Friday Railfanning in Blue Island & Homewood, IL (7/22/2022)
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2022
- This was day 9 of the trip and was completely dedicated to railfanning. We had an amazing day in Blue Island and Homewood with tons of action and drowning in good power.
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This one of the best rail cam live out there
That is cool train video. 👍 🚂 🌞
One awesome railfan location,LIVE Trains has a cam location there soon to be live on CZcams
Nice! Sometimes I wish I could catch a heritage unit first train of the day…
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I used to railfans there I miss it!
cool video
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I have been to this exact spot dozens and dozens of times, mostly in the very late 1970s through the very early 1980s when I had a customer in nearby Calumet Park Illinois. Back in those days there was a manned Tower at this location and it was a somewhat more safe location than it is today. I recall vividly many many trains coming through there all day long including BRC and IHB freights. I am retired now and don’t travel nearly as far from home as I did in those days so I haven’t been here in many years but it is good to see that the volume of rail traffic has not diminished at all and perhaps has even increased measurably.
The tower is still there behind all the trees, and IHB runs but what I've heard is very sporadic. BRC though is almost fully contained to their yards now.
@@Conrailcc99 are you referring to the tower I recall being right at the street crossing where the videographer seems to be standing?
@@eolafan100 there's no tower by the sidewalk anymore. I'm not familiar with the area but I think it's the old Grand Trunk tower between all the bridges that is for sure still there as I saw a couple of MOW trucks moving back there. And you can see it a bit through the trees in some of the pictures I took.
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WOW!
Been there to Barr yard on WC train in mid 90's down the old BOCT ...
If you get a chance check out the Illinois Central Gulf line in Monee Illinois. South of Homewood. There the tracks are below grade because of the hill that Monee Illinois is on. The old steamers had trouble to climb the hill. Stand on one of the bridges and face the train going under you. It's a awesome thrill. I used to live along the tracks there for most of my life.
I'm not from Illinois, but whenever I do go back I'll try to check there out.
dang my boi a three hour long video 😂😂👍👍
This is a great location.. Is the single track bridge out of service? I didnt see any use it.
No it's still used or at least was, every bridge was used by at least one train and the Iowa Interstate used the single track to get onto Metra.
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The single track bridge is not used anymore, hasn't been used in decades. All of the two track bridges are still used though
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Thanks, I didn't see any tracks to/ from. A railcam would be awesome but sponsor, hi speed internet etc...
@@Railroadfan5383 Looking back at pictures from that day, yep it's not used...there's no tracks leading to it.
**correction** Metra no longer owns MP36PH-3S. They’ve all been rebuilt to -3C specifications.
Eh, for being from Cleveland where there is nothing resembling Metra, I was close enough.
Call GE junk idc but still the best locomotive in history for me GE wise is the king Dash 8W!
Nah I love GE's, but they're operationally bad after their service life is up and compared to EMD bland past the standard cab C40-9's unless you know what to look for and both of those are why they get a bad rap.
My question is how busy is that rr crossing
The answer is yes, we were only there for a little over four hours and got 21 separate trains including Metra so about five an hour using that logic which two of those are Metra, one each way.
9:04 I wonder what treasures the thieves found in those containers.
How did you know all the symbols?
For Homewood the dispatcher there was helpful, but for Blue Island all the CSX trains called out a mile post around there and the rest were educated guesses if I did give one and Iowa Interstate only runs one set of trains through there so that was helpful as well.
What is the frequency in that area?
No idea, but I found all of them online, so if you search for them you should be able to find them easily
Out of all those Engine's only 6 were Awesome Engine's the rest of those were JUNK Engine's figure out which 6 were the Best. I will give you a clue All 6 of them start with a E the rest of the JUNK started with a G...
There were for sure more than six EMD's, and some of the GE's aren't that bad. I've heard specifically the rebuilt standard cab Dash 8's are pretty good at least compared to the non rebuilds and they for sure have air conditioners which the standard cab EMD's are starting to take on when they go in for major work.
Are you deadening the sound of the wheels crossing the diamond❓ If so, that sucks 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
No, I was at the crossing which isn't near any of the diamonds where it has the usual profound effect compared to other diamonds that I've been to.