Trains of Chicago - April 6 1992
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- A day trip to see trains in and around Chicago.
1. A look at the South Shore Shops from the Roeske ave bridge in Michigan City.
2. An eastbound South Shore train passing through Michigan City. First seen at Willard & 10th & then at Lafayette & 11th.
3. Following a westbound South Shore train through Michigan City on 11th & 10th avenues.
4. Pacing the westbound along US 12 west from Beverly Shores.
5. The westbound South Shore departing the Dune Park station.
6. An eastbound Conrail loco & caboose near Ogden Dunes.
7. An eastbound Conrail freight at Ogden Dunes.
8. A South Shore train heads east at Wagner siding west of Ogden Dunes.
9. Amtrak 351 westbound at Ogden Dunes.
10. Burlington Northern power on a westbound Conrail train at Ogden Dunes.
11. An eastbound Conrail coal train sitting west of Ogden Dunes.
12. Amtrak train 317 northbound at Hegwisch.
13. An eastbound South Shore crossing the Calumet River along 130th st.
14. NRE's Hegwisch facility.
15. An IHB train near Hegwisch.
16. Amtrak #4, the eastbound Southwest Chief on the Santa Fe at McCook.
17. Pielet Brothers scrap yard at McCook.
18. A Chessie geep on the head of a southbound Amtrak train at 21st street.
19. Amtrak train 22 north at 21st street.
20. Amtrak #4 at 21st street.
21. A Metra commuter & Amtrak 4 backing into Union Station, seen from the Polk st bridge.
22. Inside Chicago Union Station.
23. Outbound Metra & inbound Amtraks at Polk st.
24. A westbound Metra at the Highlands station.
25. An eastbound BN intermodal at the Highlands
26. Amtrak 347 at the Highlands.
27. A pair of westbound Metras from the bridge at the Highlands station.
28. An eastbound Metra at the Highlands Station.
29. A westbound BN intermodal train at Highlands.
30. A westbound Metra at the main Hinsdale station.
31. Outbound Metra trains on the CNW & Milwaukee lines, seen at Clinton st.
32. A southbound CTA train along the Dan Ryan Expressway.
33. A westbound South Shore train at Burns Harbor.
34. An eastbound South Shore freight at Dune Park & Beverly Shores.
35. Pacing the eastbound through Michigan City on 10th & 11th avenues to the Shops.
36. Following an eastbound South Shore passenger train along 11th ave.
37. A westbound South Shore train ending its run at the Shops. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Hi Dan, that was brilliant, especially the South Shore action. I have a couple of Athearn B/Box GP38-2s decorated in CSS yellow, that I picked-up off eBay UK, so it was great to see some real ones at work.
I wish I saw these trains in the 90's!
Awesome Catches In The 90's
12:47 - 12:50 Wow, Phase II (hastily applied over the Amtrak chevron logos XD) in 1992.
Back in 1991, just a year before, I took the train from Lansing to Chicago, to see my aunt. She lived a few houses away from the BRC/ NS 75th street rail corridor. Heading out on the Amtrak back to Lansing, near the Amtrak Yard, and the Grand Trunk main line crossing 79th street near Hayford Junction, were the first places I saw the new railroad crossing lights that are common today. Those lights looked huge at the time!!
My grandmother's house is barely visible in that shot at 17:27 (the house at the corner of Chicago Avenue and County Line). All through the 90s as a lad I'd just stroll up to Highlands and watch trains for hours.
6:59 Interesting consist - Ex-Metroliner cab car, followed by an Amfleet 1 coach, then followed by 2 ex-Metroliner cabs paired together... not usual, I imagine, to see ex-metroliner cab cars put together as if they were married pairs, like when the Metroliners were originally delivered to the Penn Central.
The two paired together are actually “Michigan Coaches” which were Metroliners that had their cabs removed to turn them into regular trailer coaches. You didn’t often see them paired together like that though.
Dude! Epic! I love this old footage!
Thanks. That was a fun day.
Dan Cluley I bet u wish you could repeat that day again
Some really awesome footage there! I had an aunt the lived in Beverly Shores through the 1990s and a lot of familiar places there. We always went there for Thanksgiving so there was not a lot of freight rail traffic, when we were there. Michigan City was an interesting place to day the least!
That's one of my favorite places. Was very glad to see them restore the depot in the late '90s.
Yes sir, that is a sharp little Depot! Have not been down there for at least 5 years, as my aunt moved to Hawaii. To correct my previous comment- to say the least, not day the least, LOL!
Dan Cluley any metra electric video's available?
Great video!
Thanks
28 years ago
In the first part of his video, what street is that train going down? I from the South Side and I don't remembers this street at all or is this South Bend? Where I grew up the South Shore ran along Lake Shore Drive. The worst accident they had was right off 31st by Michael Reese Hospital. I grew up on 33rd street a block from the Illinois Central tracks which was used by the South Shore train.
DennyDreadBassMan
The street running is in Michigan City Indiana. I put more details about all the locations in the video description. I've seen pictures of that south side wreck in the '70s.
8:23 just amazing
The wonderful sight of a smooth camshaft and valvetrain.
Must have been kind of weird pulling up to a stoplight next to a you know...train! Do they still do this street running?
Weird & Cool. Yes, they still have the street trackage in Michigan City. The South Shore runs about 25 passenger trains on weekdays, and 15-20 on the weekends, plus a handful of freight movements.
Dan Cluley are you from Michigan City? you brought back memories in the Amtrak video went right past my house. I'm surprised I wasn't back the tracks waving at you guys. good stuff keep it up. hope you have some current stuff soon.
Glad you liked it. I'm actually from Mid-Michigan.
Was the part were you were seeing the commuter trains was on the South Shore line correct?
Yes, the beginning & end parts were on the South Shore. The Metra trains in the middle were on the BN
Dan Cluley Thanks, does the south shore railway still exist.
Yes it does. Most of the commuters look the same, but they have added some double deck cars as well.
The freight engines are now orange.
Dan Cluley thanks
Around the same time all this was going on, Grand Trunk use to run steel coil trains through Lansing with Grand Trunk and Chessie yellow or orange South Shore GP 38-2s.
Ok why the hell do you need 5 locomotives on one train.
S word 8:06
SHIT!!! XD
7:15 THAT ENGINE IS ILLUMINATI COMFIRMED
LOL! 😂 They're actually called 'b' units, and they're meant to serve as extra power.