Darn Americans and their incessant need to ring a continuous bell even in rail yards. Meanwhile in the rest of the world everyone is intelligent enough to know to avoid rail tracks.
I can scarcely believe what I see here: in residential Michigan City a ONE-TRACK line runs down the MIDDLE of the STREETS! I can only guess at the annoyance of the neighborhoods about the noise-pollution factor...JAT
At 22:20 is the old access road and parking lot for Tremont, replaced by Dune Park one mile west. It was a ground level flag stop. Told the conductor you wanted to get off at Tremont and he'd tell the motorman to stop. To be picked up you waved your arms. I lived 100 yards past this stop in 1971-1974.
Much changed from when I last rode the South Shore some 60 years ago. All the stations are vastly improved, however I did recognize various landmarks around Kensington, good to know aome rhings don't change.
16:26 Immediately east of the tracks was the site of Illinois Central (the railroad) Hospital, where I was born. The site is now occupied by a U. of Chicago pre-school. Thanks for the unexpected memory!
7:53 While it's not obvious, lineside signals and equipment between here and Everett have been relocated far from the tracks so very wide Boeing containers could be transported to its Everett plant (note pier here where the offloading was moved). These extra wide container trains ran only at night with no trains allowed on the other track. The track (8:14) from here up Japanese Gulch to the Boeing plant is the steepest RR grade in the country--over 5 percent--as locos push loads up the hill rather than tow them.
We are from Affton Missouri a suburb of St Louis and one time we took a trip to the Wisconsin Dells I remember sitting in that parking lot and watching a train go across that bridge right in downtown area that was a interesting trip
One thing I would like to say to you I'm sure you don't realize how your wonderful video help me to see country that I'm not familiar with you give entertainment to people snapshot of America thank you
This is great. I always wondered how the South Shore runs through Miller, IN at 6:07. It takes the old Lake Shore and Michigan Southern right of way. Thanks for this video. Better than maps!
It was important if you were riding all the way to South Bend that you be in the first car. I experienced a panicky couple who realized the first car was split off from the rest of the train at the Michigan City yard and they had to run down the tracks to catch it.
John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
Amtrak y/et Metra Electric use the same tracks but not the same depot. this video did a bad job of showing how amtrack goes from Union Station to Metra Electric Tracks!
Maybe one day the electric line might be extended further south I hope. Also I wish METRA would electrify all of its lines just like SEPTA did in Philadelphia!
