Historic Chicago CTA Green Line Footage
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Older residents of Oak Park and Chicago's Austin neighborhood will remember a time when the CTA's Green Line trains ran as a surface railroad west of Laramie. This all changed in 1962 when an embankment was built alongside the already elevated Union Pacific West tracks and the Green Line became all elevated. In the first half of this video we see the trains operating on the street and the Harlem, Oak Park, Ridgeland and Austin stations. Then we see a couple of minutes of the line after it it became elevated in 1962.The video ends with some early evening footage of trains on Chicago's downtown loop tracks. Through out the film we see lots of classic cars and vintage train rolling stock.
Wow! The old 1920s vintage, CTA "4000 series" "L" cars using trolley poles (versus 3rd rail) just like the Evanston line did into the 1970s. I only rode on these "L" cars once in regular service. That was a round trip on the "Evanston Express" from Howard St. to downtown and back in the summer of 1973. Thanks for sharing!
I love history like this. You have a year for this video?
Probably shot over the course of a few years. The first part with the surface tracks late 50's or early 60's. Then skip ahaed to 1963 or 4 when they were using the old train cars. Finally a little later the footage that has the newer cars.
It was fun riding the train in Chi. As kids we used to take the Ravenswood train from Fullerton ave and go to Wrigley Field.
hey do you remember that street-level rail line coming down the alley past Cubby Bear Crossing Clark into the Wrigley Field parking lot? That old line used to run south and hook up with the old Bloomingdale line near the Chicago River.
@@scottconcertman3423 No, bit before my time.
@@abbasrizvi9389, I never seen a train run on that Wrigley Field line but the crossing across Clark into the west parking lot was still there for a long time before they removed it. Maybe you'll see you in an old pictures someday.
@@scottconcertman3423 I worked that line as a locomotive engineer for the Soo Line back in the 1990s. By then the north end of the line was cut back to serving the Peerless Candy company where we delivered hopper and tank cars of sugar and corn syrup. The line, which I too recall, that ran past Wrigley Field was for delivering coal to the CTA which then delivered it to some on line businesses the CTA served.
@@WAL_DC-6B, yes Peerless Wow I lived near Steinmetz High School. That's where idiots tried jump famous George Street track Crossing. What an era you were part of. Thanks for bringing RR history back to folks memories.
Never realized how lucky I was as a kid back in the seventies getting to Explorer abandoned neighborhood tracks and experience all the old industrial buildings Hopper silos they once served.
Some of the old Chicago surface line turnarounds were still existing too.
That's right Milwaukee Road got taken over by Soo. You worked my favorite branch paralleling Narragansett up to Dunning through Cary Brickyard switching behind Chicago fender.
City planners had been pretty smart laying out equidistant branches servicing pre-planed industrial residential neighborhoods before homes were even built.
I could see why Daley wanted to keep industrial zones intact since having lost much to multi-residential.
Ordinance along main streets prevented residential from mixing in which I guess why even as late as the 70s there were still open Lots like along Belmont.
Once again thanks for sharing that flashback.
It wasn't called the green-line in this video, was it? The color codes became known in the 90s, from my recollection
Thanks for watching Manny and you are 100% correct at the time this footage was shot this was the Lake St. line. And the color codes came in the 1990's. Found this post about the color coding system. chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/02/20/cta-trains-named-by-color-why/
I thought back in the day CTA can blow at Rail Crossings.