Sentimental Journey ... I rode the South Shore many times from South Bend (home) to Chicago and back as a small boy, and then later, after having gone off to school on the West Coast, when coming home for Christmas or such. I love trains, and loved the old Orange Peril, as we jokingly called it. Hope she keeps rolling another hundred years! Thanks for the memories.
They're talking about using that bridge for Amtrak trains from the IC/CN trackage, and maybe others. This would bypass St. Charles Airline which would cut down on trains having to back a long way to get to Union Station.
Prior to the creation of the nation's interstate highways, traveling by train was the way to travel. More than a dozen railroads operated their own passenger trains in Chicago. The Nickel Plate was no exception. According to an article published in Passenger Train Journal August 1985 Vol 16,No. 7 E95, in order for its passenger trains to reach Lasalle street station, the Nickel Plate trains entered Chicago from Fort Wayne, Indiana at street level and then followed a path that took them up roller-coaster style up over the IIlinois Central that you see in the video at 20: 50, then down and under, and back up to the New York Central tracks that you see in 20:20 in the video,and then on to Lasalle Street station. I don't know why the Nickel Plate didn't negotiate a trackage rights agreement with the Illinois Central to use Randolph Street station.
@@thephantomeagle2Your right, according to an article published by Passenger Train Journal August 1985 Vol. 16, NO. 7 E95, p 25 , Amtrak eyed this connection back then and as recently to eliminate the backup operation required for trains heading to Memphis. It would be interesting for railfans to see!
@YeOldeGeezerThe rails, ballast, and ties are still on the bridge and it's mostly intact. I've been writing the Nickel Plate Historical Society about passenger train videos in the Chicago area but nothing so far.
I have ridden the south shore from Chicago to Chesterton Indiana many times with my grandmother who is no longer with us, This brings back memories from that time. I miss you grandma :(
At 9:58 you can see where the Canadian National Chicago Sub passes over the Metra Electric on a flyover under McCormick place, and then at 10:12 the headlight on the far left is a CN freight about to cross over that same point. Then at 14:21 there is another northbound CN freight as the South Shore train is entering Hyde Park. CN only runs 6-10 freight trains a day on that portion of the Chicago Sub, catching two of them minutes apart is highly unusual.
16:26 Immediately east of the tracks was the site of Illinois Central (the railroad) Hospital, where I was born. The site is now occupied by a U. of Chicago pre-school. Thanks for the unexpected memory!
I have never ridden a South Shore train. This video makes me feel like I'm actually on it!!😁. I'm going to do it for real one day. It looks like fun and convenient!!😊
Definitely do, and plan to make a few stops along the way. In Hammond / Whiting, you can get a shuttle to Pierogifest from the depot during that event. The train stops close to the entrance of Dunes Nat'l Park. The Chesterton depot has a small art gallery inside. And you can get public transport from the final stop at the So. Bend Airport to the Note Dame campus.
I am a native and rode the SS and the IC many times. Allow me a small correction. There is no such thing as Hegewisch, Illinois, Hegewisch is part of Chicago. Other than that, very enjoyable and brought back a lot of memories.
@@Robbi496 I went to Chicago Vocational High School and many of my mid-sixties classmates were from Hegewisch. Spent more that a few Friday nights driving around Hegewisch and Indianapolis Blvd, drinking cheap beer and looking for those elusive girls we could never seem to find. If anyone ever runs into a character named Mike Mattich, not sure of the spelling, see if he remembers a guy named Beau and my 57 Chevy convertible. I never forgot those folk. Used to drive around with the top down when it was around 30 degrees. Doesn't seem like over 50 years ago.
A neighborhood of a city can still be place, state. At least that's the official way to write postal addresses in Boston: Roslindale, Massachusetts; West Roxbury, Massachusetts; etc.
@@sammartland932 Not in Chicago. If you addressed something to Hegewisch, Illinois, it would probably be returned. The only addresses would be in the City of Chicago or one one of the suburbs. If you are talking about a suburb, yes it would be addressed to that suburb such as Oak Park, Highland Park etc. But if it was in the geographical area of Chicago it would have to be addressed Chicago. Chicago has many neighborhoods with many different names but they are all addressed to Chicago. Good Army buddies from Boston and Lynn. I was there in the late 70's, went to a Red Sox game. Never saw so many drunks and fights except at a Chicago Black Hawk game. Still, I loved the city.
100% agree. What is it with America and the need to make incessantly ring bells that no where else in the world has the same problem. Even in a rail yard. This is 101 on how not to run a rail system. And those stations are far too close together the train crawls along.
It's for freight trains. Most freight trains are too wide to pass the platform, so they need to be far away. But the South Shore trains need to be close so there isn't a gap to step over. Passenger trains use the 1st and 3rd rails, while freight trains use the 2nd and 4th rails.
I have always found it interesting that the South Shore was classified as an interurban. It is, but it seems so much more a heavy duty electric/ diesel railroad line
Robbi496 Correct me if I’m wrong but I think Inter urban just means a rail line connecting 2 cities. 80 years ago I would have called it an interurban, but now I just think of it as a commuter train. I guess it could still be classified as one but it doesn’t feel like it.
@@justinanderson181 Interurbans were more like heavy duty streetcars that ran along separated right of ways between towns and in the street within town. To be honest, the South Shore Line has lost most of its interurban characteristics other than the bit of street running in Michigan City.
I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park. On rare occasions, we would ride the South Shore Line. Last year, I got to ride the South Shore Line all of the way from South Bend to Chicago and back to South Bend on a warm, sunny day in October. This was the first time I got to ride on the whole line from one end to the other and I did enjoy it. What day in 2016 was this filmed on?
I purchase my first JVC boom box in the 80's traveling from Gary to Chicago. Every two weeks I would catch the train and make payments. Yep, I had the law-a-way plan) As old blue eyes would say, *Thanks For The Memory*
Much changed from when I last rode the South Shore some 60 years ago. All the stations are vastly improved, however I did recognize various landmarks around Kensington, good to know aome rhings don't change.
There are hundreds of miles of electric heavy rail other than the northeast corridor, including Amtrak from Philadelphia to Harrisburg plus many Septa, NJ Transit, Long Island Railroad, and Metro-North lines.
@Sparrow its not the whole US, it is law however to ring it when in yards, and approaching and departing Stations. This engineer or the railroad company just decided that they want to ring the bell for 11 minutes strait.
Christopher Jacobucci in the chicago portion of the ssl it runs along the metra electric and I think it’s required when it passes stations to ring the bell. I’m not sure though
I remember reading about this in one of the railroad modeling genre of magazine back in ~'69. Why the overlapping tracks (34:25), are some trains wider than others?
Actually, they are separate tracks for freight and passenger trains. Freight takes the outermost rail, because of overhang, and passenger takes the platform side. Source: I Love Big Trains's South Shore segment.
Some of the rusted trusses utilized to hold up the electrical lines still look original in the Chicago and Gary vicinities. The ones made of wooden poles appear to be replacements. Am I correct?
I don't know that much about the South Shore Line but was there a reason why there's 2 separate platforms instead instead of just one center platform at Hegewisch station?
I looking for a cabride from NY to Boston. I watched it for a long time but now I don't know to locate it. Do you know where are there some video about this? Thanks.
It’s the buzz from VVVF drive traction motors. It makes that noise when it it changing speed and accelerating. Mehta Electric Line also has trains that make similar noises because they are from the same manufacturer with similar traction system.
At 32:43 there is a Conrail switcher about a 2 minute drive from where that bridge is if you look to your right and drive you might see it for yourself. I did!
I had a girlfriend who lived in South Bend, IN who took this train in on weekends. I had to pick her up at that ramshackle station on was it Dearborn? The C&NW station?
I think they still have a couple old cars left in storage, which I’m not sure what they use them for but they could run it some day as a heritage train
This was 2016. Since then, the SS upgraded most of the turnouts on their trackage to high speed. The ones on the Metra tracks, before they split off at Kensington, are under Metra's control.
This may sound dumb but I didn't know that that area was electrified also , I guess once the train gets out of the metro area it goes faster...........
Here we go again. The train switches off at 27:26 and go to where? The tracks that go straight ahead go to where and the tracks where the train is heading now goes where? You see where I live, the west coast, we never see or have track leading off here and there like I see here. Electric trains do not operate and only diesel rules the rails.
Robert -- The tracks going to the left is the South Shore line to Hammond, Gary, Michigan City, and South Bend IN. The tracks going straight is the METRA Electric to Blue Island/University Park.
It should be where they ring the bell when the train approaches and departs, also by any crossings they should ring it. They shouldn't ring it throughout the whole route. I love the bell sound but not when it constantly rings.
What can CGA? Chicago Transit Authority can't buy this line so they can make it part of the city of Chicago. Credit cards with $30 or more but it would be a good investment because that way even have Indiana part of your tax revenue.
Gary indianna is one of the only places that a HOLIDAY INN, HAD TO CLOSE UP, BECAUSE OF ROBBERY. that was in the 70s. THE LOCAL RESADENTS STOLD EVERYTHING THEY COOD! hay, wheres the graffity on the cars? and i dident see any busted windows! Safest place in town is next to the police station! I used to work near Gary! like a third world city.
Darn Americans and their incessant need to ring a continuous bell even in rail yards. Meanwhile in the rest of the world everyone is intelligent enough to know to avoid rail tracks.
I've seen this before. The most depressing sight for me is the part leaving Chicago, with all the empty trackways and unused tracks and once-busy tracks now used for storage. I suspect this is the old IC right-of-way. Just sad.
Absolutely no need whatsoever to have the bell rining constantly!! Like many other spaects of American Railways - they have not moved on like the rest of the Railway World!!
They keep the bell ringing as a warning for trespassers and stations the train doesn't stop at, as well as grade crossings. This is quite normal over here, and if it works, we aren't going to change it.
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Sentimental Journey ... I rode the South Shore many times from South Bend (home) to Chicago and back as a small boy, and then later, after having gone off to school on the West Coast, when coming home for Christmas or such. I love trains, and loved the old Orange Peril, as we jokingly called it. Hope she keeps rolling another hundred years! Thanks for the memories.
Great Video! No goofy music or drama. It was like being in the cab with the engineer.
Just a very shaky camera.
The abandoned railroad bridge at 20:50 in the video at 79th st belongs to the New York, Chicago and St.louis Railroad or Nickel Plate Road.
They're talking about using that bridge for Amtrak trains from the IC/CN trackage, and maybe others. This would bypass St. Charles Airline which would cut down on trains having to back a long way to get to Union Station.
Prior to the creation of the nation's interstate highways, traveling by train was the way to travel. More than a dozen railroads operated their own passenger trains in Chicago. The Nickel Plate was no exception. According to an article published in Passenger Train Journal August 1985 Vol 16,No. 7 E95, in order for its passenger trains to reach Lasalle street station, the Nickel Plate trains entered Chicago from Fort Wayne, Indiana at street level and then followed a path that took them up roller-coaster style up over the IIlinois Central that you see in the video at 20: 50, then down and under, and back up to the New York Central tracks that you see in 20:20 in the video,and then on to Lasalle Street station. I don't know why the Nickel Plate didn't negotiate a trackage rights agreement with the Illinois Central to use Randolph Street station.
@@thephantomeagle2Your right, according to an article published by Passenger Train Journal August 1985 Vol. 16, NO. 7 E95, p 25 , Amtrak eyed this connection back then and as recently to eliminate the backup operation required for trains heading to Memphis. It would be interesting for railfans to see!
@YeOldeGeezerThe rails, ballast, and ties are still on the bridge and it's mostly intact. I've been writing the Nickel Plate Historical Society about passenger train videos in the Chicago area but nothing so far.
I have ridden the south shore from Chicago to Chesterton Indiana many times with my grandmother who is no longer with us, This brings back memories from that time. I miss you grandma :(
At 9:58 you can see where the Canadian National Chicago Sub passes over the Metra Electric on a flyover under McCormick place, and then at 10:12 the headlight on the far left is a CN freight about to cross over that same point. Then at 14:21 there is another northbound CN freight as the South Shore train is entering Hyde Park. CN only runs 6-10 freight trains a day on that portion of the Chicago Sub, catching two of them minutes apart is highly unusual.
Amtrak uses that flyover also going to/from Union Station.
Lived in Michigan City, Indiana for a short period of time! Took the South Shore Line to and from Chicago!! Classic!!!
Thanks for this trip down memory lane from my childhood.
16:26 Immediately east of the tracks was the site of Illinois Central (the railroad) Hospital, where I was born. The site is now occupied by a U. of Chicago pre-school. Thanks for the unexpected memory!
I have never ridden a South Shore train. This video makes me feel like I'm actually on it!!😁. I'm going to do it for real one day. It looks like fun and convenient!!😊
Definitely do, and plan to make a few stops along the way. In Hammond / Whiting, you can get a shuttle to Pierogifest from the depot during that event. The train stops close to the entrance of Dunes Nat'l Park. The Chesterton depot has a small art gallery inside. And you can get public transport from the final stop at the So. Bend Airport to the Note Dame campus.
@@jmtpubs The Chesterton station also has a shuttle to Valparaiso which has a lot of great restaurants and a cool downtown.
Thanks for posting this, it brings back many great memories
Thank you for that train ride. I found it quite enjoyable. Liked stumpy pigeon as well.
I've grown up taking the Metra MDN line, watching a south bound line is so refreshing!
When I last visited Chicago, a few years ago, I made a point to ride the South Shore Line from The Loop to Ogden Dunes. I love that line!
I am a native and rode the SS and the IC many times. Allow me a small correction. There is no such thing as Hegewisch, Illinois, Hegewisch is part of Chicago. Other than that, very enjoyable and brought back a lot of memories.
You are indeed correct, but it is listed at Hegewisch on the Employee timetables :)
@@Robbi496 I went to Chicago Vocational High School and many of my mid-sixties classmates were from Hegewisch. Spent more that a few Friday nights driving around Hegewisch and Indianapolis Blvd, drinking cheap beer and looking for those elusive girls we could never seem to find. If anyone ever runs into a character named Mike Mattich, not sure of the spelling, see if he remembers a guy named Beau and my 57 Chevy convertible. I never forgot those folk. Used to drive around with the top down when it was around 30 degrees. Doesn't seem like over 50 years ago.
A neighborhood of a city can still be place, state. At least that's the official way to write postal addresses in Boston: Roslindale, Massachusetts; West Roxbury, Massachusetts; etc.
@@sammartland932 Not in Chicago. If you addressed something to Hegewisch, Illinois, it would probably be returned. The only addresses would be in the City of Chicago or one one of the suburbs. If you are talking about a suburb, yes it would be addressed to that suburb such as Oak Park, Highland Park etc. But if it was in the geographical area of Chicago it would have to be addressed Chicago. Chicago has many neighborhoods with many different names but they are all addressed to Chicago. Good Army buddies from Boston and Lynn. I was there in the late 70's, went to a Red Sox game. Never saw so many drunks and fights except at a Chicago Black Hawk game. Still, I loved the city.
If I was a driver on that system, that incessant bell would drive me completely mad! Are ear-protectors mandatory for the driver?
100% agree. What is it with America and the need to make incessantly ring bells that no where else in the world has the same problem. Even in a rail yard. This is 101 on how not to run a rail system. And those stations are far too close together the train crawls along.
Awesome video. From beginning to the end excellent filming. Thanks for sharing. God bless.
What the heck is that junction thing at the platform of Hegewisch for @ 34:20?
It's for freight trains. Most freight trains are too wide to pass the platform, so they need to be far away. But the South Shore trains need to be close so there isn't a gap to step over. Passenger trains use the 1st and 3rd rails, while freight trains use the 2nd and 4th rails.
@@AdventuresCooper Really interesting! Thanks for that!
It’s called gauntlet track and I suspect Cooper Dahle is on the money with his explanation.
I rode the whole way. Great video. Thanks. 😎👍
Is there a South Shore Line video Michigan City to South Bend, either present day or back in the Orange Cars days? Thanks
Well done! Thanks!!
I have always found it interesting that the South Shore was classified as an interurban. It is, but it seems so much more a heavy duty electric/ diesel railroad line
Robbi496 Correct me if I’m wrong but I think Inter urban just means a rail line connecting 2 cities. 80 years ago I would have called it an interurban, but now I just think of it as a commuter train. I guess it could still be classified as one but it doesn’t feel like it.
@@justinanderson181 me too, but it is a full fleged freight railroad also, though they do not own the infrastructure
@@justinanderson181 Interurbans were more like heavy duty streetcars that ran along separated right of ways between towns and in the street within town. To be honest, the South Shore Line has lost most of its interurban characteristics other than the bit of street running in Michigan City.
They used to be more like a Streetcar or light rail line but have since gotten heavier equipment
Riding trains up north are fun ,I used to stay in Elkhart ,Indiana and rode over to Chicago sometimes
I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park. On rare occasions, we would ride the South Shore Line. Last year, I got to ride the South Shore Line all of the way from South Bend to Chicago and back to South Bend on a warm, sunny day in October. This was the first time I got to ride on the whole line from one end to the other and I did enjoy it. What day in 2016 was this filmed on?
I purchase my first JVC boom box in the 80's traveling from Gary to Chicago.
Every two weeks I would catch the train and make payments. Yep, I had the law-a-way plan)
As old blue eyes would say, *Thanks For The Memory*
Much changed from when I last rode the South Shore some 60 years ago. All the stations are vastly improved, however I did recognize various landmarks around Kensington, good to know aome rhings don't change.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is the only electric heavy rail line in the US outside of the Northeast Corridor right?
Until Caltrain comes online, yes
There are hundreds of miles of electric heavy rail other than the northeast corridor, including Amtrak from Philadelphia to Harrisburg plus many Septa, NJ Transit, Long Island Railroad, and Metro-North lines.
Denver has a heavy rail system that uses the same EMUs as Philly. Caltrain is upgrading, ACE and MBTA are supposed to get an upgrade too.
did anybody ever thought about counting how many times the bell rang
Really, that bell rang for an hour?
So annoying, isn't it!
I'm only 8 minutes in and I've got a headache from it already. That's it, I'm going to look at another video. Can't take this anymore.
@Sparrow its not the whole US, it is law however to ring it when in yards, and approaching and departing Stations. This engineer or the railroad company just decided that they want to ring the bell for 11 minutes strait.
Think about the motor man and the passengers that have to listen to it. Oy ya volga!
@@datboi04 Well, I guess you never been on a Chicago or New York City subway train before have you?
What’s with bell? Is it some kind of special instruction that it be rung at all times or....?
Christopher Jacobucci in the chicago portion of the ssl it runs along the metra electric and I think it’s required when it passes stations to ring the bell. I’m not sure though
@@rohanthiruvathukal2181 it's also due to the quiet zones so they can't blow the horn at the rr crossings.
I remember reading about this in one of the railroad modeling genre of magazine back in ~'69.
Why the overlapping tracks (34:25), are some trains wider than others?
I believe those are guard rails, so that if the train happens to derail it keeps heading straight instead of destroying the platform
Actually, they are separate tracks for freight and passenger trains. Freight takes the outermost rail, because of overhang, and passenger takes the platform side. Source: I Love Big Trains's South Shore segment.
Good can ride. You could've been doing with the camera on a tripod or ledge though. The moving camera does get a bit irritating
This trip is on my wish list. Maybe in two years or so when I'm back in Chicago for a convention!
As of 2019, is the South Shore Line running the single-level cars, the bi-level cars or both types?
Cats01 they are running both types
Some of the rusted trusses utilized to hold up the electrical lines still look original in the Chicago and Gary vicinities. The ones made of wooden poles appear to be replacements. Am I correct?
The Bird waiting on. His train to come too lollll 😂😂😂😂😂
I don't know that much about the South Shore Line but was there a reason why there's 2 separate platforms instead instead of just one center platform at Hegewisch station?
I looking for a cabride from NY to Boston. I watched it for a long time but now I don't know to locate it. Do you know where are there some video about this? Thanks.
What exactly is that eerie electrical sound? I know it's an electric car, but I hear that sound on the Metra electric line. It's a creepy noise.
MrHoffmannfd its the sound the traction motors make at different speeds
It’s the buzz from VVVF drive traction motors. It makes that noise when it it changing speed and accelerating.
Mehta Electric Line also has trains that make similar noises because they are from the same manufacturer with similar traction system.
Traction motors, particularly because the trains draw their power from overhead catenary cables.
Many Thanks for this Video Sir. Most Appreciated.
Images speak as Poetry.
What is the purpose of the two sets of tracks offset from each other at the station? 34:42
Its for freight trains
Yup gauntlet track. So freights can pass further from the platform they have a switch they can take to use them.
At 32:43 there is a Conrail switcher about a 2 minute drive from where that bridge is if you look to your right and drive you might see it for yourself. I did!
Pretty cool! thanks for the video!
The pigeon wasn't having it.
That poor pigeon only has one foot.
The pigeon was dying.
I grew up and lived in Chicago until 1982 l used to take South Shore line to Indiana dunes state park.
3:29 interesting flang-hitting/scraping-the-rail sound.
Hiw much does it cost ?
Very nicely done. Whom did you ask to shoot from that vantage point?
If you wanted to see the metra highliner units there 2 rows with 6 highliner cars in blue island metra eletric station 127 st yard
That brick sturcture on the left is last remaining part of the Central Station Complex
I cant believe how many metro trains you passed I thought double slip switches were ony at union station the one at 19.19 in the middle no ware
Must that infernal bell ring all the time?
I had a girlfriend who lived in South Bend, IN who took this train in on weekends. I had to pick her up at that ramshackle station on was it Dearborn? The C&NW station?
Randolph later known as Millennium Station
@@MetroShadow1 I'll take a leap and say they've rehabbed the place, n'est pas? Last time I was in it, it was pretty much down-at-the-heel.
Wouldn't it be cool if the Metra folks would repaint the retired highliners Orange and use them for special events?
That would be nice.
I would like it more if South Shore Line acquired those units instead of buying Nippon-Shayro bi-level cars!
Ty Hik The south shore has 1 old retired high liner parked in Michigan City.
I think they still have a couple old cars left in storage, which I’m not sure what they use them for but they could run it some day as a heritage train
Strange how overhead wires don't have zig-zag design in order to prevent slider from wear.
Those tracks and junctions look like they could use some servicing and upgrading. The train has to slow down a lot through some of them
This was 2016. Since then, the SS upgraded most of the turnouts on their trackage to high speed. The ones on the Metra tracks, before they split off at Kensington, are under Metra's control.
Being a Packer fan I still shake my head at the UFO that landed to the left of the tracks at about 9:40. Ruined a perfectly good stadium.
I too follow the NFC NORTH and am very disturbed......at how many Sasquatch there are in plain view on this trip but nobody noticed.👀
Soldier Field from 8:07-8:38!!!! Daaaaaa🐻's!! 👍
This may sound dumb but I didn't know that that area was electrified also , I guess once the train gets out of the metro area it goes faster...........
dude i literally riding this traint from gary to chicago tomorrow the south shore line train
CHICAGO IS SUCH A BADASS CITY..
And if your on the university park metra 3 station heading in to chicago you will see highliners and metra pullman cars
Good thing we just have pigeon's in our SI Ferry terminal. (LOOOL)
This train sounds like Santa's sleigh :) Why the constant sound of the alarmbells?
@Ye Old Geezer Ah, never knew that. Thanks!
Can someone turn that bell off please
Just hit the mute button
1:09 awew he made freinds with a pigeon :3
Flying rat
why is the bell on for the most part
When approaching platforms for passengers is my guess
BETTER THAN WATCHING “FORREST 🏓 GUMP!” thank you 🧑🎤 🏁 👩💼👩🎓👩⚖️
I’m not going anywhere for IL
Since the pigeon is on a bench, I guess it is not a stool pigeon?
Railroad bell repairman wanted...great pay and benifits.
Oh wow that’s good news
No more orange and maroon on the bi-levels, not even on the South Shore logo! Hmm!
Good Stuff AF
Here we go again. The train switches off at 27:26 and go to where? The tracks that go straight ahead go to where and the tracks where the train is heading now goes where? You see where I live, the west coast, we never see or have track leading off here and there like I see here. Electric trains do not operate and only diesel rules the rails.
Robert -- The tracks going to the left is the South Shore line to Hammond, Gary, Michigan City, and South Bend IN. The tracks going straight is the METRA Electric to Blue Island/University Park.
@@Silver_Turtle The track going to the right is also used by the Amtrak's City of New Orleans line.
And the Illini and Saluki, too. I was only referring to the electrified lines.
Good video.
God how do passengers put up with DING DING DING DING DING DING DING for 90 minutes?
It's only in the front car. I guess they get use to it like other people that get used to heavy traffic on a daily basis.
Naw man that's the jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It should be where they ring the bell when the train approaches and departs, also by any crossings they should ring it. They shouldn't ring it throughout the whole route. I love the bell sound but not when it constantly rings.
What can CGA? Chicago Transit Authority can't buy this line so they can make it part of the city of Chicago. Credit cards with $30 or more but it would be a good investment because that way even have Indiana part of your tax revenue.
Nice video but why are you moving the camera so much? It should have been locked down. ;-)
taking the train to the birthplace of the jacksons
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Im from the UK an if I was on an American train that bell wud drive me mad
Bell power
dong
Real nice
Oh hi there is your birthday card for me today too so close by your house
I’m not going anywhere for
Not a bad video, but the constant side to side motion of the camera made me dizzy. Could have done a better job steadying the camera...
Gary indianna is one of the only places that a HOLIDAY INN, HAD TO CLOSE UP, BECAUSE OF ROBBERY. that was in the 70s. THE LOCAL RESADENTS STOLD EVERYTHING THEY COOD! hay, wheres the graffity on the cars? and i dident see any busted windows! Safest place in town is next to the police station! I used to work near Gary! like a third world city.
Darn Americans and their incessant need to ring a continuous bell even in rail yards. Meanwhile in the rest of the world everyone is intelligent enough to know to avoid rail tracks.
The Vomit Comet.
Maybe it is the effect of the snow but that was such a depressing train ride.
I've seen this before. The most depressing sight for me is the part leaving Chicago, with all the empty trackways and unused tracks and once-busy tracks now used for storage. I suspect this is the old IC right-of-way. Just sad.
I thought the blue shadows on the snow were rather lovely, actually...
It is the old Illinois Central right-of-way. Said the man who was born and grew up on the south side of Chicago (we lived in Hyde Park).
Absolutely no need whatsoever to have the bell rining constantly!! Like many other spaects of American Railways - they have not moved on like the rest of the Railway World!!
They keep the bell ringing as a warning for trespassers and stations the train doesn't stop at, as well as grade crossings. This is quite normal over here, and if it works, we aren't going to change it.
I watched a video once
Oh wow that’s good news