Chicago Rail Center 1970's Film No. 173 Color Sound Nick Muff
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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Miss the old Chicago Northwestern Terminal so much!!
Haha Back in the Navy in 1981 we used to take Chicago North Western from Great Lakes Naval Base to downtown Chicago and man we would get wrecked! 😂😂
One of the best parts of this memeriable video is not annoying music. The sights & sounds of the day is more than enough. Thank you for your video.
Wow... Chicago was railroad heaven.
Still is
This is iconic.
Thanks for posting this video! Was that an Amtrak turboliner?! WOW! THIS IS an incredible video! This gives us model railroaders an insight on the equipment that was used back then to replicate on a layout! Again, thanks for posting this!
It was nice to see the C&NW downtown train shed when the original station was still there. The train shed is still there but the classic station was torn down and replaced by the glass skyscraper "Ogilvie Transporation Center". I had gone down to that station many times growing up to watch trains. I would ride the "L" from Oak Park and get off at Clinton. And then walk south down Clinton until you came to a seldom used door. I went in the door and up a flight of stairs (the tracks were one flight up above street level) and you pop up at the west side of the train shed. Sometimes right next to an idling diesel locomotive. From there, I would go through doors into the station head house. One time I did this, all of the doors to the station head house seemed covered over with businesses like food stands and newspaper stands. This just "didn't compute" with me. I tried to find a way into the station from the train shed but couldn't. Finally, I exited a door on the east side of the train shed to walk around to the station on the outside, and that's when I saw a giant hole in the ground where the station had been demolished. One detail about the train shed that you can just barely make out in the videos are the extensions added to the bottom of the supports. They had to raise the entire roof of the train shed to accommodate the taller bilevel commuter cars.
Miss the old terminal so much myself!
I remember hearing the old C&NW engine depart from several blocks away in my bedroom before I went to sleep. I will never forget it.
A grim day during a grim era, but I'm so glad this footage was made. I was a HS student in Chicago during this exact time frame, coming of age in my ability to get around, my photography and my general sensibilities of the passing scene. Railroads seemed to almost everyone back then to be total dinosaurs, butts of jokes, etc. but the industry got strong again eventually, even though we lost so much color, so many routes, towers, spurs, etc. I love everything about this film, even the gray day and the grime.
Lasalle street station helps to really nail down the year. If I had to guess it's 77 going by the RTA's F40ph's seem to all be concentrated on Rock Island property with the Caponeliners still in service with none of the new Budd sets seen.
Considering how unified the AMTRAK paint looks I'd have to agree.
I agree; winter of 77-78. There were F40PHs already in use on the RI, but since the old cars were still in service too some of the F40PHs were used temporarily on the C&NW. By 1978 new RTA bilevels were being delivered and those F40PHs moved over the RI and the RI E units were stored.
Nice seeing the few clips of the mail cars being pulled from the mail terminal under the post office. I worked the mail terminal during the last years of Amtrak mail service. David Gunn’s and Amtrak’s biggest blunder was canceling the mail contracts with the USPS.
Fantastic footage. Especially the original sound. 😎
Great collection of footage.
That took a lot of time and dedication. Thank you.
Thank you for your INCREDIBLE WORK!
I remember, pre-Amtrak, when we would go to the various stations in Chicago. They were like railway museums, with so many train companies with their own car styles, locos, and paint schemes. So bland nowdays.
Thank you, Nick.
Some good work put in here 😊
GREAT VÍDEO!!!
I miss the E and F units.
Amazing footage!! The sights of railroads in the past are always one thing, but the sounds are a whole different level.
Also, I was frantically trying to track down the location of the shot at 11:03. Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I'd been at that same crossing in recent years on a trip to Chicago, but I doubted myself on it. Turns out I was right, and it's on Canal St. It just struck me as odd that there was an at-grade crossing in downtown Chicago when I crossed there, but I assumed there were probably several more at the time of the video and the one seen here was probably somewhere else. As of 2021, it looks like the Cassidy Tire building in the background is still standing and doing good business. There's still quite a bit of crossing equipment there and even a mechanical bell still on one of the signals as of the 2021 shot.
Edit: Comments That Aged Poorly. Street View is outdated and a high rise has been built where Cassidy was in the past few years. There's pretty much nothing historic left in that spot.
Wow.
Chicago is the railroad capital of the country. We even have the last electric interurban. the Southshore line.
👍👍👍👍 love this!!
You can’t convince me that some of those Metra passenger cars aren’t still in use today!
Sweet!
Don't think I ever noticed a Geep with its steam-generator active!
I didn’t know Amtrak had gallery coaches
Yes they did, they are ex-CNW. They were on the Rock Island as a lease and at one time the CNW was also leasing cars to the Rock Island. You could see Rock Island E’s and F’s pulling bilevels painted in RI, Amtrak, and CNW.
Nice footage, but in your title, I think you obviously meant "1970s" instead of what's there.
Feel bad for those engineers who forgot to hook up. Just imagine how embarrassing it must have been when they made their 1st stop.
Memories!!
Got cold just watching video.
Im in New Zealand and we dont have anything of this size here.also narrow gauge track so no big locos as usa. Government closed our rail building plants.now our locos are made in China.lots of break downs etc.
Keep well.
Is there a Chicago Rail Center 1970's Film No. 1 to 172? LoL
The Omen part two train location, etc?
Do Roosevelt Rd - 1977
1:35 ain't that 9912?
Sure is... several years before the incident of course, but still always chilling to see that unit
That locomotive still exists…
1977?
Can you please edit the title ?
What the hell is 1907's and 173 ?
The 1970s not 1907s