CTA's Ride the Rails: Pink Line Real-time (2019) v1.1

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 17. 10. 2019
  • CTA's Ride the Rails Real-time Collection: • CTA's Ride the Rails: ...
    CTA's Ride the Rails Time-lapse Collection: • CTA's Ride the Rails: ...
    Ever wonder what it would be like to see Chicago as if you were a CTA train operator? In 2014, the Chicago Transit Authority released its most popular video series, “Ride the Rails,” a collection of videos highlighting CTA’s eight rail lines, each seen from the perspective of the rail operator. Since its release, “Ride the Rails” has garnered nearly 3 million views worldwide.
    A lot has changed in five years: two new stations have been built (Washington-Wabash and Cermak-McCormick Place), two stations have been rebuilt (Wilson and 95th/Dan Ryan), and one station has been retired and demolished (Randolph/Wabash).
    For the series’ 5th Anniversary, CTA is releasing an update to “Ride the Rails,” which you can view in both real-time and time-lapse versions. All eight lines have been recaptured from the operator’s perspective, this time in stunning 4K video. The CTA recorded the ride at various times of the day, including sunrise and sunset, and morning and evening rush hours. You’ll even learn facts about the CTA system in the real-time version.
    So, hop aboard and enjoy the ride!
    v1.1 - corrected station signage

Komentáře • 198

  • @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102

    Madison Street should really have its station rebuilt so as to provide more direct 'L' service to and from United Center during games.

    • @milesdevlon
      @milesdevlon Před 4 lety +21

      I was thinking the same thing, a United Center station should be erected!

    • @CTAConnections
      @CTAConnections  Před 4 lety +55

      CDOT is currently building a station at Damen on the Green line to better serve this neighborhood.

    • @janeentumbao8690
      @janeentumbao8690 Před 8 měsíci +3

      I agree!🎉❤😊

    • @roygoodhand1301
      @roygoodhand1301 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Call it Station 23 in honor of you-know-who and I'll go with it.

  • @janeentumbao8690
    @janeentumbao8690 Před 8 měsíci +6

    This is one of those lines where you blink too hard and could end up in a rough area.
    When I lived in Little Village, I used to take the pink line all the time to work in the loop/west loop. Then I started working in Oakbrook.
    It's amazing how drastically a city's appearance changes in just one train ride!
    And girly here is a cool conductor! Passengers recognized her. And she's not afraid to tell riders to move along!😂

  • @paulmartin5642
    @paulmartin5642 Před rokem +13

    I notice that the station signs not only have the station name but also map coordinates which makes finding the stations on a map easy.

  • @erykcszminschki7104
    @erykcszminschki7104 Před 2 lety +40

    These vids are strangely, but wonderfully relaxing and calming for my anxiety and neuro issues. I love it

    • @dimitri4484
      @dimitri4484 Před rokem +1

      Omgz mY aNxIEtY anD DePReSsIoN!!11
      Lol I bet you think there's more than 2 genders

    • @chickennuggetcentral576
      @chickennuggetcentral576 Před 11 měsíci

      @@dimitri4484 czcams.com/video/b7oscFP-IbM/video.html

    • @ShadowOnMobile
      @ShadowOnMobile Před 10 měsíci +1

      ​@@dimitri4484bro stop being mean to him 😡😭

    • @janeentumbao8690
      @janeentumbao8690 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Until you get off at the Pulaski or Kedzie stop. Then they'll flare back up!😂

  • @Leppalimes
    @Leppalimes Před 4 lety +60

    Chicago has such a beautiful skyline. There's just something about the way it looms that's hard to get other places. Minneapolis has a little bit of that depending on where you are but only very specific places that frame the skyline to look bigger than it really is.

    • @RsRj-qd2cg
      @RsRj-qd2cg Před 4 lety +6

      It's in a flat area and the skyscrapers are distributed evenly and widely.

    • @erie910
      @erie910 Před 3 lety +2

      Yhv

    • @Anonymouslikemydad
      @Anonymouslikemydad Před rokem +4

      I think that’s because the city radiates out of the downtown area, plus most of the west north and south sides are low down so you can see downtown from far away

  • @datkidindaback425
    @datkidindaback425 Před rokem +3

    The show Shameless takes place in Chicago. 9:11 you can see Sheila’s house hidden under the tree in the left

  • @Robbi496
    @Robbi496 Před 3 lety +15

    Still another post to bug/ inform you. This line used to continue west to Oak Park Avenue in Berwyn but was cut back to 54th Avenue in the 1950's

  • @paulwilbern1166
    @paulwilbern1166 Před 2 lety +5

    I am proud to say, i have never paid to ride the rail!!😛it was an art that every kid practices at a certain age.im68 years young.a true CHI-TOWN native!!!☺.📀📀📀📀📀Goat.

  • @stephenharper9961
    @stephenharper9961 Před 5 měsíci +2

    As I've seen with all of these cta videos is quite possibly the busiest signal box/cabin in the world controlling the Chicago circle

  • @thetransitfanofchicago1718
    @thetransitfanofchicago1718 Před 4 lety +28

    They should do a full ride with a 5000-series train coming from 54th yard to Jefferson Park

  • @snickers100dg
    @snickers100dg Před měsícem +1

    Excellent video. Down town Chicago is beautiful.

  • @rgalesnyc
    @rgalesnyc Před 4 lety +36

    Hi from NYC ..Great ride.. So much space between Stations.

    • @kostya_ivanov
      @kostya_ivanov Před 3 lety +3

      @Rogelio Jon shut the fuck up spammer

    • @ismaelquintero394
      @ismaelquintero394 Před 3 lety

      Window slord why do u say that stupid

    • @kevinhoward9593
      @kevinhoward9593 Před 2 lety +3

      you have to remember most of the lines used to be owned by Railroads and weren't really designed to be a rapid transit system.

    • @robfriedrich2822
      @robfriedrich2822 Před 2 lety +3

      The suburban stations, inside Chicago it's a distance, you could easily walk

  • @DanTheCaptain
    @DanTheCaptain Před 4 lety +70

    These videos are great. The Chicago 'L' must be one of the most interesting and different subway systems in the world. The majority of the system is elevated (For which it get's it's name from), or on ground level and to my knowledge is one of vary few subway systems to have at-grade railway crossings! Not only that, it has two of the longest underground station platforms in the world (Jackson-Monroe-Washington on the Red and Blue lines respectively) and the famous "Loop" section!

    • @anonymike8280
      @anonymike8280 Před 3 lety +10

      The whole system has 110 miles of lines. About 11 miles is subway. Some of it is on embankment, some is elevated, some is freeway median, some is grade level. The system was laid out before 1930, probably largely before 1914. There are only two new lines, the Orange Line section that goes from downtown to Midway Airport across the Southwest Side and the section that goes along the median of the Dan Ryan expressway through the South Side.
      Everything else is either a modification or extension of an existing line. That includes the Congress Street line which replaced the Garfield line and the Milwaukee Avenue line going to O'Hare Airport, which formerly terminated at Logan Square.
      The Chicago system has nowhere near the ridership of the New York system but it is essential to the economy of the city and probably to some degree a tourist attraction of its own accord.

    • @ROTE
      @ROTE Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah I'm very surprised that the CTA Subway has railroad crossings. The NYC subways also have them but only in train yards.

    • @DanTheCaptain
      @DanTheCaptain Před 3 lety

      @@ROTE Yeah I wonder how many incidents happen at these crossings. Whether it be with a pedestrian or by cars. Also, there seems that there is no way of protecting wildlife and pedestrians from the third rail.

    • @gethighonlife11
      @gethighonlife11 Před 2 lety +1

      @@anonymike8280 I was sure that what is now known as the "Blue Line" formerly terminated at Jefferson Park before the O'Hare extension. I remember as a kid when taking trips to Wisconsin seeing the end of that line because at that time, I thought it was the same train as the Dan Ryan "L" because it was in the middle of the expressway.

    • @anonymike8280
      @anonymike8280 Před 2 lety +1

      @@gethighonlife11 In my day, the Blue LIne (Milwaukee Ave. Line) ended at Loghan Square. It was extended in parts, I believe. I left Chicago in 1975.

  • @theyuha
    @theyuha Před 4 lety +7

    I am glad they changed the name of this line. It used to be the Cermak Blue Line. if you were not careful you would end up on the Cermak Line instead of going to Forest Park. Both trains were blue. Now it continues N. further from the Hospital.

    • @mic1240
      @mic1240 Před 3 lety +2

      Or for those of us who remember before colors, the Douglas line (now shorter, used to go father west)

  • @karlpiepenburg3157
    @karlpiepenburg3157 Před 3 lety +9

    Many years ago, this was the Douglas Park branch of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated, which included the Garfield and Humboldt Park Lines (now both gone), the Logan Square Line and the Douglas branch. Before the Dearborn Subway was built in 1954, the Garfield Branch headed west from the Southwest corner of the loop. At around Paulina, the various lines would branch off, with Logan Square and Humboldt Park heading north, the Garfield going straight west, and the Douglas pretty much following the same route it does today

  • @raymondfleming7349
    @raymondfleming7349 Před 4 lety +13

    At 55:04 if you look very carefully, you'll see a train headed down the incline to the Congress Expressway (Blue Line).

    • @samuelbeep
      @samuelbeep Před 4 lety +4

      Raymond Fleming That is the Loomis ramp. Up until 2008, 2 years after the Pink Line opened, the Blue Line had a Cermak branch. That is why the stations between Polk and 54th/Cermak look so old.

    • @samuelbeep
      @samuelbeep Před 4 lety

      Errr.... classic

    • @Just-PJ
      @Just-PJ Před 4 lety +3

      The pink line has a train that turns into a blue line still. Just during rush periods. I believe it is just one run for each rush hour.

  • @ShadowOnMobile
    @ShadowOnMobile Před rokem +3

    I've been riding CTA since 2017 and i love the transportation keep up the great work CTA❤

  • @oct197.
    @oct197. Před 4 lety +10

    Wow at the beginning at Cicero there was a lot of horn

  • @jwf3148
    @jwf3148 Před 4 lety +9

    Thanks to all of the commentators who have and who are providing all kinds insightful information and anecdotes. Very much appreciated.

  • @tech83studio38
    @tech83studio38 Před 4 lety +19

    This is a Douglas [ B ] train making all stops to the Loop.
    Step up and all the way in watch the doors doors closing.

  • @patrickrichmond9896
    @patrickrichmond9896 Před 3 lety +8

    I am glad this channel has come up with a way to give tourists a good look at Chicago. These that were made over the same routes that were created in 2016 or so has shown a lot of work CTA has done to make it easier for people with disabilities to get around. At 34:02 was the Wabash/Randolph station. It was closed and torn down. At 34:18 is the Washington/Randolph station. What i am seeing is a work in progress to get the entire system up to ADA standards. Stations that hasn't been upgraded to ADA standards has been written up. The buses are all ADA compliant and are all low-floor.

  • @user-jk1qo8wz8u
    @user-jk1qo8wz8u Před rokem +2

    日本語で失礼します。LOOPは最高ですね。いつ見ても見飽きません。いつか実際に見てみたいものです。

  • @fabianakaizen5647
    @fabianakaizen5647 Před rokem +4

    0:18 54th/Cermak
    1:40 Cicero
    4:34 Kostner
    6:15 Pulaski
    7:46 Central Park
    9:17 Kedzie
    10:50 California
    12:27 Western
    14:39 Damen
    17:21 18th
    19:25 Polk
    23:17 Ashland
    25:18 Morgan
    27:12 Clinton
    30:34 Clark/Lake
    32:09 State/Lake
    34:14 Washington/Wabash
    35:33 Adams/Wabash
    39:37 Harold Washington Library
    40:58 LaSalle/Van Buren
    42:37 Quincy
    43:58 Washington/Wells

  • @milesdevlon
    @milesdevlon Před 4 lety +22

    I remember when this was the Douglas O'hare line!

    • @Tone034
      @Tone034 Před 4 lety +4

      So do I

    • @tech83studio38
      @tech83studio38 Před 4 lety +2

      Yes

    • @Robbi496
      @Robbi496 Před 4 lety +3

      Ha Ha, I remember when it was the West - Northwest service and this was the "B" Train

    • @largetman
      @largetman Před 4 lety +5

      Before that, the route was called the Douglas Milwaukee B.

    • @thetransitfanofchicago1718
      @thetransitfanofchicago1718 Před 4 lety +4

      That used to be the branch of the Blue line

  • @robb1324
    @robb1324 Před 2 lety +7

    This has to be the only light rail in the country that blows RIGHT PAST one of the largest venues in it's city. A stadium that hosts not one, but TWO major sports franchises.
    I sarcastically laugh every time I'm leaving the United Center and walking underneath this line on the way to my car... It's even more funny when one happens to be passing over you during the walk.

    • @catazat
      @catazat Před 2 lety

      Corrupt politicians and carbrains blocked a proposed station there

    • @heyjude9895_
      @heyjude9895_ Před rokem +2

      Yeah I was staying in Pilsen and the Damen stop was so close to me that I initially planned to take the L to Ashland and walk because surely the stop couldn’t be that far from the stadium, right? RIGHT??? Yeah, definitely glad I checked out the route the day before instead of doing that 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @kaamilahmed7052
    @kaamilahmed7052 Před rokem +2

    10:33 the metra comes at the perfect time

  • @DeOndertoon
    @DeOndertoon Před 11 měsíci +2

    Those glass and steel pillars of economy could maybe spell out their names to commuters? Would be nice landmarks.

  • @ATM015
    @ATM015 Před rokem +1

    12:10 Watch the Chicago skyline unveiled on the left 😍

  • @ronaldadams5371
    @ronaldadams5371 Před 3 lety +4

    Love to ride the cta down town such a beautiful site

  • @roygoodhand1301
    @roygoodhand1301 Před rokem +1

    17:55 I just realized that somehow, when counting all the stations, both past and present, 18th is the 18th station.

  • @thepauldinglight8640
    @thepauldinglight8640 Před 3 lety +11

    10:34 and 1:05:15 Metra passing

  • @paulwilbern1166
    @paulwilbern1166 Před 2 lety +1

    The Englewood Howard was my favorite back in the day from North to the South!! 50 years ago!☺📀📀📀📀📀Goat.

  • @Robbi496
    @Robbi496 Před 4 lety +6

    If my dad was still alive, he could tell you about wooden cars are coming to the Loop on the old Garfield Park "L" (Marshfield Avenue was the Junction point)

  • @NovaVortex193
    @NovaVortex193 Před 29 dny

    I was curious about that massive medieval tower in the background so i looked it up. It used to be part of a massive factory called hawthorne that was known for producing telephone equipment. they went belly up in '83 and now that tower is the only part left, the rest being destroyed and replaced with an ugly strip mall.

  • @Aceve14
    @Aceve14 Před 3 lety +2

    MTA should do one of its own "Ride the Rails" video series when they're filming RFW videos of each New York City Subway Line, the Staten Island Railway, as well as each line of the Metro North and Long Island Rail Roads.

  • @denvercolorado-olegmogilev576

    Sad we don't have subway system in Denver... It's make me depressed... Will ride here!

  • @unclephil9319
    @unclephil9319 Před 3 lety +5

    Hello from Philadelphia, really enjoy your videos. Never knew y'all have so much more L trains, as opposed to our two.

    • @fnihp30
      @fnihp30 Před 3 lety +3

      Chicago is a bigger city than Philadelphia.

    • @spagboiisback5841
      @spagboiisback5841 Před 3 lety

      fnihp30 ikr

    • @jamarerashaanmcdonald187
      @jamarerashaanmcdonald187 Před 3 lety

      @@fnihp30not that much bigger though , My home town is 5th biggest city in US , use to be 4 right behind Chicago but Houston got bigger

    • @michaelstovall23
      @michaelstovall23 Před rokem +1

      2×'s bigger than Philly, think of Philly times 2

    • @unclephil9319
      @unclephil9319 Před rokem

      It's really not because of the sizes of the city. Septa doesn't just serve Philadelphia, but majority of the area around southeastern Pennsylvania, hence the name Septa. Also our main mode of public commute is trolleys and buses. 8 trolley routes, almost 200 bus routes, and three train routes, one of em is elavated.

  • @theshowman8478
    @theshowman8478 Před 4 lety +5

    Amazing.

  • @jaywad8876
    @jaywad8876 Před 4 lety +5

    Love this!

  • @NovaVortex193
    @NovaVortex193 Před 4 měsíci +1

    An upload with the station stops cut out would be awesome.

  • @best_pilot
    @best_pilot Před 3 lety +2

    GOOD OLD TRAIN RATTLING NOISE ! ! !

  • @keelanthejet7082
    @keelanthejet7082 Před 3 lety +4

    These are the best trains in the u.s.

  • @normangeuder7806
    @normangeuder7806 Před 4 lety +4

    I really felt like I was the conductor of this train! Also, the Purple line video is notable. I imagine that these are instructional videos for motor-persons?? Our system is intricate and encompasses much of the city. If a train stalls though, it can gum up the whole works, at least on two lines? Thank You for this!

  • @MBT06
    @MBT06 Před 23 dny +1

    We need updated videos!!

  • @xxmoviemakerxxx
    @xxmoviemakerxxx Před 4 lety +9

    Hey CTAConnections, you forgot to show the Red Line transfer at State/Lake and State/Van Buren!

    • @michaelbrinkers1145
      @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety +3

      When I was a boy (in the 60s), I remember transferring between the elevated station (State/VanBuren) and the Howard subway (Jackson/State), without having to pay an extra fare. There was a ticket-booth where you picked up a free paper "transfer" before leaving one station, to give to the other station. I wonder how this "works" now, when there are no human agents at stations. PS....and its sad to see that State & VanBuren is not the shopping mecca it used to be.....Sears Roebuck and Goldblatts on the corners.

    • @PaulN504
      @PaulN504 Před 2 lety +3

      @@michaelbrinkers1145 The transfers are handled electronically using the Ventra farecards now. Since you have to tap the card on the turnstile when you first enter the system it knows where you first boarded and will allow free transfers using the same card between the elevated station there and the two Jackson subway stations (Red and Blue lines). This is also how the Red/Blue transfer through the Pedway works.

  • @michaelbrinkers1145
    @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety +3

    And while enjoying the views, let us not fail to salute the many talented Graffiti Artistes who risk their lives, decorating the bridges, overpasses, rooftops, etc.. with their visual inspirations and insightful interpretations. Ars Vita Longa Brevis!!!!!!

  • @MetxsightseerRailfan
    @MetxsightseerRailfan Před 4 lety +3

    Fun fact: if you get off at central park or kedzie you can get to the Gallagher house

    • @spagboi1268
      @spagboi1268 Před 3 lety

      There a lot of crackheads in their

  • @donnaclifford7691
    @donnaclifford7691 Před 3 lety +3

    can you please do a video where the teain anounces each stop? i loved in chicago for 23 years and this brings back memories also anounce when the train is departing as well

  • @Solitaryman70
    @Solitaryman70 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Very Very nice, the Pink/Line, Polk Street; isn’t that still called the Medical District?
    I’m giving the CTA credit where credit is due; BUT, I’m still upset about the Conductor’s being ZAPPED. 😢, They were the Straw that Stirred the Drink, they were the CTA. I can only imagine today the pretty ladies taking over that position, OMG 😱 in those uniforms with their sweet pleasant voices 😊. What a Selling Point! I’ll also bet CRIME would diminish significantly as well.

  • @kevinhoward9593
    @kevinhoward9593 Před rokem +3

    44:14 Probably take another 3 years for ridership to be that insane again.

  • @BNforever2009
    @BNforever2009 Před měsícem

    Wow, I didn't know Randolph/Wabash station and the Madison/Wabash station was torn down!

  • @agems56
    @agems56 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Are there videos where I can transfer trains with a click? That was real cool in the past!

  • @mgk920
    @mgk920 Před 3 lety +3

    Is there a place where someone can download some of the recorded announcements, the "Doors closing" chime in particular, as cell phone ring tones?
    Also, if it is technically possible, some great April Fools Day fun would be to swap the 'Doors closing' chime with the New York City MTA Subways' "Stand clear of the closing doors, please" recorded announcements for the day.

  • @anonymike8280
    @anonymike8280 Před 3 lety +1

    The station a 54th Ave is so long, they must have a people mover. Is it purple? A purple people mover? Hee-haw!

  • @erick-elbozo
    @erick-elbozo Před 11 měsíci +2

    Too bad there isnt any videos showing off the cermak branch before the pink line was open

  • @paulpassage4646
    @paulpassage4646 Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you for this beautiful video. I watched all the 'colours' several times on and on, because I can't get enough of it. Every thing I see is clear to me, except one thing... On the roofs of some buildings (of a company?) I see 'strange' objects, a kind of 'heavy pots'... I like them but can you please tell me what they represent ? Are they a Chicago thing ? Thank you in advance.

    • @poopymcgoof1712
      @poopymcgoof1712 Před rokem +2

      It might be water towers. I heard that in the earlier days of the cities history a good way to put out fires was to fill those big pots with water , and whenever a fire erupted they'd just pour the water down on or something along those lines.

  • @kingpinstatus916
    @kingpinstatus916 Před 3 lety +1

    WHOA😲 at 46:17!!! For a split second you think OMG Train crash because the Pink line Train doesn't slow up at all!!!

  • @jaymorgenthal9479
    @jaymorgenthal9479 Před 4 lety +7

    Love going across the maze of Tower 18.

  • @anmolmehta7116
    @anmolmehta7116 Před 4 lety +4

    Very entertaining. How come CTA stopped Blue Line trains from coming to 54 Cermak from O Hare Airport? Years back every alternate train would come here from the airport while other trains would go on to Forest Park.

    • @peterdodson4685
      @peterdodson4685 Před 4 lety +9

      They stopped that and started the Pink line. Pink line is douglas branch to the loop and out again.

    • @erick-elbozo
      @erick-elbozo Před 10 měsíci +1

      So before 2006, the blue line had trains coming to the douglas branch (later renamed cermak). When the pink line was opened, blue line service still existed towards 54th for rush hours only. In 2008 blue line service on the cermak branch ended therefore leaving the loomis to be used for maintenance purposes, trains bound to jefferson park on the blue line, and for detours if they is construction on the pink line

  • @jeffreysantner3717
    @jeffreysantner3717 Před 3 lety +3

    Watching these videos after a bowl of Sour OG with the sound off is far out man!!!!!

  • @Robbi496
    @Robbi496 Před 4 lety +3

    One more post to bother you with...That bridge you see in the distance when the train turns east onto Lake Street, is the way the Logan Square "L" went before they built the Milwaukee Avenue subway

    • @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102
      @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 Před 4 lety +2

      They can't exactly mask the fact that at 22:10 that slight jog is because that used to be a switch point, and the slight downhill descent was because the Logan Square Branch crossed over the Lake Street line, with a transfer point there, before crossing the Milwaukee/PRR tracks and meeting the current Blue Line alignment at Evergreen Junction.
      www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/images/Paulina/ROW%40Randolph01.jpg
      www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/images/Paulina/ROW@Lake1954.jpg
      www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/images/Paulina/ROW@Lake1961.jpg
      www.chicago-l.org/stations/images/Lake/laketransfer04.jpg
      www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/images/Paulina/ROW@Division01.jpg
      www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/images/6000/cta6000s%40PaulinaJct.jpg
      www.chicago-l.org/operations/lines/images/Paulina/ROW_demo1957.jpg

    • @michaelbrinkers1145
      @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety

      Studying the early history pre-Depression of the CTA, it seems like they made some baffling station locations, routes and configurations, probably because there were multiple transit agencies, often competing against each other. I guess consolidation into one agency simplified the confused planning, but I guess its more because of the emergence of the automobile. I wonder, if this pandemic will cause more changes in public transit, and in the future, when individuals will be able to travel in hermitically-sealed, self-driven seed-pods, as easy to get into as putting on a pair of shoes.

    • @Robbi496
      @Robbi496 Před 3 lety +2

      @@michaelbrinkers1145 Well, part of it was because the Metropolitan West side Elevated came into the loop via the old Garfield Park Branch at Marshfield Avenue. The Milwaukee avenue Subway sped up the route from Logan Square considerably. Just a minor correction however, the CTA did not exist until 1947, the original routes and station were laid out by private companies, which were consolidated into the Chicago Rapid Transit Company, which had a continuous history of financial distress. I am amazed at the number of residents of Humboldt P
      ark who did not realize that they had an "L" Branch which went to North and Lawndale and was abandoned in 1957!

    • @michaelbrinkers1145
      @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Robbi496 Thanks, so now I know I wasn't dreaming. I was born and grew up in Chicago during the 50s-early 60s, and my father took me L riding throughout the system. I vaguely remember some tracks that no longer exist, but couldn't convince others this they weren't hallucinations. For example I remember L tracks that went east from the Mdse Mart towards Navy Pier....tracks that went east near the Quincy-Wells station...tracks near the green line's Indiana station that went east towards South Shore...tracks south of Wilson that veered from the L and went street-level along the cemetery wall.....tracks and a deserted station that spanned north-south high over the Lake street El around Ashland (?). And yes, I remember some tracks running on the north side of North Avenue that split off from the Milwaukee Ave tracks.

    • @Robbi496
      @Robbi496 Před 3 lety +2

      @@michaelbrinkers1145 Hi! There was a spur that went along Wacker Drive and terminated at the mart. There was also a line that went to Randolph and South Water Street. These were both shuttle runs. the Normal park Rote went to 69th and Normal off the Englewood Branch. the Kenwood Line branched off at Indiana and terminated at 43rd and Lake Park. Also I think the Stockyards Line Branched off of the Indiana Station. you are right about the ground level Terminal at Wilson, which was the original terminal for the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company before they got the right to use the Milwaukee road Evanston Branch to Linden Avenue in Wilmette. The station you mentioned was called Lake street Transfer and allowed Lake street Patrons to transfer to the Logan Square / Humboldt park lines and the Garfield and Douglas Lines without going downtown.

  • @ralphripoff1
    @ralphripoff1 Před měsícem +1

    I am in the process of going through these videos of the CTA and I have a question. The trains seem to move incredibly fast compared to the NYC subway. Is it a trick of the perspective or do they move really fast?
    One more q: on the portion where the track is at grade, how do you ensure people don't just walk on to the track and hit the third rail?

  • @jimshorts9089
    @jimshorts9089 Před 2 lety +2

    Another life time ago- jumped on the "pink Line" at 18Th Street to O'Hare to Shanghai, China....I dream about that trip to this day.

  • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2

    42:40 a guy wearing a pink sweater

  • @NixillShadowFox
    @NixillShadowFox Před rokem +2

    At 20:55, isn't the Loomis Connector the track to the right?

  • @ochsenhaut
    @ochsenhaut Před 7 měsíci

    0:34 54th/cermak
    2:40 cicero
    4:57 kostner
    6:43 pulaski
    8:06 central park
    9:43 kedzie
    11:16 california

  • @kathycampbell6122
    @kathycampbell6122 Před rokem +1

    I'd love to find some history and pictures of the old Cicero station, located on the east side of the street.

  • @MachenLand
    @MachenLand Před rokem

    4:50 when you think someone is on a cell phone..

  • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2

    23:55 a lady wearing pink is on the pink line how ironic

  • @ACEssentialSwag
    @ACEssentialSwag Před 4 lety +3

    Just curious, why are the platforms at the stations so much longer than the trains? It looks like you could fit two trains if you wanted.

    • @Just-PJ
      @Just-PJ Před 4 lety +10

      ACEssentialSwag pink line only runs four cars. Platforms are made for eight car trains.

    • @TCMECH79
      @TCMECH79 Před 3 lety +5

      At certain times of the day it runs six car trains. When it was part of the blue line it ran eight car trains all of the time

  • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2

    22:30 oh the blue line can via the green line to get to forest 🌳 park if the lake street subway is closed

  • @karlpiepenburg3157
    @karlpiepenburg3157 Před 3 lety +2

    I’m curious as to where the old Garfield Park line crossed the “connector” line between the Eisenhower and Lake Street. Was the Garfield Park line located on what is now the Eisenhower right of way, or slightly north?

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson Před 2 lety +2

      The Garfield Park was in the Eisenhower ROW, but a temporary diversion further west was on the south side

  • @akivaplutno
    @akivaplutno Před 3 lety +3

    How come three are no barriers around the tracks ?

    • @paulwilbern1166
      @paulwilbern1166 Před 2 lety +6

      Because that third rail don't discriminate!!!☺if you're a true Chicagoan, you know exactly what I'm talking about!😳#&%×+¿😊Goat.

  • @moishglukovsky
    @moishglukovsky Před 2 lety +2

    Always fascinated by the grade crossings. Is it the only “subway” with such things?

    • @akis3556
      @akis3556 Před 2 lety +3

      We have 3 other lines with grade crossings (Brown, Purple, and Yellow). But I've also wondered if Chicago has the the only system with grade crossings (other than trams, trolleys, light rail).

  • @jg-7780
    @jg-7780 Před 4 lety +2

    There's a glitch at 2:32, where the captions show info about State/Lake street for about a single frame.

    • @CTAConnections
      @CTAConnections  Před 4 lety +5

      Thank you for spotting this. It's been corrected.

  • @litlgrey
    @litlgrey Před 3 lety +2

    There's just something about an urban grade crossing... New York City eliminated all the ones it had many MANY years ago.

  • @jg-7780
    @jg-7780 Před 4 lety +3

    22:40 Are the captions supposed to say "bridge," or does 'bride' have more definitions than I thought? (see captions)

    • @michaelbrinkers1145
      @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety

      A bride is a bridge because of the high costs of maintenance. Also, a wide bride, like a wide bridge, promises the bridegroom (or bridgegroom) a path to new experiences/horizons, hopefully erotic, but often, as in my case, toxic. So beware..beware!!!!

  • @SydeLeaderRay
    @SydeLeaderRay Před 4 lety +4

    I wonder why the operator was using the whistle so many times while entering Cicero at the beginning? Is it because someone was too close to the edge of the platform? I don't see anyone that close. Crossing the grade crossing is of course understandable.
    Edit: Nevermind I see it now! Someone was on the grade crossing tracks ahead.

  • @raysmith1026
    @raysmith1026 Před 3 lety +2

    Formerly known as Douglas [B] train

  • @donkarro
    @donkarro Před 3 lety

    What's with sound quality? At different moments sound "clear" and "dirty")

  • @michaelbrinkers1145
    @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety +1

    28:40 Sigh....most of the newer buildings weren't here when I was a boy, bustling with life. What will this all look like, 50 years from now, when I'll be in the ground being eaten?

  • @ismaelquintero394
    @ismaelquintero394 Před 3 lety +2

    I always ride the pink line because os close yo our house

  • @kitsunefaye1661
    @kitsunefaye1661 Před 2 lety

    She sounds like our second youngest of our rolling stock, the "R179".

  • @Vednier
    @Vednier Před 5 měsíci

    2 Questions - 1) at which point if time was demolished Randolf\Wabash? Or its never was part of this ride? 2) Why some trains is 4 railcars and other is 8? Difference in passenger load between lines?

  • @robertw.previdi5450
    @robertw.previdi5450 Před 2 lety

    The connection to the Blue is on the right. Your typed info says on the left??

  • @ronstux4428
    @ronstux4428 Před 4 lety +5

    At 55 minutes, there is a train using the Loomis Ramp. I saw the use of that in the 2014 series. Is this still used for train movements?

    • @747ssabuk
      @747ssabuk Před 4 lety +3

      A few 5000-series trains from the Pink line yard go to help relieve congestion on the Blue line during peak hours. They're the odd ones out in a sea of ancient 2600-series trains that still run on the Blue line.

    • @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102
      @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 Před 4 lety +1

      @@747ssabuk The Blue Line is now half 2600 series and half 3200 series, having swapped some of its fleet with the Orange Line.

    • @thetransitfanofchicago1718
      @thetransitfanofchicago1718 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah it's rare to find a 5000-series train on the Blue line I was at Cicero station for like an hour at 4PM when three 8-car sets went by headed east

    • @TCMECH79
      @TCMECH79 Před 3 lety +1

      The brown, orange and blue lines have yet to incorporate the 5000 series car into service. The 2600 and 3200 series cars have space for luggage

  • @wiiu2472
    @wiiu2472 Před 2 lety +1

    16:35 music to my ears

  • @robfriedrich2822
    @robfriedrich2822 Před 3 lety

    In Germany elevated trains like this counts as tram before the law. How is it in Chicago? Is it a railway or more a tram with independent tracks?

    • @frederickschulkind8431
      @frederickschulkind8431 Před 6 měsíci +1

      The word "tram" doesn't really exist in the United States. The name for such a system is "heavy rail". Systems that run on streets and surface and do not have raised platforms are light rail, older names being "trolley" or "streetcar." The terms do not have anything to do with the actual weight of the rails.

  • @litlgrey
    @litlgrey Před 3 lety +1

    22:41 is "bride" in the captioning a typo for "bridge"?

  • @huskyjerk
    @huskyjerk Před 2 lety +1

    Where is the stop near Wrigley Field? And is it on this video?

    • @akis3556
      @akis3556 Před 2 lety +5

      Wrong line. That's Red and Purple lines.

    • @huskyjerk
      @huskyjerk Před 2 lety +1

      @@akis3556 Thanks, Aki

  • @rohant
    @rohant Před 2 lety +2

    30:09 intersection!

    • @catazat
      @catazat Před 2 lety +3

      Busiest in the world

  • @17z483
    @17z483 Před 3 lety +1

    CTA: August 1, 2009

  • @MrJimheeren
    @MrJimheeren Před rokem

    Is it just me or could the CTA run longer trains them just the six cars they run now. Seems quite busy

  • @cordellellis4585
    @cordellellis4585 Před 4 lety +2

    Wtf the red line is doing up there in the loop tracks

    • @michaelbrinkers1145
      @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety

      I hear on the news, almost weekly, about some mentally challenged bozos, wandering on the red line subway tracks, causing the CTA to divert the red line operations between Fullerton and Chinatown, to the brown line, elevated tracks. "People are Strange" (The Doors, 1967)

    • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2
      @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Před rokem +1

      During weekends and over night hours the red line occasionally goes via the loop 🔁 to rossavelt upper level via the brown and orange line and only does half of the loop 🔁,the blue line almost never uses the loop 🔁,because there isn’t a connection to lake street subway,so as a result the blue would be split in half and do a full loop 🔁 and return to forest 🌳 park,this happens when the lake street subway is closed,the same if the state street subway is closed,after rossavelt it splits from the orange 🍊 and green lines and returns to the regular route to Dan Ryan

  • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2

    Can the blue line go via the pink line via the loop 🔁

  • @PRHILL9696
    @PRHILL9696 Před 4 lety +8

    Ask them why the el which this city was once so proud of is now being covered up? First in uptown they put those walls on the sides covering it up and changing how it looks and that was a famous stretch shown on Hill Street Blues for years. Now they are doing the same in Lakeview with the new flyover putting those walls up covering up that cool view we have had all these years!
    And I read they could have done double decker tracks there like New York has which would have looked so cool, but instead they are going with the walls again once again ruining the look! Sad to see something we were once so proud of being covered up. New York beats us again!

  • @alderusdmc
    @alderusdmc Před 4 lety

    22:40 (see captions) The bride in the distance? Who's getting married?

  • @lbbutant
    @lbbutant Před 4 lety +1

    what was the point of this line? no stations added or new service areas.

    • @metropod
      @metropod Před 4 lety +10

      Well, for starters:
      It causes a net service Increase on the Congress section of the Blue line without having to run more trains on the rest of the line.

    • @lbbutant
      @lbbutant Před 4 lety +1

      thanks for the info. never realized there was such a demand on the blue line out west. of course i havent lived there in 25 years.

  • @89Ayten
    @89Ayten Před 4 lety +13

    On grade metros service. NYC would never.

    • @sonicboy678
      @sonicboy678 Před 3 lety +1

      We actually had grade crossings involving current subway lines, though all public grade crossings within the system were eliminated years ago. Certain portions of the system actually _aren't_ grade-separated, but barrier-separated.
      (The railroads are a different story, though none of those grade crossings are in particularly busy areas.)

  • @michaelbrinkers1145
    @michaelbrinkers1145 Před 3 lety +1

    33:38 And it was at this point, in 1977, where about 8 innocents lost their lives, when the last 2 cars of a northbound train (opposite track), jumped the rails. Railway to Heaven.