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I also made a Video about the E Units from Pentrex and it’s better to have a commuter train with multiple passenger cars and add more hours and make it run 7 days a week not 5 days a week. It should also run every 20 minutes instead of every 45 minutes because it will help our transit become more useful and reliable again.

E Unit Locomotives Reminds me of Vancouver Washington because BN and BNSF owns most of the class 1 mainline railroad tracks In Washington State and helped reopened the Line over Stevens pass in 1996.

1960 first year of cab cars

I’m not a huge fan of the executive liveries, only the green livery impresses me.

They did restore the Nebraska zephyr, and it’s in perfect shape right now at the Illinois railway museum

The first horn sounds better then the second one.

@bigshouldersrails1318 Thanks for this video! Now that I know why the Chicago North Western ran left-handed, I'm curious why other there weren't many other railroads who ended up doing the same. Surely other railroads built their stations on the left-hand side of the track. Did they mostly opt to rebuild or move their station buildings/platforms/track?

2:04 9907 showed there and is now abandoned as it rests peacefully in pretty bad shape as it had graffiti and dust all over it. (Abandoned in Bensenville Illinois)

used to travel from Kenosha WI to downtown Chicago every summer. It used to travel up to Racine but they stopped doing that(since I lived in Racine) but no problem. eventually became METRA with cab cars but not like the green and yellow that I loved!

These are the engines I grew up seeing. Always loved the streamlined looks.

9912?

Nice shot. Love those Chargers

I grew up watching these trains from Downers Grove....

WOAH these guys made over 400 KN tractive on startup. DAAAAAAMN Theres a good reason I put these things in my North American Addon Set for openTTD. I love heavy fast commuters.

Did anyone see the video of 9912

C&NW's first prototype cab car was #151, which still operates regularly at IRM.

Nice rev up!

Can please you talk about Metra's Highliner cars?

The EMD E & F units. Someone should have told the railroad people that as long as the locomotives are maintained and modified for changing times, they can last forever.

Beautiful, beautiful locomotives.

Man,I’d love to have my name on a Locomotive.

Edwin S Putz 😂. God has a sense of humor.

"ac generator replaced a steam generator" uh, buddy, I think youre a bit off there. Steam generators are WHY they used these for so long. You are confusing the generator used for motive power with the steam generator these things used for in-car passenger heating. There were some F40 units that had steam generators for this very reason but Amtrak units were always at notch 8 when they were just sitting at a station in order to generate power for the whole train, including electric heat. Steam wasn't for power. Genius.

What happened to Metra F40C unit 604 after it left Metra???

They look like modified FP45's.

I don't know about the most beloved by railfans yes but O-5s were beautiful engines

There are some urban conspiracy stories around the CNW introduction of the Pullman/St Louis gallery cars. When it was known politically that the Congress Expressway was going to be extended, they were going to have to tear down the elevated Garfield Park line. This was going to cutoff a heavily used (but financially weak) west suburban interurban (Chicago, Aurora & Elgin) from reaching their station on Wells. This was preferred by then suburbanites due to its speed and availability over the slow, smoke choked steam driven suburban service from the CNW. "Reportedly" Hizzoner (Mayor Daley) went to the president of the CNW to talk to him about it. CNW said they would invest in the gallery cars, but only if you get rid of the interurbans so it can be profitable by pushing the customers over to us since they ran parallel. It just so happened another (weak) interurban ran parallel to the CNW north line as well. As the work on the Congress Expressway started, the newly formed entity called the CTA (the city took over all the transit and bus lines in Chicago) became hostile to the interurban's and while accommodation was attempted, the Mayor had no patience to deal with a weak railroad. CNW started their gallery car service and gradually customers moved over after losing their one way ride. The CA&E finally shut down (after several court hearings and stays) and left people stranded in the Loop. But lets face it, the CNW could afford to be "innovative" because they had political support. (some might say interference). And the CNW was not very wealthy at the time.

On most (but not all) modern locomotives, there is a control option to run "left handed" on the display. This is in the event the engine should run on UP/CNW rails as the lead engine. Now that the option is more common, it is why you see more foreign power on UP rails out of Chicago.

With tomorrow's Bears & Packers game, gotta qonder why the C&NW chose yellow & green.

I was fortunate enough to be able to see these locomotives in the late 80s and early 90s throughout the Union Station facilities. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

This is just a better SDP40F ngl

Great program! I ran the BN E units on the East End. 9905 was the fastest of the fleet and 9925 was the slowest. See more BN E unit action on our East End Productions Archive channel.

Thanks for sharing this informative video

Nice catch of the air horn used on BN's E9s at 3:02. Thanks for sharing!

excellent video!

I wanna see a CNW F59PHI

I wanna see the Burlington Northern F40PHM

I wanna see the CNW F59PHI

Fun fact all of the CB&Q's E-8/9s also pulled all of their long distance passenger trains I.E. the Zeyphrs as they were rotated in and out of the commuter pool. I was told this was so they could run at high speed for longer distances so as to blow the soot out. The E-5s such as shown at IRM which is why it's under wires and the E-7s weren't as far as I know but I don't know the reason why.

I just realized that 9912, the one that hit Mary, is actually preserved, spooky is it?

Metra f40c has p

I think Metra should keep at least one or two of these old locomotives and bring them out for fan trips

5:05 #9912 😐🙄

Great video. Thank you very much for showing it!

You know what would be cool if Metra had a Burlington Northern heritage unit.

Can you put me in touch with Dave Daruszka, the photographer? You used a shot of the old CNW Erie St. Coach Yard credited to him and was wondering if he had any more photos of Erie St. Thanks.

Hopefully the last 2 F40c’s will end up at the Illinois railway museum and cosmetically restored to their original numbers and paint.

Why were the Passenger trains given the name Dinkys ? Where did it come from?

thanks!

The main reason that Ms. Wotyla was hit was at that time, the BN did NOT adhere to GCOR rule 630. I saw the unedited version of that accident and it is NOT pretty. Rule 630 states that when a train is standing in a station that an oncoming train cannot enter that station other than at restricted speed unless crossing protection (other than automatic crossing gates/warnings) for the approaching train is provided. There was another commuter train standing in the Fairview Ave. station. On the CNW/UP rule 630 is strictly observed but NOT on the BN or BNSF. I will wager that there are more pedestrian incidents on the BNSF's single commuter line to Aurora than ALL 3 of the UP's commuter lines! Why the BN/BNSF refuses to strictly enforce rule 630 can only be answered by its legal department.