Watching these train vids from Chicago is mind blowin!! I'm from the UK and have never visited the state's, now I've seen parts of Chicago.... I wanna go 😆 great vids 🚈🚈
it's never been anything else they just gotta record new announcements I was born in 1990 and nobody I know or ever knew ever refers to the Skokie Swift as the Yellow Line
deckerjr growing up in Evanston in the late 1990s and early 2000s I remember the catenary in Skokie lol.....it would be the first "light rail" line I'd ever come across though technically not such
I remember riding this when it still ran off the catenary. This was probably about 2003. After full conversion to the third rail, the last remaining use of these old catenary structures were for remaining ComEd powerlines that were finally removed by 2019 and perhaps rerouted. Any remaining catenary structures for this now are just relics.
The Yellow line is all that is left of an old Interurban line called the "Chicago, North Shore, and Milwaukee". It was cut back to Skokie in 1963 and was split at Howard which I think was a stupid thing to do. At least what's left of the old interurban line is a bike path. But the trail only starts at Golf. Part of it does parallel the track to Dempster Street.
Had Illinois and Wisconsin been able to get together on a financing plan, the entire North Shore Line could have been saved. The South Shore Line was saved by government action.
You may have something here! Platform lengthening would need to happen in Skokie but that is a great idea. The only thing is, now that it's set in stone the Red Line will be extended to Far Southside this make the Red Line long as it is.
Was there long before CTA existed, the CTA was formed from independent lines throughout. Many no longer in operation and some shorter than past. Only few stops on Skokie Swift. Is populated area even if appears in middle of nowhere
