Erie Lackawanna (C&WI) Hammond, Indiana to Chicago
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- Final E-L west end video. Includes all the other tenant roads of the C&WI too (C&O, N&W, L&N).
0:00 - Hammond (Hohman Ave.)
2:31 - State Line Tower
6:03 - South Shore interlude at Hegewisch
7:38 - Burnham (thanks to admydragon for ID'ing PC train on Hegewisch branch)
9:11 - Calumet River bridge
10:43 - Pullman Jct.
15:35 - Ford St. tower in Englewood (thanks to wmuzeke for ID'ing this)
15:52 - 87th St. to 81st St.
21:42 - 74th St.
24:33 - Englewood
26:31 - 47th St. tower
27:31 - eastbound chase of an E-unit powered freight back toward Hammond.
30:06 - Caboose passing (probably) Kouts (thanks to wmuzeke for ID'ing this)
The Track Density in the Hammond area is incredible,also the last great days of Chicago Railroading
This video has all the elements of the final days of many roads. Pure gold.
One of these videos/ Films l wish never ended! Thank you so much for sharing the vintage footage!! Brought back memories of my youth…
such great images of the fallen flags of rail. thank goodness for the individual going out and getting
all of these wonderful movies {probably 8-mm} they were so short of a run time over the next generation
of VHS cameras with tapes. but very expensive to purchase.
An EL tower operator friend once told me Hammond Drawbridge was the dirtiest place he ever worked at.
10:43 South Deering near 114th St. & Torrence Ave. In the shot of the Amtrak (which looks like the Riley), you can see the Wisconsin Steel Plant right behind it (owned by International Harvester). That bridge structure across the tracks carried coke across the Calumet River to Republic Steel.
12:10 Pullman Jct.
15:35 Ford St. Tower (PRR/C&WI) which was between 58th and 59th St. in Englewood. PC train is headed west. This is the PRR line that once connected the Fort Wayne & Bradford Lines (different from the SC&S).
15:53 81st St. Tower
I really enjoyed the final shot at Hohman Ave. with a clear view of ED tower atop the bridge. You can see the engineer release his hand from the horn pull cord, too. And just look at all of those crossing watchman towers in Hammond! The very last shot looks like it's at Kouts. Paul just captured the tail end of the chase on his way back to Ohio. A lot of this footage never made it to the Revelation Video. Great film restoration & transfer, as always!
The coke bridge in the South Deering scene carried coke from Interlake Steel's coke plant at 112th and Torrence Ave to their blast furnace plant at 108th St on the East Side. Interlake Steel was reorganized into Acme Steel at a later date. Both the coke plant and the furnace plant closed in the early 2000s.
Republic Steel had their own coke plant within their East Side plant, located immediately south of Interlake's furnace plant.
27:52 and onward is such an amazing sequence. The photog is up on the CWI State Line Main looking N/NW back towards 81st St. He scurries down back to a safe position to watch the same train southbound fly over the BRC mains. Present day this same view is attained from the parking lot of the Norfolk Southern dorms. Things look much the same today minus all the fallen flag content. It is quite the busy spot even in modern terms with the NS utilizing the flyover and the Belt using the underpass.
He continues to follow the same Erie train down to the lift bridge paralleling Torrence Ave north of 130th St. Surely it was slow going for the Erie and CWI thru Pullman and that allowed our photog to stay a couple steps ahead of the train.
Fantastic video.
Grew up in Hegewisch and spent hours watching the South Shore and EL at the Torrence Avenue lift bridge. Thanks for sharing and rekindling memories of my youth!
Who was the photographer? I'm very happy that he or she took the time and effort to document the EL in its twilight years. And thank you for making this video available for public viewing!
Paul Geiger.
@@RailroadMediaArchive - thank you!
Great video! I’m guessing from 1975-1976 era. Thanks so much for sharing this! Dad was a C&O engineer out of Peru 1962-2001. Might see him in Amtrak or Chessie engines. I have several of his switch keys. One from this area says IHB (Indiana Harbor Belt). RIP
Great video of fallen flags, thanks for sharing, from Germany
The sheer variety of motive power in those days was insane... especially, of course, in the central rail hub of the country
Thank you for sharing.👍
Awesome video😮!!!
It's interesting to see even though the railroad went under the l&n was a very big presence in Chicago in the early 70s
Buying up the monon and of course part of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois from Evansville.
Although mopac would eventually buy them out I believe the Dalton yard was originally a CE&I that Mopac would eventually take over?
For the Louisville & Nashville
18:20
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Evokes a feeling of meloncholy. Very nice.
thankjs 4 my favorite line the big e
Cool video
That's pretty cool it may not seem like that long ago at times
great video bro ❤❤❤❤
0:07 There's a video about NKP Berks in the late 1950s that shows that same place
Excellent video! Where did EL go from Pullman Jct? Hard to trace right of way. Also 74 th st & 81 st street tower? Thanks !
Past Hammond it wasn't really the EL. They were a tenant of the Chicago & Western Indiana (terminal railroad and owner of Dearborn Station). Most of the trackage you're asking about is today BRC (Belt Railway of Chicago).
On Google Maps (or your favorite internet web mapping site) follow the tracks west from Pullman Jct. Then they swing northwest and north and parallel I-94. The big wye at 74th Street is very much still there. A Norfolk Southern intermodal yard (I'm not sure it's name) occupies pretty much all of the former EL 51st Street intermodal yard. The CW&I paralleled the PRR (now NS's Chicago Line) to Alton Jct/21st Street, where it crossed the PRR to go to Dearborn Station.
Ok! Cool thanks ! I was thinking it followed the old nickle plate north of Pullman jct, now I get it. Again great video! One of my favorite parts was Torrence Ave lift bridge👍🏻
15:37 maybe that Hegewisch line that Pennsy owned?
I agree with this. It was kind of nasty towards it's final days. The neighborhood was not good either. It's Hegewisch Junction or the Bernice Cutoff.
@@davidsharp3110 @admydragon You're both probably right. I didn't think that was on the SC&S.
@@RailroadMediaArchive I have it on good word that the footage is in fact of the Pennsy Englewood Connecting railroad
@@admydragon - you are correct. The Englewood Connecting RR did just that between PRR's Ft Wayne and Panhandle lines.
This is from the Revelation video Erie-Lackawanna West End.
Some of these films were used in that video, but that was 30 years ago and the film transfer was very poor.
how much of this scene still looks the same?
Who was operating those Southern consists to Chicago? Had to be either BN or MoPac. No direct connection to N&W with the merger several years away.
I believe MoPac.
It was MoPac. On a run through agreement!
Where was ford st tower. I cant find a ford st in Englewood
maps.app.goo.gl/gHGAvXooAfoQ1UWz5
It was where the PRR Englewood Connecting Railroad crossed the C&WI.
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