CTA's Ride the Rails: Winter Storm - Brown Line Real-time (2021) 

I've watched all the "Ride The Rails" videos, the Brown Line is (I think) the best. Pink line is a pretty close 2nd....

I love the designs of the Brown line from The Belmont Station all the way to The Kimball Station which is the end of the line located in A Neighborhood Called Albany Park. By the way im from The Bronx, New York but I recently visited Chicago and I loved it

@@jaystallztv I'm from The Bronx, too. Used to live next to the 6 Train (like J. Lo.). For now, I'm by the 2 Train by the Allerton Ave. stop (there's a famous hotel in Chicago named the Allerton Hotel [just north of the Loop]).

I would have to agree. As a south sider, I don't ride the brown line too often, but the times that I do, I'm typically glued to the window haha.

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@AXEL KAULBARS Don’t waste your energy responding to him, he is just and idiot who wants to cause drama, let along knowing nothing about cta.

@@mr.b3168 dude chill the fuck out it’s his opinion 😂

Agreed. The Brown line has a certain "coziness" that the other lines lack.

Chicago is an extremely beautiful city, and I'd recommend a visit in the fall or spring.

I agree. "This is Diversey. Doors open on the right at Diversey."

I am sorry, but the announcements get obnoxious after a while, leave them out....you can hear them a little at times when the train conductor has his door open.

I went for the first in 2019. I committed to going every year since. Do visit.

Before you travel, learn where to go, and where you should never go, in the "Windy City" as it's known. (for your safety).

@@jackmorrison7379 True.

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Chicago winters have been incredibly mild in past few decades, and don’t get the NEasters that hit NY area. Places like Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis handle snow removal and storms much better. Though Chicago’s nickname of Windy City has nothing to do with the weather or atmospheric wind, there are times when strong winds in very cold hit you.

do u live in lincoln square

@@wiiu2472 I lived in Lakeview Addison and Marshfield for eight years then lived on Leland and Rockwell for six years before I moved to Michigan. I'm originally from the South side of Chicago.

JMJ that would be something

I request red line at night!!

@@FedeAlbertiok how does one request the red line? Do you mean prefer?

@@MeMe-pj8ve he's...requesting to see a video of the red line at night

@@scj6693 ahhh okay! Thank you and sorry for my ignorant comment.

I spent two wintahs in Northern Maine running a USAF radar site. The mean temp for January was a cool -39 degrees (without the chill factor!). We had a 35 mile drive to the site early each morning, and NEVER missed a day of work, believe it or not! Having REAL snow removal equipment is the answer. You Aussies don't know what you've been missing!!

We've had a pretty rough winter (at this point it wasn't that bad, we got 21+ inches of snow one weekend), and with AWD on my car it wasn't too bad. I turned off traction control by accident once -- don't recommend doing that. Only the alleys (were the parking often is) were really bad since they don't get plowed by the city. Lots of cardboard, floor mats, sand and pushing to get cars out. Also: we got to -22F last winter. Come on down and visit in February sometime :P

Driving in a lot of snow is just something you get accustomed to after a while, especially if you're familiar with your car and can gauge how much traction is available. AWD and snow tires help tremendously, but they're luxuries I've never used in Michigan.

It rarely ever gets down to -4F/-20C here. Our climate is much further south than people realize. What makes it so "cold" for the latitude were at is the central planes of Canada allowing Arctic air to spew down all the way to the gulf of Mexico. This is why Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama get way more snow and cold spells than anywhere in Florida or Georgia, other mid Atlantic states as they have no natural barrier to the constant flow of cold Fronts. Same here in Chicago. (i.e., Texas winter storm crisis of last year) At the same time, our winters _and_ summers are moderated by the adiabatic latent heat sink of Lake Michigan. It is the size of a small sea, and warms Chicago up by anywhere from 10 to sometimes 20 degrees from the surrounding regions. The lake effect stretches out for a significant distance too. That said, our winters are between 20-30F in the dead of winter. When severe polar vortex fronts hit from Canada, only then do we see crazy temps like -4F, and I remember a few years ago we had a record breaking -18F. Whoever is saying -22 is referring to suburbs further out and further north, though still technically part of Chicagoland. We typically experience temperatures like that maybe 1-2, _maybe_ 3-4 nights a year. That was an incredible cold, and I hope to never experience that again. Trust me, 30F is more than cool enough to satisfy the midsummer heat woes. I am currently catching myself longing for winter as this last week we've had 95-100F almost every day and 100 percent humidity. I know though, that the minute winter hits, I'll be begging for summer heat to be back. As for the snow, it varies wildly from year to year and I suspect it cycles and is dependant on the El Nino / La Nina cycles. The "coldness" of our winters here vary wildly too, and I believe the same mechanics are at play that affect that. Note that warmer winters are actually more conducive to snow, and this past winter was no exception - it was much warmer than average and we got absolutely dumped on during the month of February. So yeah, PSA. Chicago is not a frozen tundra like people would have you think. It really annoys me when people say that despite real "winter" only lasting during January and February. People need to go to like Maine or Minnesota or something, or perhaps Winnipeg in Canada / Fairbanks Alaska to experience true cold. Ain't nothing noteworthy about our winters here. If I were to warn you about anything regarding Chicago's weather is the pretty much annual severe heat waves we get with triple digit temps and extreme humidity and the severe weather we get (tornadoes). Chicago's weather is pretty extreme in the sense that its range is incredible. It is a wonderful, world class city. I hope you make a trip to visit here some day. I myself have Australia on the bucket list of places to visit. Oh and one last thing, people who swear by AWD don't know how to drive. I make do with a FWD hatchback just fine, as do millions of others in the region.

=WINTER CHICAGO IS MUCH BETTER THAN WINTER MOSCOW,BTW ......MAYBE WEATHER CONDITIONS THE SAME DURING WINTER,BUT THERE'S NO MOSCOW'S METRO LIKE BROWN LINE ONLY VERY SHORT STUPID EXPERIMENTAL MONORAIL WITH NO PURPOSE

do it com to MFF in december and whit lucky you have snow

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Hehe as a person who lives in Chicago I love taking the train during the winter, it has some great scenery

@@chicagoareacta That would be great

@@chicagoareacta Hopefully so

Hope I can move to Chicago proper once I start living on my own.

Every night for me

Makes for good ASMR.

Video shot in 1968

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=MOSCOW'S METRO IN TERMS OF SIGHTSEEING IS THE WORST,ON CONTRARY...ALL UNDERGROUND .............AUTHORITIES TRIED TO DO SOME RAISED SYSTEM LIKE BROWN LINE BUT THEY GOT ONLY SHORT MONORAIL WHICH TURNED INTO COMPLETE FAILURE AND SERVING ONLY FOR TOURIST PURPOSES =BUT THEIR PLANES ABOUT RAISED SYSTEMS WERE PRETTY MUCH COLOSSAL......BUT FAILED BECAUSE OF MONORAIL ONLY COULD DO A 10MPH AND WAS COMPLETELY STUCK IN SOMEWHAT SNOW AT ALL .........IF THEY'D DO A BROWN LIKE STYLE PROJECT,THEY'D HIT A HUGE SUCCESS,ON THE CONTRARY.....SINCE THERE'S JUST A LOT OF OPEN AREAS WHERE'S NO PROBLEM ABOUT BUILDING SOME BRIDGES =OF COURSE THERE'S SOME TRAMS BUT THEY'RE DYING FAST.........TROLLEY'S DEAD...........BUSES ALSO DEAD.....ONLY SUBWAY WORKS NORMALLY =ALSO THERE'S SOMEWHAT CALLED "CENTRAL DIAMETERS" WHICH SORT OF CHICAGO'S METRA,BUT WITH INTEGRATED BILLING SYSTEM WITH SUBWAY............BUT THEY'RE HITTING ENORMOUS NUMBER OF PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF IT'S ON JUST EXISTING OPEN SURFACE RAILROAD NETWORK........SAME ABOUT "CENTRAL RING" ..............LOTS OF BRIDGES ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED BUT ONLY FOR CARS........ =SO.................IF U WASNT IN MOSCOW AT WINTER,IT'S PRETTY MUCH OKAY SINCE IT IS ONLY ABOUT NERVES.......NOTHING TO SEE REALLY...............IT'S VERY NICE THAT CHICAGO'S L MOSTLY PROVIDING SOMEWHAT TO JUST LOOK AROUND

I really hope so for the brown line considering that it serves popular neighborhoods and is honestly better than the red line. For the purple line, probably not since there’s not much demand with it serving Evanston for most of the time.

15:56 Yeah, but too bad its gonna bankrupt the state to pay for it...just so brown-line northbound passengers (and southbound red-line passengers) can save 2 minutes.

@@michaelbrinkers1145 they wouldn’t do a project like that just for fun. According to the about page, the current junction capacity is 40-44 trains per hour. From data between 2008 to 2014, they project the need for around 60 trains per hour in 2030. Population increase causes a definite need for infrastructure improvement. According to the about page, they are getting funds from many places; however, to my knowledge, none of them are from the state of Illinois. You can find the same information here: www.transitchicago.com/rpm/about

@@abcrtzyn Thanks for the data. It's just that for the 40 years I"ve used the red line (north of Fullertion), ridership is so crowded, and movement so SLOW....and capital improvements, except for station remodeling, never goes to "operation". Track work is incessant. Orange line, blue line (extension to Ohare), Green line (new stations at Damen, McCormick Pl, Morgan)....nothing ever for the north branch of the Red Line!!!!! And the purple line express used to be non-stop from Mdse Mart to Howard. Every other line gets better except the north Red Line!!!!

Awesomeness as always from you guys love to tour Chicago in this unique way All the way from England

Using logic based on the fact that the Pandemic is still ongoing (as of 5/16/2022 as I'm writing this), there may be less riders because of the Pandemic and the snow, which would result in fewer travelers under normal circumstances. Thankfully in Chicago, the CTA never considered reducing train service as any time (unlike my hometown of New York City, which shockingly closed the entire subway system from May 2020 until June 2021).