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For years that curve you went through across Soldier Field was a close clearance restriction due to a 90 footer clipping an Amtrak train. They recently brought it down to single main and I think constructed a Y to get into union station easier.

5:39 This is the 16th street tower for metra, use to be controlled by IC. Was an older man operating it for my first 20 years working the CN/IC. Most of us are not railfans, but this guy put a smile on your face. Loved his work and very professional. Would always give us a heads up before a popped in a signal so we could snooze.

There's been scattered talk for years about upgrading some of the overall rail links involved in this basic route to provide a more direct transit link between McCormick Place (on Metra Electric) to O'Hare via Union Station. One of the issues would be the motive power involved. There is no available overhead electrification to Union Station and on to O'Hare on most of the trackage involved. And can the Metra Electric rail line also handle diesel locomotives? The trackage would have to be able to dependably support the likely heavier locomotive weight. Anyway, like so many past proposed grand Chicago transit plans, this concept is likely remain....just that. We all know how Chicago no longer works like it once reputedly did.

1. I'd love to know what was going on with the guy in the red at the beginning: "The train has stopped and is whistling to tell me to move, but I'll just stand right here. Oh, there's someone behind me trying to film? I'll get out of the way for HIM." 2. What was the guy saying toward the end, after you were asking about 1003 making a running start? 3. Lol on that 3rd plane: "Wait for me, guys!"

That one bridge stuck in the "up" position has been like that for about 50 years! I used to ride Rock Island (then Metra) into the loop from 1983 till around 2010 and that bridge was up from before that time. I believe it was stated that it would be too costly to repair or remove the stuck bridge so it will probably be that way till it rusts out and collapses.

Cool video. I wish I knew as much about trains as some of yall.

Thank you for disavowing the bad jokes. :)

Wow nice, i like gp7s and gp9s

What reroute do the freight trains that used to use the St Charles Airline Route take?

I can understand why we will never get high speed rail in the U.S. due to its convoluted & outdated infrastructure. Even more surprised we still have passenger rail. 🚂

Would have liked dates of some of the changes, more clear map layouts of the routes being referred to, and a bit of the history of the IC station.

5:53 that intersection at Clark and 15th used to have a ramp up to the railyard level and is where they filmed the iconic Ferrari jump scene in Ferris Buellers Day Off

Hell yeah my home subdivision

Excellent.

Sometimes these 2 cars are not open

0:33 Woah, the steam was breaking off pieces of grass and throwing them into the air! I knew it was hot, but I didn't realize it was that forceful! I also note the usual "lights don't mesh with the camera frame rate properly" thing on the crossing lights on the second clip. And what was up with those rails you were standing between on the third clip? There were ties on some of it, but the rails weren't on them, and they were way too far apart.

Remember it well.

Amtrack doesn't own any track. Anywhere. Go figure. 🙄

Not too uncommon, train 653 and 655 schedule wasn’t that far apart

Which one honked the P5A?

Very informative. Nice video

A grandstand competition: who can hit the platform hotter. I'm glad Metra still believes in making PROPER commuter stops. Stand em up!

Sweet catch dude!

Wow. Amazing catch.

I almost thought that maybe the engineers had seen how close they were and decided to stay together. And then the one train pulled ahead, which ruined that thought. Still impressive, though!

Nice racing engines not at all a coincidence:3

The last time I took that line, we did the back-out to BNSF at Halsted Street; I remember the reversal was in the Halsted Street station.

1:35 You mention water coming out, and I think I see it halfway along the engine. Why do they do that? Isn't the water supposed to stay in the boiler?

Magnificent catches of the trains coming by and pass, I like it 5 stars. Hearing that amazing diesel sound and cars is absolutely crazy. Thumbs up. Keep up the perfect work, Jack, you earned a new subscriber, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.

Does the train itself knows that it is moving backward? If no, what difference will it make if the engine is placed ahead of the coaches to drag it forward in its backward mode?

The inefficiency makes my blood boil. No wonder why ridership is relatively low

That's the track for Amtrak 319/318 and idk if Amtrak 21/22 has it tho. But I've been on Amtrak 319/318!

Why do some trains just stop and block everything for so long?

My toddler always asks to watch trains while we eat lunch, so I was excited to see a new GR video! And she really enjoyed seeing the other toddler in the video. Do you have any way to lessen that awful shrieking noise some of the trains make?

Nice video! New subscriber...

As a Limey, when I visited 12 years ago I couldn't understand why the trains don't have a driver's cab at both ends.

Well done.

5:53 I like the shot of the Metra train from underneath 2816. Very clever angle!

1. Man, that's a lot of cars! 2. I love how on the second shot, the steam really shows how hard the wind is blowing! 3. The car with all the vents says "generator car." Isn't that something the locomotives are supposed to do? 4. Towards the beginning of the river shot, why does it come out from behind the trees and then go back in again?

So cool. I can't wait to see it in KCMO

Why is it called the saint Charles air line and the one in Florida called the seaboard air line .I am a new rail fan.My father worked foe Southern Pacific so my childhood was wonderfully full of trains and I am now seeing how wonderful it was.

In "communist europe" there are control coaches, where the operator can sit and the locomotive is remotely controlled. some modern trains even are bi- directional.

There's a wye by the yard in Chicago that's why they go backwards

Nice video work. Full frame camera?

... and as a European I just wonder, why they just don't use two locomotives for each side, then they wouldn't have to care. But well, this is the USA, when it comes to trains you still operate them as if we have the 1930s with steam

Interesting subject, but needs _far more map integration_ to be comprehensible to anyone not a local of Chicago proper. The window view footage gives a nice human touch but would much benefit from a map inset or overlay, _Indiana Jones_ style perhaps.

I’ll feel like you missed archer heights,aka,pulaski,inbound. I enjoyed the two videos I have views so far! Keep it up man!

Thank you. Last May my sister and i did a sibling trip to Memphis riding on the City of New Orleans. It was dark when we left and i could not figure out how we turned around. Now i know. Thanks

Thanks for the insight on the routes! I live in the Central Station neighborhood and the Amtrak/CN lines run through the east end of our part of the city. Usually they're freight trains but a couple times a day we see Amtrak trains, and I had the feeling one of them was the City of New Orleans.

30+ years ago, Amtrak had a daily train between Decatur and Chicago that ran east on the NS to Tolono then turned north onto the then IC, now CN tracks to Chicago. It was a 3 car bi-level train set that got pushed (rear coach had a control compartment on the upper level) to Chicago and pulled back. Wondering why they don’t just do this on these trains and avoid all the shoving and direction changes OR, since these Charger locos seem to be so troublesome, just put a locomotive on both ends and make it a bi-directional train set? I get the cost of the loco being a factor but I also recall Amtrak converting some old F40’s into control cars several years ago.