Erie Lackawanna (C&WI) Hammond, Indiana to Chicago 

This video has all the elements of the final days of many roads. Pure gold.

The Track Density in the Hammond area is incredible,also the last great days of Chicago Railroading

such great images of the fallen flags of rail. thank goodness for the individual going out and getting all of these wonderful movies {probably 8-mm} they were so short of a run time over the next generation of VHS cameras with tapes. but very expensive to purchase.

One of these videos/ Films l wish never ended! Thank you so much for sharing the vintage footage!! Brought back memories of my youth…

10:43 South Deering near 114th St. & Torrence Ave. In the shot of the Amtrak (which looks like the Riley), you can see the Wisconsin Steel Plant right behind it (owned by International Harvester). That bridge structure across the tracks carried coke across the Calumet River to Republic Steel. 12:10 Pullman Jct. 15:35 Ford St. Tower (PRR/C&WI) which was between 58th and 59th St. in Englewood. PC train is headed west. This is the PRR line that once connected the Fort Wayne & Bradford Lines (different from the SC&S). 15:53 81st St. Tower I really enjoyed the final shot at Hohman Ave. with a clear view of ED tower atop the bridge. You can see the engineer release his hand from the horn pull cord, too. And just look at all of those crossing watchman towers in Hammond! The very last shot looks like it's at Kouts. Paul just captured the tail end of the chase on his way back to Ohio. A lot of this footage never made it to the Revelation Video. Great film restoration & transfer, as always!

27:52 and onward is such an amazing sequence. The photog is up on the CWI State Line Main looking N/NW back towards 81st St. He scurries down back to a safe position to watch the same train southbound fly over the BRC mains. Present day this same view is attained from the parking lot of the Norfolk Southern dorms. Things look much the same today minus all the fallen flag content. It is quite the busy spot even in modern terms with the NS utilizing the flyover and the Belt using the underpass. He continues to follow the same Erie train down to the lift bridge paralleling Torrence Ave north of 130th St. Surely it was slow going for the Erie and CWI thru Pullman and that allowed our photog to stay a couple steps ahead of the train.

great video bro ❤❤❤❤

Thank you for sharing.👍

Fantastic video. Grew up in Hegewisch and spent hours watching the South Shore and EL at the Torrence Avenue lift bridge. Thanks for sharing and rekindling memories of my youth!

Great video of fallen flags, thanks for sharing, from Germany

Who was the photographer? I'm very happy that he or she took the time and effort to document the EL in its twilight years. And thank you for making this video available for public viewing!

An EL tower operator friend once told me Hammond Drawbridge was the dirtiest place he ever worked at.

Great video! I’m guessing from 1975-1976 era. Thanks so much for sharing this! Dad was a C&O engineer out of Peru 1962-2001. Might see him in Amtrak or Chessie engines. I have several of his switch keys. One from this area says IHB (Indiana Harbor Belt). RIP

Awesome video😮!!!

The sheer variety of motive power in those days was insane... especially, of course, in the central rail hub of the country

Cool video

thankjs 4 my favorite line the big e

It's interesting to see even though the railroad went under the l&n was a very big presence in Chicago in the early 70s Buying up the monon and of course part of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois from Evansville. Although mopac would eventually buy them out I believe the Dalton yard was originally a CE&I that Mopac would eventually take over? For the Louisville & Nashville

Evokes a feeling of meloncholy. Very nice.

That's pretty cool it may not seem like that long ago at times

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Excellent video! Where did EL go from Pullman Jct? Hard to trace right of way. Also 74 th st & 81 st street tower? Thanks !

0:07 There's a video about NKP Berks in the late 1950s that shows that same place

15:37 maybe that Hegewisch line that Pennsy owned?

This is from the Revelation video Erie-Lackawanna West End.

how much of this scene still looks the same?

Who was operating those Southern consists to Chicago? Had to be either BN or MoPac. No direct connection to N&W with the merger several years away.

Where was ford st tower. I cant find a ford st in Englewood

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