After getting kicked out of 16th St Tower I decided to railfan during the rush hour at the Roosevelt Rd bridge just outside of Union Station. Also saw a few private cars on Amtrak trains.
Imagine standing on this bridge back in the 50s/60s, seeing Burlington and Pennsylvania E-Units hailing the Broadway Limited, California Zephyr and Empire Builder/North Coast Limited out on their daily runs
Does make me wonder why it was just sitting there... I would assume there were no passengers on it, but it seems to also be in the way of that other train?
When I was younger went to the Depo to feel the Rush of the trains Fly past loved it.watching the signals change color sometime watched some track maitence loved the smell of the wood from the tracks what a Smell.
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I use to go to 12th Street, Roosevelt bridge with my baby kid, and watched the trains go back and forth to Union Station, especially seeing the heavily use Amtrak EMD SW1500 switcher, but I found the Amtrak passenger yard quite more interesting south on the same bridge, when I am hungry by either going to White Place Grill or Domino Pizza at the strip mall. Mostly, I go to18th Street and watch the train activity at the Amtrak yard, often time I see other long dead passenger cars being toll by Amtrak to Norfolk Southern, or sometime some freight traffic coming from Union Pacific Intermodal yard near Chinatown. Otherwise, when I get hungry, I take my kid to Lawerence Fishery, my kid favorite place over White place Castle Grill. Now, I am disabled, no longer go railroad watching, but did take a few photos as memory. Someday, my kid will be interest in train watching on the 18th Street bridge. Suprising, Amtrak repainted their F40PH and F40PHM-2 to the new color, like MP36PH-3S. Otherwise, I believed Chicago is the only place that one can still see and feel a F40PH (when Amtrak long phase them out) going by, before Metra replace them with MP36PH-3S. And, it is the only city still run the rare F40PHM-2. If one is lucky, one might find a East Corridor electric train hiding at the 18th Street yard.
wow, five private cars on the first Amtrak, almost a many as the Amtrak consist itself. Nice video, I'd love to see the same out of Penn station or Grand central in NYC.
Also a private car on the 2nd train. I sadly didn't get a chance to see them when I took the Amtrak bluewater 365 from Flint to Chicago last month guess they aren't there all the time.
Awesome. Great spot to view tons of station traffic. It was interesting to see someone throwing switches manually so close to the station where traffic is continuous. I wonder what would be the reason that these are not CTC controlled electrically. I always like to observe trackside equipment [a holdover from model railroad days past, I suppose] and so I spotted around 39 minutes in when you maybe were more on the east side of the Roosevelt Rd bridge two grey colored structures spanning a couple of tracks each. They have large reels on the upper parts. Does anyone know the purpose of these ?? Maybe shore power for parked commuter trains ?? Great job; really enjoyed watching.
@@csxrailfanners3000 CSX Railfanners there is a morning, afternoon, evening rush hour I sometimes film the rush hour in Glen Ellyn from 4:30 pm to 6:10
This is statsfying seeing all the trains go to the platform behind the scenes because your usually the one going to the platform and the train is waiting for you
@@scenicdepictionsofchicagolife I think this is a cultural matter: Americans think "oh so many trains" people from Europe ore Japan think "why are running so few trains in a Metropolitan Area with almost 10 Million People?"
@@glx1987 to answer your question...what you see in this video is only a portion of Chicago's commuter train traffic. There are 3 other locations besides the one shown in this video that feature commuter trains leaving the city.
What's with some of the metra sharyo cars and having that bit right of the doors that looks like there's some panels missing? Was there originally a metra logo there?
I love this video! But some of these railroaders incorrectly label the wrong engines. The slanted engine isn't a MP36 but a F-40 PH -2! This engine had a interesting history... In 1993 Metra leased one of them to Amtrak when The ICE (INNER CITY EXPRESS) train from 🇩🇪 Germany went on tour in The United States. It was painted in ICE Train colors/ a.k.a. D.B. RAILWAY IN GERMANY. No scale models have been made of these engines. All The F-40 PH by Bachmann, early Life Like, Walthers, Kato, Mikes Train House but the modified version from Metra has been overlooked / underrated. I love commuter trains and many in North 🇺🇸 America & 🇨🇦 Canada. I plan on modeling Metra in scale models! I thank you for this video & many others in 🎬 action... 🚄👍💕😀🔊🔊
P.S. To KATO U.S.A. INC.:Will you please make these in HO scale, as well as the MP 36. What about Metra commuter cars? It was done in N scale.. Athearn... Stay tuned.... 🚄🚞☺
False the slanted engines are F40PHMs and those engines with ice train are F69PHACs which were owned by Amtrak for bit taken out of service then repainted for the ice train
IDragon auz Funny to me they look like F 40PH M in all these years of the F-40PH M This is a first-time I've ever heard of F69PH(?) Unless its a rebuild and modifications to call it an F 69. METRO NORTH RAILROAD did something similar ex -GULF MOBILE AND OHIO F-3 EMD units and converted them new specifications to F-10 units. MARC also coverted F-7 units to an F-9 PH.... I just viewed. as i was typing this response .. German ICE TRAIN ON TOUR It reveals: F69PH-AC BUILT BY ELECTRO-MOTIVE Engine number 451. I was close but no cigar! I must say they're dead ringers as you look at their slanted noses on the cabs & lights!
Hey man. Great railfanning video. Metra railfanning videos are always super fun to watch. I’m working on a video talking about Metra, and I was wondering if I could use this video in my video? I will credit you and link this in the description
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Push pull trains have a cab car in front. Same controls that the engineer would have in an engine just not a physical locomotive. Saves time and money during rush hour. In short, the answer is no.
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Maybe consider doing a video of Christmas eve or day from union station in chicago Grand Central in NYC Union Station in Washington DC cover the exterior and interior of the station and hope for snow.
I agree but it’s way to expensive to install and replace all of the locomotives plus wires are way more costly compared to traditional rail, a little smoke never hurt anyone
@@Sol_7 Actually, Part of it was eletrical at one stage but then removed after diesel became popular. Now if you go on the Green Bay trail (bike,walk path) in some spots you can see the old stations for the eletric line.
@@MetraEmdF40PH If my time on the internet, and books from the CPL serve me correctly, the electric line that went north did NOT originate from Millennium, Ogilvie, or Union, it originated from Roosevelt "L" station, in downtown Chicago, or sometimes Dorchester, in south Chicago. The operator of those stations was called The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, and its trackage reached as far as Dorchester, Milwaukee, Edison Court (In Mundelein) and even had two separate ways to get from Howard "L" to North Chicago Junc. (Skokie Valley, not part of the yellow line, and the Shoreline Route, Part of the purple line.) This operator ceased trading in 1963, and therefore never partnered with the RTA.
@@AGSGuy Ah the double slip switches might be it, they've not really been used where I live since I think the 30s and have been subsequently swapped out for less maintenance-heavy alternatives. Might be the reason why especially suburban trains tend to rush a lot more around here, think double the speed when approaching the terminal
@@AGSGuy Ah the double slip switches might be it, they've not really been used where I live since I think the 30s and have been subsequently swapped out for less maintenance-heavy alternatives. Might be the reason why especially suburban trains tend to rush a lot more around here, think double the speed when approaching the terminal
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Some of Metra's locomotives don't have a separate HEP generator and the main prime mover is used to supply power to the coaches. Because of this they rev higher.
@@NYTrainzchaser Interesting. I think adding to that high rev sound is that these are two strokes, so they might always sound faster than a comparable 4-stroke would sound.
