extensive presentation will paint the transportation picture that once wrapped around the lower part of the Lake Michigan-from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, down through Chicago, Illinois and ending in South Bend Indiana. The Chicago streetcar lines were claimed to be the largest system of its kind at one time. From 1858 it grew from a number of small lines using horse-drawn trolleys that ran on tracks in the street. The scenes you are about to view are nearly all from the 1950 period to the early 1960's. Most of these electric interurban lines are gone with one exception. Plus, we have a few other surprises of how people commuted and traveled in these areas. This program has a wealth of color movie film mainly from the 1950's, through the changes into the 1960s. The accurate sound recordings, accompanying these movie scenes, bring back the auditory experience of living in those bygone years. Maps and graphics were specially created to enhance the relevance of the beautiful and nostalgic color movie scenes. These are presented with a well-researched and meaningful historic narrative.
It took many more years of smaller lines combining into what eventually was one giant system. The Chicago Surface Lines boasted 1000 miles of track and over 3000 streetcars of various designs. See hundreds of nostalgic views of streetcars, interurban trains, city and suburban life.
Sparkling beautiful 16mm color film Visions you can no longer see today! 
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A childhood friend and myself lived just a few blocks from the North Shore Line in the south side of Milwaukee. We watched the trains come and go. Lots on memories. Great video.
My grandfather Paul Kerpan lived at north Chicago was in charge of a crew building the north shore
I loved this video! I "came of age" years after the North Shore Line was gone, but I can re live the system through books and DVDs. I wish this railroad was still in service!
Great to relive the old days, thanks for watching!
I came along long after the North Shore Line was gone, too. And I also relive the system through books and DVDs. There's also HO scale brass models of the North Shore Line. HO brass models are my favorite way of keeping the memories of the NSL alive. 🚎
I was born in 1960 and never traveled on this train, yet oddly I have dreams about riding this train before I saw the video and knew of it's existence.
I grew up in Waukegan, Ill in the 1950's - the tracks were right behind my house, and these scenes were an everyday occurrence.
What a great video. I had no idea a trolley line would run for 86 miles and at the speeds indicated in the narrative. Must have been a great way to travel.
In the 1940s, my father and his siblings rode the North Shore from the suburb of Highland Park to a stop for St. George High School in Evanston.
He had a deep seated love of trains.
Heard they ran even faster, but reduced speed limit because the crossing gates were too slow lol
I grew up at 12th and Washington streets in Milwaukee, 6 blocks from the line. We rode our bikes down there to see the trains ofthen. I have a penny that was flattened by a train. Also remeber the private right of way that carried the trains from 6th Street onto 5th Street. I later was just learning to drive (in traffic, with the trains), while the line was still operating.
I live in the Philadelphia suburbs and never visited Chicago till long after the North Shore ended service. I did get to ride the last remanent of it on CTA’s Skokie Swift. I also got to experience some of the old railroad when my suburban transit company bought the two electro liners and ran them on their Norristown grade separated line. When I went to college I got a job that required me to ride part of the Norristown line. Ocassionaly I got to experience the high speed running of the Liberty Liners as Red Arrow called them. They also did keep limited food and beverage service where the North Shore had food service. I turned 21 and even hosted a party to celebrate and have my first alcoholic drink on board. I am glad to know both sets are now preserved at museums and are operated on occasion.
The Red Arrow opted for a "rolling tavern" ambience, took out a Liquor License, and made the 'liners profitable that way. The bobsled course that was the Norristown line prevented operators from exploiting the full speed potential of the trains, nevertheless they were a pleasure to ride.
One operator tried to show off for me, and got a 'liner up to 80 MPH for all of one second, between Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Ardmore Ave., then had to slow right down for the Ardmore Avenue curve.
The former North Shore ROW, which is mostly paths now, would make a perfect HSR line between Chicago and Milwaukee. Lack of foresight seems to be the bane of alternative transportation in this country. Auto manufactures, politicians and airlines marginalized the the most reliable mode of transport in this nation. It's irritating to consider.
@J3scribe: The right of way would be great to have a railroad very much like the SOUTH SHORE LINE. Also very much like the SEPTA REGIONAL ELECTRIC RAILROADS in and around Philadelphia. There are parallel abandoned CNW right of ways that could also be utilized and the NORTH SHORE LINE could have its own right of way and have a terminal somewhere in Streeterville in Chicago just north of the Olgalvie METRA Transportation Terminal. The North Shore Line wouldn't have conform to CTA's car restrictions and dimensions if it had its own right of way.
Wonderful video, thanks for presentation, from Germany
Marvellous!
Loved this!
Really cool. Just out of curiosity did the trolley poles have slider shoes or trolley wheels to go that fast?
Slider shoes. And wire frogs were almost completely avoided. At switches, the pole would be manually jumped. Or parallel wirs used such as the single track in South Milwaukee. Wire switches were used at South Upton Junction.
Jewett Car Co was out of Newark, OH.