NS' Chicago Line: A Railroad Superhighway Part 3
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- Опубліковано 19 жов 2024
- PORTER, INDIANA - PART 3 OF 3
The Norfolk Southern Chicago Line is a railroad with an esteemed past and exceptionally bright future. Since it was built for New York Central predecessors, it has been one of the nation's most important corridors, funneling traffic into an out of Chicago towards the eastern seaboard.
Always at least double track, and with over a dozen miles of triple track added in the last few years, growth continues for this railroad of giants. We'll take a look in this series of the entire line across Indiana, from Butler to the Chicago River.
Don't forget to check out the other parts to this series!
Part 1: Butler to Elkhart: • NS' Chicago Line: A Ra...
Part 2: Elkhart to Porter: • NS' Chicago Line: A Ra...
Part 3: Porter to Chicago: • NS' Chicago Line: A Ra...
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Videography Equipment:
Primary: Sony FDR-AX53 4K Camcorder
Secondary: Sony HDR-PJ790V HD Camcorder
Aerial Platform: DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Drone
Radio Scanner: Uniden Bearcat BC125AT
Edited with: Cyberlink PowerDirector 16
Created by Alex Christmas. Copyright 2018, as the Thornapple River Rail Series, All Rights Reserved
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You are by far my favorite railfanning UA-camr! Been binge watching this series for the last few hours & here I am now haha. Keep up the awesome content sir!
Excellent series: entertaining and informative. Annotated Google maps are a nice touch.
very informative, great job and time spent to present a great video Nice areal footage
My favorite part of series, because I live in Chicago and rail fan this area. Great work!!
I totally appreciate the work you've put into your videos. The information and narration you've added is tremendous, keep up the great work.
In my late teens I worked at Newcastle's B H P , in the Blast furnace dept ( Cleaning the Tressels and the Ladle House ,, The ladle house was a great place to work , Ladle wagons were called , "Torpedos or Bottles" and carryied molten steel and with the same axel configuration as the American Bottles , the gross tonnage was 200 tons !
B H P is Long gone now and housing and light industrial now takes pride of place !
Loved your Chicago Line Series. Excellent video as usual. I look forward to watching your future videos.
tahir
Another wonderful presentation Alex! Lots of great info and action in every part of the series.
I'm a rail enthusiast from the UK and I was was never interested in US stuff because I thought it was boring. You've proved me very wrong, it looks awesome! I love your videos 👌
I like the aerial shots and the schematic diagrams of the yards and control points. Another well planned video and narration is so important in viewing trains. Thanks for sharing it.
Hello again
Outstanding, AGAIN!!! Alex, I think this is the BEST Rail channel here on UA-cam, keep up the great work, I’ve could watch another 2 hours easily. Excellent job, sir!!!!!! Thanks again
Great video. The commentary, maps and aerial shots add so much.
Just Fabulous. This is an outstanding production.
Another great video. So glad I found your channel.
Welcome aboard!
Woohoo another Chicago line video! Great video man keep up the excellent work!
Love this series (and your channel!) please keep it up!
I like those horns from the South Shore Line. America's last interurban is a mighty fine road and it has a chance to remain that way for many more years to come.
Great production - love the shots, drone footage and the informative narration. Well done!
NS horns are always jacked up, great video though, lots of places i would like to visit
I like the parking area at MP 488.
You can nose right up to the tracks and see in either direction for a long ways
Great video series
Always excellent stuff Alex! Bravo!!!
Great video and great catches so so very cool!!! So many trains!!!
Top stuff! I really enjoyed the videos in this series.
1 day on a very cold chicago december 26th afternoon, we caught a CR transfer from CNW wood yard to elkhart. It was stopped at mccook/la grange on the IHB.
We walked down to the head end, the conductor asked if we "had ever been up in one of these"? Of course we said no. After some IHB switchers went by the train started to move,,,after some instruction on how to get off moving equipment, we disembarked at the grade crossing,,,about 100 yards or so. The power was 4 black PC/CR F units(actually 3 F7s and 1 FP 7).
the year 1977. somewhere in the garage is some paperwork that the crew gave us about the train(form 19).F7 no. 1693. this transfer would have taken the route in this video.
Good to see those GP60s, though when they were new, I saw them on RoadRailers.
Like the drone work in combo with the trackside cam
Great series thank you,Roy from downunder
Norfolk Southern's Great Steel Fleet hauling the 21st Century Limited and many more intermodal trains from Chicago to New York. How cool is that? The New York Central Railroad never really did go away. Only the name of the railroad has changed to Norfolk Southern from Chicago to Cleveland and CSX from Cleveland and Buffalo to New York. And all of the Water Level Route in between.
Awesome videos! Have you ever railfanned the NS Chicago Line between Toledo and Cleveland?
Always enjoy your series,my friend! Ever think about getting into the DVD sells ? Your videos are quality and interesting and I believe they would sell. On the other hand,its also great to be able to watch,free of charge. Either way,thanks for sharing!!
DVD sales take a lot of time investment, and you really don't get much in return per copy. So much easier to just throw one of these online - making you only shoot and edit - and then forever earn a pretty decent rate of return from UA-cam Adsense.
I've said it before and it's worth saying again, that the economics of this works in such a way that there is an exploding amount of content online in a variety of subjects for free - except for the occasional ad for you to watch.
So I don't plan any DVD sales. I get enough return via UA-cam to at least break even on development costs!
Good drone and moon coverage.
I find it cool that NS is still using the Conrail Blue and White signs on their Control Points, even though Conrail has been gone for almost 20 years.
Awesome Video!!
great video love it
Awesome video thank you
Excelente vídeo. Congratulation.
Man I love the Chicago Line
As a kid I remember the chant Engine engine number nine. Going down Chicago line. If the train goes off the track. Do you want your money back?
terry boyer that's actually pretty catchy. I'll have to remember this.
It's just what kids did before video games.
@terry boyer Ok boomer
LIKE IT
Like the segment at 8:30 showing how flexible is the rail destined to be CWR.
There's a reason it is called ribbon rail!
38:08 Current personal record for engines spotted at 6 ! I wonder how many of them are doing work and where they're going.
I love your work and videos. I live in Chesterton so if you ever want to meet up and Railfan contact me and we will work it out. Again love your work!
I've always wondered how they get that welded rail around a curve but apparently it works just fine.
Is there any way I can purchase all 3 parts of this series on DVD? I model NS in N scale with a specific interest in this part of the NS system.
Somebody from Norfolk Southern's maintenance department fix that sag in the track at 21:50. Especially with those tankers carrying a variety of chemicals.
46:05 if you look closely, actually only one out of four of those cars have 12 axles, others have only 10 axles.
Rather amazed you filmed from the former Porter Tower triangle. That is an arrest location waiting to happen.
You can shoot there if you stay on the shoulder of the road. I usually park on that alley in the SE quadrant of the Chicago Line crossing then loiter on the sidewalk along the road. That's public easement and one should have no problems. NS does of course have problems with parking beyond the road, as they should.
Can you do a video on the NS Chicago District/Fort Wayne line?
Do you know what the max grade percentage is, where it starts, and where it ends on the Chicago Line? I'm building it in Trainz, and since I'm trying to make it realistic it would be nice to know. Thanks in advance!
Ruling grade EB through Indiana is Otis Hill. Milepost 470-475 features an average of a 0.5% eastward climb. The rest of the railroad is pretty much flat.
Thornapple River Rail Series thanks alot! I enjoyed the video Z well, and yes, I will rewatxh these videos and out the knowledge to use. Currently at La Porte IN rn in the trainz build
12:20 Did that BNSF engineer give you the "Shave and a Haircut" horn salute in the middle of its grade crossing?
2:30 Why does the slight underexposure make the drone shots look so... cinematic?
19:30 Send Measured Smiles
Conrail alive and well.
does gthis line go through East Palatine Ohio
Wwhat is rock island route ?
Binge watching Thornapple...
22:05 Lot of smoke that looks suspiciously like hot brake shoes.
It's actually product from the hopper leaking and blowing in the wind. I got a good look as it went by. It was coming from the hopper gate, not the running gear.
once they added 110 mph sectionj the trains started to be on time
The fastest freight speed here is 60 MPH for intermodal.
Yeah too bad that Pennsy line has been abandoned from the north end of Gary on up to where it once paralleled the NYC.
Does Chicago go to Pittsburgh line pa
NS' portion of the Chicago Line ends where CSX ownership begins in Cleveland. East of there I'm not exactly sure but I know somewhere in there a lot of traffic ends up enroute to Altoona.
Did you know that Gary, Indiana, was the birthplace of Michael Jackson?
skyway is no longer owned by the city. it was sold to a private company and now charge 7 dollars per toll 🥴
Hey we should meet up in Hammond tho. I live like 30 miles south of there
3rd world rail system.. Still good work.
Actually for its purpose, freight its one of the advanced lines out there. Norfolk southern has pioneered numerous innovations to both the physical rails and the business models thay go along with them....but let me guess? Its not advanced because you didn't see a bullet train
American freight railways are the best in the world. Passenger is garbage though
@Susan Loughlin Got em