Seattle did this too, but they were too lazy to lift the city up. They just built sidewalks on the second floor. In fact, you can still go under the city and see some of the original storefronts.
@@tahunuva4254 yeah, because one city getting a cold ass winter disproves climate change, that's how this works right? Dumb f******* like you need to learn the difference between climate and weather.
@@johnladuke6475 Imagine having multiple cities above water like Venice. The tourism will increase in Florida. They thought they ruined us, but they only made us stronger. "Florida is like a cockroach," "Thee are just jealous because we're more successful than thee and have better policies than thee at keeping our population yonker."
You got a 3 paragraph essay and you think you can do it in 3 days. Don't kid yourself, they raised a city in 20 years, you can write that essay in 20 days is more like it
Fun fact about the Great Chicago Fire: it wasn’t even the deadliest fire in the country that *DAY.* A couple hundred miles north, in Wisconsin, the Peshtigo Fire killed anywhere between 1500-2500 people. I did some research on it a few months back and it was truly horrifying, but a good topic for a video.
Now what is a good topic for a video is the killing of Ken McElroy, a man who was such a piece of shit, he was shot in front of a crowd of 30 to 46 people, and no one testified
Yeah, they even have a small museum about the fire and the town of Peshtigo. You can also go tubing down the river where many people burned to death since the water was so polluted the flames were carried on top and spread throughout the area.
Do Seattle, too! (i should mention they abandoned the first floor of buildings, and you can go see them since we're better at water these days, and the poop goes elsewhere via pipes that are higher than sea level, so it's easier for it to all slide slippery shitwise towards the ocean) (you're welcome)
@@ricktophermenendez5983 only if you have a car. otherwise it's like heart attack central. holy hell, those huge hills. why does san fran get all the attention?
More specifically, they set the railway tracks on fire around sensitive areas like switches (points in British/Irish parlance) and crossovers to prevent ice buildup; ice could prevent the switches moving, meaning at best trains would be stuck going one way and at worst switch motors could burn out from trying too hard to move a stuck switch or the control rods could get bent by being forced to try and move a switch that can't because it's clogged with ice, and for crossovers there's a possibility that ice could build up so much in the narrow guiderails that it could lift a train's wheels clear off the track, causing derailments. Not fun for anyone, so in cold climates railway engineers install special flame jets around such sensitive infrastructure and when necessary pump propane or even straight gasoline through the burners to prevent such freezing. Still not as crazy as the Canadians or Russians, who literally just stick feckin' jet engines off old fighter planes on a flatcar with the exhaust ducted down onto the track and push that in front of a works train.
Russia also uses jet engines to melt snow on runways at winter motor.ru/thumb/900x0/filters:quality(75):no_upscale()/imgs/2017/04/02/19/217449/f9f0c277b2194e47daeee11a0c2daee12685c724.jpg
Ahh the luck of living in Illinois!!! Not only are the property taxes retarded, but we can complete a great feat of engineering only to watch it all burn down a few years later. 🤗
This is the kind of story where it's like what even? The Civil engineers couldn't design a poop pipe but they could lift every building in the town on jacks?
They also reversed the Chicago River around this time as well. It used to flow into Lake Michigan but that was a hazard for the city with all the waste and sewage and whatnot so they pulled out a certain Uno card and made it flow into the Des Plaines river and eventually the Mississippi River... Did the same with the Calumet River south of the city.
kind of, if that RUclipsr was the United States, I think they did a great job, even after all of the terrible stuff that happened to it it still is the 3rd biggest city in the country, and set world records everywhere, hear of the skyscraper? thank Chicago. Ferris wheel? Chicago. Jazz? once again, Chicago. We should be thanking Chicago, not putting it down. Also if you think i'm being biased towards Chicago, you are wrong. I live in NJ, right next to new York city, and I must say that Chicago is 10 times better in everyway.
It's common practice. My grandfather worked for the railroad and still has what he's always called a "de-icer". It hooks onto a propane cylinder and shoots a flame that's about 4 inches wide and 8 inches long that was apparently used by walking down the tracks and holding it down on the tracks near switches and whatnot so they don't freeze. Currently uses it to start gigantic brush fires on his property, just do a walk around real quick with it and you've got a bonfire going. Although he did work in and around Chicago so maybe it is a Chicago thing...
Qxir, I don’t think you get enough credit for your story telling and animations. Every single video is just absolutely hilarious no matter what the story is. Love your work 👌🤙
The first few years of my life was spent living in a home in Chicago. Our house was of a weird construction. It was four houses with the ground floor actually being about 10 feet below street level, built on top of these really crumbly types of stone blocks. The first floor (really the second floor) was at street level and was two houses, back to back and made in to one house. The second floor (third story) was two more houses sitting exactly on top of the two second story houses. My grandparents lived there until I was in my 20's and I would ask about the strange nature of the house and it was explained to me that the four houses were moved there and then jacked up and the ground floor was built up underneath them. Some hallways did not line up exactly; some bedrooms were weird shapes or had two doors next to each other. There was a seam that ran down the middle of the living room with a different colored wooden flooring where the houses were stuck together. Also the house did not come in contact with the street in front of it. There was something that could be best described as a ten foot deep "moat" around the house that was paved with brick and the front stairs crossed this six foot wide moat so you could get to the front door. It makes sense now, knowing that the city was raised. The house was clearly from the mid 1800's and just a little bit outside of the area where the great Chicago fire had started so it was not burned down. If you are a Chicago dweller and want to see this house it is in the Pilsen neighborhood at the southeast corner of W 16th Street and S Laflin Street, just on the other side of an empty lot that used to be a warehouse until it was torn down in the 1970's.
Seattle did something like this after their fire. We raised the streets a whole story, and everyone just added doors to their 2nd floor. They have a tour of the underground now.
@@RationalGaze216 I wonder how Seattle is faring since the documentary "The Fight for the Soul of Seattle"? It painted a very disturbing picture but then so are the city leaders.
I live in Peru, IL, which is a couple of hours downstream of Chicago via the Illinois, Fox, and Chicago rivers. The City of Chicago also got itself in such a public health crisis that it had to reverse engineer the Chicago river to flow away from the lake (instead of into it) after years worth of the blood and guts from the massive stockyards district started to foul the water supply in Lake Michigan. I've never fully understood how this was actually done, but I read a historical account of the overwhelming bovine bloodshed ('The Jungle' is the most famous account of that, of course) that the rivers flowed bright red all the way to Peru at one point. Another fun fact for you: a guy I used to date was in a hunting club with Oscar Meyer III, the king of monetizing the remnants from cutting room floor. Those kind of guys never eat their own products. I really enjoy your videos, especially the killing tips from the CIA. I hope you keep at it!
Chicago's commuter railroad, Metra, sets a fire to the switch points with a series of gas pipes to prevent the points from freezing which would cause the tracks to not switch properly. That would derails the trains. It's actually pretty ingenious, really.
Bryson Grondin what is the train community called? i always see people in comments who adamantly love trains. would love to see some of their vids and understand the appeal.
@@sjuvanet some people call us railfans, some of the railroaders like to call us "foamers" as a derogatory term becase we "foam at the mouth" when we see trains! Check out Trains21 or Distant Signal if you'd like to see some cool stuff and learn more, they put out some great stuff!
Not heard of electricity? Can heat the points without all the fire. Frozen points/switches also shouldn't derail anything, unless you have no interlocking. Signals shouldn't clear until the points are set for the move. Railway signalling 101
@@fancy_cyka3594 I won't get into specifics, but there was a man, who arrived in an airport with a passport, identification, and so forth, claiming to be from a country called Taured. He also pointed to his country on a globe, and forget what it was, but he was confused why it wasn't his country. Problably a crack between universes.
Child: *gets crushed by an entire block on jacks* Literally everyone else: What did I just say? Edit: I came back to this thread and now I’m dying of laughter.
Great video never knew Chicago was raised like this. Fun fact for you regarding your silent era clips: the one where Charlie Chaplin is rollerskating near a sudden drop; that drop is actually painted onto a glass screen which is placed in front of the camera, Charlie was never in any real danger... the same cannot be said for the other two who genuinely did risk their lives for their art.
I live in chicago and there is a lot of cool engendering that made the city. Of corse the rasing of the city of corse, if you go downtown there are a a lot of tunnels underground (Like the one in the dark night was filmed there) you can drive in and walk in, but its mostly parking and storage, but I have started to see some underground plazas spring up! And second is the sewage and water systems, when they installed the sewage pipe they were dumping it in the river which went to the lake were we get our drinking water! So some dude that Im to lazy to look his name up reversed the direction of the water so the sewage would move away from the lake, but in doing that it would drain the lake! So they also made 2 huge doors called “the locks” which allowed boats to enter and get out (used to be a huge dock for goods, but now its mostly private boats and tours) without draining the water! I recommend looking that up Its actually kinda cool! In chicago we get a bad rap for all the crime which I think is blown WAY over proportion, but its a fun city!
Yes. I agree, this video is putting a bad rep on chicago, thank you for writing this to prove that there is still hope for people to look towards the future, not the bad parts of the past.
I visited Chicago recently and had a safe trip. Learning to drive in city traffic was a nightmare, but I found a few cool things to do. The ice ribbon near millennium park was really cool. (Sorry if I got the exact name of the area wrong lol)
The old Ironworkers of Newyork and Chicago is very interesting story, I remember seeing the enlarged photos on the walls of diners there, with interesting stories of French Canadian and some Native American ''scabs'' being brought in when workers demanded pay increases or safety measures.
So, the rollerskating scene referenced at 5:30 is from Modern Times, a Chaplin film also starring Paulette Goddard. The scene itself is a visual effect: the apparent multi-floor drop being no more than a matte painting on a piece of glass near the camera. Behind the painting there was just more floor and a line showing Chaplin where the "drop" would appear to be.
Chicago is a great city to go to, especially in the summer time. Yea it has it's crime problems but so does every other city and if your a tourist, you shouldn't find yourself on the side of town where ish goes down. Put it this way, the closer to Indiana you get, the worse it gets.
The line, “If you get ever had any doubt; there is a god, and he has a sick sense of humor” seems like it should come from a book or a film, not from this
i was a laborer for a construction company a few months ago and we used these big 9 foot jacks to hold up a building that was partially colapsing, and everybody still was working in there every day, we jacked from floor to ceiling in 3 floors then redid the block wall and set it back down
@@ArpaZha I live in Illinois and this is true, one of the strictest states for gun laws but crime is high af, only good thing we got is weed to make dumbasses stay on their couch and not make shit worse
People back then : "Don not worry, our kids will grow up strong and if they don't well we can always make more.." People now: "Think about the kids safety people they are our future." I would like the older times where it's only the strong who survives
I live In Chicago, and all you have to do is live in Chicago during winter for 5 seconds to understand that setting the train tracks on fire makes a ton of sense. And that’s due to the tracks having built in gas heaters, and considering that Metra has a few lines, some that are really busy, and one that goes all the way to Kenosha Wisconsin, it makes some sense. I hate Chicago a lot but at least Chicago has very good transportation options. But all in all I’d stay away for the most part.
Favorite video so far because of the humor. i love your animations and animation style. more of those please. Also i'm addicted to your "last moments" series. just gets me right in the gut every time!
2 years from now, Qxir makes video called: “The razing of Chicago” Qxir: “Now, I’d never been to Chicago, and boy am I glad I didn’t..” Edit: Just saw the end of the video, and of course he made a “raze” joke, but it had to do with the Chicago Fire. 😂
IAmAce2157 Actually no. Burned is the past verbal form. As in he burned the house down. Burnt is the past participle form. As in the school burnt down.
In all honesty though it doesn’t really matter. In the modern day those lines are blurring and really you could use either interchangeably. Hell i could even say brent if wanted too, as historically that was a real way of saying burnt.
At about the same time, the runoff from Chicago's numerous slaughterhouses was killing everyone and destroying the watershed but instead of regulating pollution, we reversed the flow of the Chicago river. A large, 200 meter wide river, and we just made the whole thing run backwards so the waste went downstream (upstream?). Later on the EPA made us clean up the river but it continues to flow in the wrong direction. Apparently we can make rivers go uphill but not sewer systems.
Quick note on burning train tracks: this is usually done on switches so they wont jam up with ice, which can keep them from switching. Some lines in the US do have heaters built into them (and theres been cases where the heaters have burst into flames)
@Qxir, I grew up in Chicago. Lots of weird history there. They also built locks to reverse the flow of the Chicago River. It kept Lake Michigan (our biggest water source) cleaner, and it sent our industrial effluvia out to the country and eventually into the Mississippi River. It made Chicago's problem into someone else's. In other words, business as usual. Aaah, Chicago, it's a great place to be from. Nice to visit though.
Yay, honestly it is refreshing to see someone go over the weird city of Chicago again. Honestly you could do a whole series on the fuck ups of Illinois, and that would be fantastic to watch.
0:13 those are the tower A-2 switch heaters, they were not set ablaze, this is a normal thing to have happen. Love that Milwaukee Road speed limit sign by the tower there that’s a nice sight.
There are areas where the buildings weren’t raised. Some have stairs that lead up to the sidewalks and d street. While some buildings first floors are now the basements. You are able to still see doorways and windows that lead to nowhere.
"Setting fire" to the tracks is not what you think, my Mick friend! Those flames you saw in the first photo was taken at Western Ave. interlocking where the former CNW (now UPRR) tracks intersect with the former Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific) and those flames are intentionally burning to melt snow and ice that would otherwise clog the switches of the interlocking. Today, switch blowers are used. They blow a constant stream of air at high speed into the switch structures to keep them free of ice and snow. I used to work for the former CNW/UPRR and I know that area well. Brought back old memories! I did not expect to see those photos! Also, during winter when rails have to be replaced due to damage, they set fire to the length of rail to be replaced to thaw out the ground and track structures to allow them to more easily pull the track spikes to disassemble the track being replaced.
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in seattle they just said two first floors
when there sewer went in
(Cue-ksir is how you pronounce it btw)
Chicago in here
@@RandomPerson-ob1hkOh I thought that was just a robot accent
Seattle did this too, but they were too lazy to lift the city up. They just built sidewalks on the second floor.
In fact, you can still go under the city and see some of the original storefronts.
@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 Seattle. They have an underground tour of old Seattle.
That’s so cool, never heard about either of these events before. Crazy stuff
where can i read about this in more detail?
@@loganrash6764 I've done the tour, its realy interesting
These are the kinds of things I want to hear about and see.
They graduated from the Patrick star school of fixing your problems
Is that by the Squidward Community College?
PUSH!
@@imthatjay ...ouuuchhh.
The first four of get some nuts and lift building like a man 🤨😏
he copied this guy video ruclips.net/video/x96BncWmVig/видео.html&ab_channel=ApexGames
People Today: "Climate will drown all of our cities, what are we going to do!?"
People back then: "Gee this poop stinks, pick up the whole city!"
We're just pretending we don't have the answer until it's too late to save Florida.
@@johnladuke6475 Shit Florida will probably do the same thing
Also people: *literally having to set stuff on fire to stop it freezing*
Climate change, folds! （。々°）
@@tahunuva4254 yeah, because one city getting a cold ass winter disproves climate change, that's how this works right?
Dumb f******* like you need to learn the difference between climate and weather.
@@johnladuke6475 Imagine having multiple cities above water like Venice. The tourism will increase in Florida. They thought they ruined us, but they only made us stronger. "Florida is like a cockroach," "Thee are just jealous because we're more successful than thee and have better policies than thee at keeping our population yonker."
Raised the city, then razed the city.
Underrated comment
@@SR-wz2iv I'm glad it was appreciated. I had to do it.
I'm using this story as motivation, 'It took some goons in Chicago 5 days to lift an entire city block, I can totally write this essay in 3'
You got a 3 paragraph essay and you think you can do it in 3 days. Don't kid yourself, they raised a city in 20 years, you can write that essay in 20 days is more like it
You didn't get the joke
im assuming 3' means 3 minutes, as used in coordinate systems (e.g. 0°0'0" N)
I thought it was 3 feet
i miss when i could see the word goon and just think of cartoon gangsters
Fun fact about the Great Chicago Fire: it wasn’t even the deadliest fire in the country that *DAY.* A couple hundred miles north, in Wisconsin, the Peshtigo Fire killed anywhere between 1500-2500 people. I did some research on it a few months back and it was truly horrifying, but a good topic for a video.
Now what is a good topic for a video is the killing of Ken McElroy, a man who was such a piece of shit, he was shot in front of a crowd of 30 to 46 people, and no one testified
Yeah, they even have a small museum about the fire and the town of Peshtigo. You can also go tubing down the river where many people burned to death since the water was so polluted the flames were carried on top and spread throughout the area.
@@nickrustyson8124😂
The one dislike touched the screws and had a city block dropped on them.
Do Seattle, too! (i should mention they abandoned the first floor of buildings, and you can go see them since we're better at water these days, and the poop goes elsewhere via pipes that are higher than sea level, so it's easier for it to all slide slippery shitwise towards the ocean) (you're welcome)
seattle is such a fun city
@@ricktophermenendez5983 only if you have a car. otherwise it's like heart attack central. holy hell, those huge hills. why does san fran get all the attention?
Some more mud flood craziness, and I'm from Seattle.
More specifically, they set the railway tracks on fire around sensitive areas like switches (points in British/Irish parlance) and crossovers to prevent ice buildup; ice could prevent the switches moving, meaning at best trains would be stuck going one way and at worst switch motors could burn out from trying too hard to move a stuck switch or the control rods could get bent by being forced to try and move a switch that can't because it's clogged with ice, and for crossovers there's a possibility that ice could build up so much in the narrow guiderails that it could lift a train's wheels clear off the track, causing derailments. Not fun for anyone, so in cold climates railway engineers install special flame jets around such sensitive infrastructure and when necessary pump propane or even straight gasoline through the burners to prevent such freezing.
Still not as crazy as the Canadians or Russians, who literally just stick feckin' jet engines off old fighter planes on a flatcar with the exhaust ducted down onto the track and push that in front of a works train.
Russia also uses jet engines to melt snow on runways at winter
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Canadians and Russians sound like the smarter ones in this instance lol
Electrically heated points FTW
Japan showers the tracks with hot water. There are prebuilt pipes that just let the hot water pour when it is cold
In Canada we have propane heaters underneath the railway switches and diamonds.
Ahh the luck of living in Illinois!!! Not only are the property taxes retarded, but we can complete a great feat of engineering only to watch it all burn down a few years later. 🤗
Quick to act, slow to work things out. That's my area in S. IL.
Boy do I love being taxed based on property ownership and not my income!
@@Raven-if9ie *america theme song starts playing*
Don’t forget cook county’s AMAZING 20% taxes!
@@richardnixon6526 haha we are amazing aren't we?
This is the kind of story where it's like what even?
The Civil engineers couldn't design a poop pipe but they could lift every building in the town on jacks?
They needed to lift to city to _build_ the shitpipes.
@Kyle Zobell Well, to be fair, back in Blighty we'd been building stone castles and cathedrals for 800 years (takes us to 1866).
They also reversed the Chicago River around this time as well.
It used to flow into Lake Michigan but that was a hazard for the city with all the waste and sewage and whatnot so they pulled out a certain Uno card and made it flow into the Des Plaines river and eventually the Mississippi River... Did the same with the Calumet River south of the city.
Complicated problems require complicated solutions
@nhuKer
That amazes me every time. They managed to change the direction of a river which had been going in the one direction for thousands of years.
Chicago is literally just the city of a RUclipsr playing Cities: Skylines
Build it, edit it, destroy it, rebuild it.
Dubai and Las Vegas are rather better examples
kind of, if that RUclipsr was the United States, I think they did a great job, even after all of the terrible stuff that happened to it it still is the 3rd biggest city in the country, and set world records everywhere, hear of the skyscraper? thank Chicago. Ferris wheel? Chicago. Jazz? once again, Chicago. We should be thanking Chicago, not putting it down. Also if you think i'm being biased towards Chicago, you are wrong. I live in NJ, right next to new York city, and I must say that Chicago is 10 times better in everyway.
@@keegang_55 Simping over Chicago is a new one
@@fynnla.e you must know a lot about simping to make that claim. (aka im calling you the simp, i just dont know if your 2 brain cells can process it)
Train conductor:
"Sir we have a problem."
Chicago "Fire"
Conductor: "Uuuh what?"
Chicago: ''FIRE WILL FIX EVERYTHING." 🔥
I bet Chicago was surprised when it actually worked.
They do it so the switch tracks and crossovers don't freeze. It would derail the trains otherwise.
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I mean, it's necessary, or else the tracks will be damaged by the extreme cold.
Fire fixes.
It's common practice. My grandfather worked for the railroad and still has what he's always called a "de-icer". It hooks onto a propane cylinder and shoots a flame that's about 4 inches wide and 8 inches long that was apparently used by walking down the tracks and holding it down on the tracks near switches and whatnot so they don't freeze. Currently uses it to start gigantic brush fires on his property, just do a walk around real quick with it and you've got a bonfire going.
Although he did work in and around Chicago so maybe it is a Chicago thing...
"We should take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else"
GOIN' AROUND TOWN, GOIN' AROOOOUUNDD TOWN
Did the jacks also lift up Chicago's crime rate?
@@Willam_J BAM! Lol
@@Willam_J Hah
@RWDS 1 forgot the C between the L and A
Danial says Oof “BLCKAS”...? I don’t know what’s worse, racists that can’t spell “blacks” or someone that also cannot spell trying to correct them...
Hell yea my boi Al heard the whole city was supported by jacks nd just had to start killing people there
Qxir, I don’t think you get enough credit for your story telling and animations. Every single video is just absolutely hilarious no matter what the story is. Love your work 👌🤙
The first few years of my life was spent living in a home in Chicago. Our house was of a weird construction. It was four houses with the ground floor actually being about 10 feet below street level, built on top of these really crumbly types of stone blocks. The first floor (really the second floor) was at street level and was two houses, back to back and made in to one house. The second floor (third story) was two more houses sitting exactly on top of the two second story houses. My grandparents lived there until I was in my 20's and I would ask about the strange nature of the house and it was explained to me that the four houses were moved there and then jacked up and the ground floor was built up underneath them.
Some hallways did not line up exactly; some bedrooms were weird shapes or had two doors next to each other. There was a seam that ran down the middle of the living room with a different colored wooden flooring where the houses were stuck together. Also the house did not come in contact with the street in front of it. There was something that could be best described as a ten foot deep "moat" around the house that was paved with brick and the front stairs crossed this six foot wide moat so you could get to the front door.
It makes sense now, knowing that the city was raised. The house was clearly from the mid 1800's and just a little bit outside of the area where the great Chicago fire had started so it was not burned down.
If you are a Chicago dweller and want to see this house it is in the Pilsen neighborhood at the southeast corner of W 16th Street and S Laflin Street, just on the other side of an empty lot that used to be a warehouse until it was torn down in the 1970's.
I can hear OSHA screaming across space and time
Seattle did something like this after their fire. We raised the streets a whole story, and everyone just added doors to their 2nd floor. They have a tour of the underground now.
sounds easier than raising the whole city
@@exquaze3785 Quite the contrary
wait this is real? i saw someone else comment this and I thought they were kidding
Man, I wish I would've visited before the city went to shit.
@@RationalGaze216 I wonder how Seattle is faring since the documentary "The Fight for the Soul of Seattle"? It painted a very disturbing picture but then so are the city leaders.
I live in Peru, IL, which is a couple of hours downstream of Chicago via the Illinois, Fox, and Chicago rivers. The City of Chicago also got itself in such a public health crisis that it had to reverse engineer the Chicago river to flow away from the lake (instead of into it) after years worth of the blood and guts from the massive stockyards district started to foul the water supply in Lake Michigan. I've never fully understood how this was actually done, but I read a historical account of the overwhelming bovine bloodshed ('The Jungle' is the most famous account of that, of course) that the rivers flowed bright red all the way to Peru at one point. Another fun fact for you: a guy I used to date was in a hunting club with Oscar Meyer III, the king of monetizing the remnants from cutting room floor. Those kind of guys never eat their own products.
I really enjoy your videos, especially the killing tips from the CIA. I hope you keep at it!
"Wipee! Oh Yeah! Oh my God this is Great!"
-Timmy 2020
As someone from Chicago I can see why people don't want to go but it's not too bad if you know what you're doing
Chicago's commuter railroad, Metra, sets a fire to the switch points with a series of gas pipes to prevent the points from freezing which would cause the tracks to not switch properly. That would derails the trains. It's actually pretty ingenious, really.
Yeah people who don't live there don't get it
@@joshjablonicky171 I don't live there, only been through once. I just like trains and know a good amount about 'em.
Bryson Grondin what is the train community called? i always see people in comments who adamantly love trains. would love to see some of their vids and understand the appeal.
@@sjuvanet some people call us railfans, some of the railroaders like to call us "foamers" as a derogatory term becase we "foam at the mouth" when we see trains! Check out Trains21 or Distant Signal if you'd like to see some cool stuff and learn more, they put out some great stuff!
Not heard of electricity? Can heat the points without all the fire. Frozen points/switches also shouldn't derail anything, unless you have no interlocking. Signals shouldn't clear until the points are set for the move. Railway signalling 101
As a Chicagoan this seems like something I could 100% picture happening
Can you do a video on the “Man from Taured?” It’s a pretty good idea for a tale from the bottle I think.
That is a good one
I have no clue what it is but it sounds interesting so I agree
@@fancy_cyka3594 I won't get into specifics, but there was a man, who arrived in an airport with a passport, identification, and so forth, claiming to be from a country called Taured. He also pointed to his country on a globe, and forget what it was, but he was confused why it wasn't his country. Problably a crack between universes.
Isn’t the story fake tho
@@oreodoe it's interesting
Child: *gets crushed by an entire block on jacks*
Literally everyone else: What did I just say?
Edit: I came back to this thread and now I’m dying of laughter.
"Mrs Matilda, your son is crushed under a building because he's stupid"
"Don't worry we still have six more"
@@kos2919 only six? must be a new marriage
@@acuteavocado1962 Yeah, the first wife died while giving birth to her son.
Natural selection.
@@ls200076 probably pneumonia and it was later discovered the doctor had prescribed a snake oil medication that didn't work for shit
The drawings in this one are so good. Nice job
This sounds like an interesting video
Was it good? I'm thinking of watching it
LlamaMusicChannel id wait a couple weeks. it was good, but i’d wait and see if the political climate in azerbaijan affects its viewability in any way.
@@MIRACLECHEEZ aaah of course
Honestly thought he was using the other definition of raising when I got the notification
@@MIRACLECHEEZ understandable I'll see how it turns out with Armenia before viewing
Well told, bro.
My fam came to Chicago in 1847 and we are still about the same neighborhood. Nice to hear the stories told to a larger audience.
Great video never knew Chicago was raised like this. Fun fact for you regarding your silent era clips: the one where Charlie Chaplin is rollerskating near a sudden drop; that drop is actually painted onto a glass screen which is placed in front of the camera, Charlie was never in any real danger... the same cannot be said for the other two who genuinely did risk their lives for their art.
i think the Clock one was a Facade that was on a rooftop but only had a short drop
Buster Keaton didn't give a fuck.
@@Ragnarok540 Indeed Buster Keaton was the Chad of Chads
I laughed harder than I probably should have at around the 4:29 mark.
Good on ya!
"Where da poop gonna go?" is now my personal catchphrase.
I live in chicago and there is a lot of cool engendering that made the city. Of corse the rasing of the city of corse, if you go downtown there are a a lot of tunnels underground (Like the one in the dark night was filmed there) you can drive in and walk in, but its mostly parking and storage, but I have started to see some underground plazas spring up! And second is the sewage and water systems, when they installed the sewage pipe they were dumping it in the river which went to the lake were we get our drinking water! So some dude that Im to lazy to look his name up reversed the direction of the water so the sewage would move away from the lake, but in doing that it would drain the lake! So they also made 2 huge doors called “the locks” which allowed boats to enter and get out (used to be a huge dock for goods, but now its mostly private boats and tours) without draining the water! I recommend looking that up Its actually kinda cool! In chicago we get a bad rap for all the crime which I think is blown WAY over proportion, but its a fun city!
Yes. I agree, this video is putting a bad rep on chicago, thank you for writing this to prove that there is still hope for people to look towards the future, not the bad parts of the past.
I visited Chicago recently and had a safe trip. Learning to drive in city traffic was a nightmare, but I found a few cool things to do. The ice ribbon near millennium park was really cool. (Sorry if I got the exact name of the area wrong lol)
This does make you wonder;
"Why they just build skyscrapers from the top down?"
The old Ironworkers of Newyork and Chicago is very interesting story, I remember seeing the enlarged photos on the walls of diners there, with interesting stories of French Canadian and some Native American ''scabs'' being brought in when workers demanded pay increases or safety measures.
Honestly this is an amazing feat of engineering.
Wanted to say, I really appreciated your doodle of the people walking amongst the screws.
Excellent video! #qxir
0:40 I love the "Father Jack" style 'WHAT?!' doodle. I hope that was your intention, though.
So, the rollerskating scene referenced at 5:30 is from Modern Times, a Chaplin film also starring Paulette Goddard. The scene itself is a visual effect: the apparent multi-floor drop being no more than a matte painting on a piece of glass near the camera. Behind the painting there was just more floor and a line showing Chaplin where the "drop" would appear to be.
I was born and raised in Chicago and didn’t even know about this. Thank you!
heh. raised
This is such a fascinating video. I have never heard of this before, it deserves more attention. Thank you for covering obscure stories like this.
"if all else fails, use fire": man, zelda 2, the adventure of link.
If you look at a lot of Chicago’s history it’s pretty weird
If that thumbnail is new, it looks way better. If I’m just imagining that it’s new, it looks amazing
Probably your funniest work to date. Well played, sir.
Im dutch and not even offended, might be cuz im stoned cruising my canal.
You're dutch?
Do you have a plan?
This was a amazing story. Thanks for making this for us. And again the illustration make the stories that much better.
“WhErE DA PoOp GoNna Go"
DUhhhh... easy answer
we eat it
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
You should do a video on the raising of the grade of Galveston, TX. Probably the most ingenious civil engineering project of the 20th century
Basically the same thing
Imagine being a certified building lifter.
Dudes nowadays be complaining that they gotta flip burgers.
"What some might call a shitty situation"
This is what I subscribed for
1850s America: lifts an entire city four feet
2020 America: can’t handle staying inside and not throwing giant parties for 2 months to end a pandemic
Thank the republicans for that.
@@PartnershipsForYou yeah those dang republicans all cramming themselves together into massive cities filled with diseases and garbage... oh wait...
@@davidg2479 You're replying to a bot. Who says stuff like that
Howl's Moving Castle: We literally have a moving castle
Chicago: Hold my City
Hindsight being 20/20, they should have let it sink into the earth.
no
Fax
I live here and I agree
Hindsight in 2020
Excellent show here !!!!! Never ever am I let down by this channel. Living in NA I've never heard this story!!! Gr8 job as always!!!
Chicago is a great city to go to, especially in the summer time. Yea it has it's crime problems but so does every other city and if your a tourist, you shouldn't find yourself on the side of town where ish goes down. Put it this way, the closer to Indiana you get, the worse it gets.
I can't visit a city where I can't defend myself with the same weapons criminals have access to.
@@mycelia_ow just tell them to stop. Criminals cannot do anything to you without your consent.
lol
Thank you for teaching me about the dangers of stagnant water, I had never considered it; but it makes a lot of sense.
The line, “If you get ever had any doubt; there is a god, and he has a sick sense of humor” seems like it should come from a book or a film, not from this
I love the mix of facts and just absolute insanity, im glad i found another engineer on youtube with an accent.
Detroit: Become Human
Chicago: Become Taller
Qxir is one of my absolute favorite RUclips channels
I've heard about this but I've never actually heard about how it happened
i was a laborer for a construction company a few months ago and we used these big 9 foot jacks to hold up a building that was partially colapsing, and everybody still was working in there every day, we jacked from floor to ceiling in 3 floors then redid the block wall and set it back down
I feel like Chicago is the Detroit of Illinois
Kinda like how Florida is America's Australia.
Florida man
Pretty sure Chicago and Detroit are competing to see which city can be worse
@@olliegoria nah it more like which city is more fucked up
@@ArpaZha I live in Illinois and this is true, one of the strictest states for gun laws but crime is high af, only good thing we got is weed to make dumbasses stay on their couch and not make shit worse
Sacramento did this too. It was actually a normal practice for riverside towns back in the day before city planning
People back then : "Don not worry, our kids will grow up strong and if they don't well we can always make more.."
People now: "Think about the kids safety people they are our future."
I would like the older times where it's only the strong who survives
I live In Chicago, and all you have to do is live in Chicago during winter for 5 seconds to understand that setting the train tracks on fire makes a ton of sense. And that’s due to the tracks having built in gas heaters, and considering that Metra has a few lines, some that are really busy, and one that goes all the way to Kenosha Wisconsin, it makes some sense. I hate Chicago a lot but at least Chicago has very good transportation options. But all in all I’d stay away for the most part.
Hey Beavis, he said "jack"
"*uheheheheheheh*"
Favorite video so far because of the humor. i love your animations and animation style. more of those please.
Also i'm addicted to your "last moments" series. just gets me right in the gut every time!
2 years from now, Qxir makes video called:
“The razing of Chicago”
Qxir: “Now, I’d never been to Chicago, and boy am I glad I didn’t..”
Edit: Just saw the end of the video, and of course he made a “raze” joke, but it had to do with the Chicago Fire. 😂
This sounds so much like something aperture science would do, specifically with Cave Johnson in charge.
Chicago was great. That was a horrible way to introduce the video, great way to put people off
yes, finally a man with a working mind. Thank you for proving that there is still hope.
It was great like 40 years ago
Let me guess... you're from Chicago.
Dude I've never been addicted to a channel more than I'm addicted to yours
And then the whole damn town burnt down.
20 years of hard work undone by a cow and a lantern.
burned*
IAmAce2157
Actually no. Burned is the past verbal form. As in he burned the house down. Burnt is the past participle form. As in the school burnt down.
In all honesty though it doesn’t really matter. In the modern day those lines are blurring and really you could use either interchangeably. Hell i could even say brent if wanted too, as historically that was a real way of saying burnt.
Over here in Chicago we also decided that we did not like how our river flowed... so we reversed the flow of the whole river....
was pretty cool
"fiRST" annoying as hell
At about the same time, the runoff from Chicago's numerous slaughterhouses was killing everyone and destroying the watershed but instead of regulating pollution, we reversed the flow of the Chicago river. A large, 200 meter wide river, and we just made the whole thing run backwards so the waste went downstream (upstream?). Later on the EPA made us clean up the river but it continues to flow in the wrong direction. Apparently we can make rivers go uphill but not sewer systems.
Sorry bro but that's literally american ingenuity
Tis is one of the bet channels on YT right now. I love the variety of topics an the cynical sense of humor.
You’d be amazed by some of the stupid shit that goes down in Chicago. Compared to that stuff, this isn’t too surprising
Seattle has a similar story. Midwesterners didn't understand how tides work and build at or below sea level. The underground is still there.
I'll definitely be thinking about this the next time I'm passing through Chicago.
Quick note on burning train tracks: this is usually done on switches so they wont jam up with ice, which can keep them from switching. Some lines in the US do have heaters built into them (and theres been cases where the heaters have burst into flames)
I live in Chicago and this brings be memories of kids always doing their history fair projects on this
@Qxir, I grew up in Chicago. Lots of weird history there.
They also built locks to reverse the flow of the Chicago River. It kept Lake Michigan (our biggest water source) cleaner, and it sent our industrial effluvia out to the country and eventually into the Mississippi River. It made Chicago's problem into someone else's. In other words, business as usual.
Aaah, Chicago, it's a great place to be from. Nice to visit though.
Yay, honestly it is refreshing to see someone go over the weird city of Chicago again.
Honestly you could do a whole series on the fuck ups of Illinois, and that would be fantastic to watch.
Chicago also has the lager beer riots where a majority of the population raided city hall in order to drink on Sunday
0:13 those are the tower A-2 switch heaters, they were not set ablaze, this is a normal thing to have happen.
Love that Milwaukee Road speed limit sign by the tower there that’s a nice sight.
it's actually pretty amazing how well this apparently went
There are areas where the buildings weren’t raised. Some have stairs that lead up to the sidewalks and d street. While some buildings first floors are now the basements. You are able to still see doorways and windows that lead to nowhere.
I live in Chicago and I never heard them lit the rails on fire. Very interesting
"Setting fire" to the tracks is not what you think, my Mick friend! Those flames you saw in the first photo was taken at Western Ave. interlocking where the former CNW (now UPRR) tracks intersect with the former Milwaukee Road (now Canadian Pacific) and those flames are intentionally burning to melt snow and ice that would otherwise clog the switches of the interlocking. Today, switch blowers are used. They blow a constant stream of air at high speed into the switch structures to keep them free of ice and snow. I used to work for the former CNW/UPRR and I know that area well. Brought back old memories! I did not expect to see those photos! Also, during winter when rails have to be replaced due to damage, they set fire to the length of rail to be replaced to thaw out the ground and track structures to allow them to more easily pull the track spikes to disassemble the track being replaced.
Always a pleasure to sample whatever Qxir gives.
Finally an episode about my city by my favorite RUclipsr!
Gotta share this. Good job man 👌
"The raising of Chicogo lasted twenty years, and then, it was razed s'more" - Qxir.
"Where da poop gonna go?"
I fuckin' love this guy!
They did this in Sacramento too! You can still see the old city underground
Waited 5 minutes for the raised / razed pun and was not disappointed!