South Shore Line - Chicago, IL. to Gary, IN. [WINTER 2016] 

Sentimental Journey ... I rode the South Shore many times from South Bend (home) to Chicago and back as a small boy, and then later, after having gone off to school on the West Coast, when coming home for Christmas or such. I love trains, and loved the old Orange Peril, as we jokingly called it. Hope she keeps rolling another hundred years! Thanks for the memories.

Great Video! No goofy music or drama. It was like being in the cab with the engineer.

Lived in Michigan City, Indiana for a short period of time! Took the South Shore Line to and from Chicago!! Classic!!!

I have ridden the south shore from Chicago to Chesterton Indiana many times with my grandmother who is no longer with us, This brings back memories from that time. I miss you grandma :(

Thanks for posting this, it brings back many great memories

Thanks for this trip down memory lane from my childhood.

The abandoned railroad bridge at 20:50 in the video at 79th st belongs to the New York, Chicago and St.louis Railroad or Nickel Plate Road.

When I last visited Chicago, a few years ago, I made a point to ride the South Shore Line from The Loop to Ogden Dunes. I love that line!

I have never ridden a South Shore train. This video makes me feel like I'm actually on it!!😁. I'm going to do it for real one day. It looks like fun and convenient!!😊

I've grown up taking the Metra MDN line, watching a south bound line is so refreshing!

I rode the whole way. Great video. Thanks. 😎👍

Thank you for that train ride. I found it quite enjoyable. Liked stumpy pigeon as well.

Well done! Thanks!!

Many Thanks for this Video Sir. Most Appreciated. Images speak as Poetry.

Awesome video. From beginning to the end excellent filming. Thanks for sharing. God bless.

At 9:58 you can see where the Canadian National Chicago Sub passes over the Metra Electric on a flyover under McCormick place, and then at 10:12 the headlight on the far left is a CN freight about to cross over that same point. Then at 14:21 there is another northbound CN freight as the South Shore train is entering Hyde Park. CN only runs 6-10 freight trains a day on that portion of the Chicago Sub, catching two of them minutes apart is highly unusual.

Pretty cool! thanks for the video!

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!

This trip is on my wish list. Maybe in two years or so when I'm back in Chicago for a convention!

Riding trains up north are fun ,I used to stay in Elkhart ,Indiana and rode over to Chicago sometimes

did anybody ever thought about counting how many times the bell rang

I am a native and rode the SS and the IC many times. Allow me a small correction. There is no such thing as Hegewisch, Illinois, Hegewisch is part of Chicago. Other than that, very enjoyable and brought back a lot of memories.

The pigeon wasn't having it.

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.

I purchase my first JVC boom box in the 80's traveling from Gary to Chicago. Every two weeks I would catch the train and make payments. Yep, I had the law-a-way plan) As old blue eyes would say, *Thanks For The Memory*

I have always found it interesting that the South Shore was classified as an interurban. It is, but it seems so much more a heavy duty electric/ diesel railroad line

If I was a driver on that system, that incessant bell would drive me completely mad! Are ear-protectors mandatory for the driver?

I grew up and lived in Chicago until 1982 l used to take South Shore line to Indiana dunes state park.

I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago in Hyde Park. On rare occasions, we would ride the South Shore Line. Last year, I got to ride the South Shore Line all of the way from South Bend to Chicago and back to South Bend on a warm, sunny day in October. This was the first time I got to ride on the whole line from one end to the other and I did enjoy it. What day in 2016 was this filmed on?

Some of the rusted trusses utilized to hold up the electrical lines still look original in the Chicago and Gary vicinities. The ones made of wooden poles appear to be replacements. Am I correct?

The Bird waiting on. His train to come too lollll 😂😂😂😂😂

What exactly is that eerie electrical sound? I know it's an electric car, but I hear that sound on the Metra electric line. It's a creepy noise.

Good can ride. You could've been doing with the camera on a tripod or ledge though. The moving camera does get a bit irritating

As of 2019, is the South Shore Line running the single-level cars, the bi-level cars or both types?

Good video.

CHICAGO IS SUCH A BADASS CITY..

Very nicely done. Whom did you ask to shoot from that vantage point?

Soldier Field from 8:07-8:38!!!! Daaaaaa🐻's!! 👍

I don't know that much about the South Shore Line but was there a reason why there's 2 separate platforms instead instead of just one center platform at Hegewisch station?

Wouldn't it be cool if the Metra folks would repaint the retired highliners Orange and use them for special events?

At 32:43 there is a Conrail switcher about a 2 minute drive from where that bridge is if you look to your right and drive you might see it for yourself. I did!

What’s with bell? Is it some kind of special instruction that it be rung at all times or....?

Really, that bell rang for an hour?

Good Stuff AF

What the heck is that junction thing at the platform of Hegewisch for @ 34:20?

Good thing we just have pigeon's in our SI Ferry terminal. (LOOOL)

Is there a South Shore Line video Michigan City to South Bend, either present day or back in the Orange Cars days? Thanks

I looking for a cabride from NY to Boston. I watched it for a long time but now I don't know to locate it. Do you know where are there some video about this? Thanks.

dude i literally riding this traint from gary to chicago tomorrow the south shore line train

Correct me if I’m wrong, but this is the only electric heavy rail line in the US outside of the Northeast Corridor right?

That brick sturcture on the left is last remaining part of the Central Station Complex

Real nice

I remember reading about this in one of the railroad modeling genre of magazine back in ~'69. Why the overlapping tracks (34:25), are some trains wider than others?

Being a Packer fan I still shake my head at the UFO that landed to the left of the tracks at about 9:40. Ruined a perfectly good stadium.

Hiw much does it cost ?

If you wanted to see the metra highliner units there 2 rows with 6 highliner cars in blue island metra eletric station 127 st yard

1:09 awew he made freinds with a pigeon :3

Oh wow that’s good news

Railroad bell repairman wanted...great pay and benifits.

What is the purpose of the two sets of tracks offset from each other at the station? 34:42

3:29 interesting flang-hitting/scraping-the-rail sound.

I cant believe how many metro trains you passed I thought double slip switches were ony at union station the one at 19.19 in the middle no ware

taking the train to the birthplace of the jacksons

This may sound dumb but I didn't know that that area was electrified also , I guess once the train gets out of the metro area it goes faster...........

Those tracks and junctions look like they could use some servicing and upgrading. The train has to slow down a lot through some of them

Strange how overhead wires don't have zig-zag design in order to prevent slider from wear.

No more orange and maroon on the bi-levels, not even on the South Shore logo! Hmm!

Must that infernal bell ring all the time?

I had a girlfriend who lived in South Bend, IN who took this train in on weekends. I had to pick her up at that ramshackle station on was it Dearborn? The C&NW station?

And if your on the university park metra 3 station heading in to chicago you will see highliners and metra pullman cars

1:11 - Птичка...

This train sounds like Santa's sleigh :) Why the constant sound of the alarmbells?

Since the pigeon is on a bench, I guess it is not a stool pigeon?

Are you filming this through an open window ?

God how do passengers put up with DING DING DING DING DING DING DING for 90 minutes?

Oh hi there is your birthday card for me today too so close by your house

I’m not going anywhere for IL

What can CGA? Chicago Transit Authority can't buy this line so they can make it part of the city of Chicago. Credit cards with $30 or more but it would be a good investment because that way even have Indiana part of your tax revenue.

Can someone turn that bell off please

why is the bell on for the most part

The Vomit Comet.

I’m not going anywhere for

Gary indianna is one of the only places that a HOLIDAY INN, HAD TO CLOSE UP, BECAUSE OF ROBBERY. that was in the 70s. THE LOCAL RESADENTS STOLD EVERYTHING THEY COOD! hay, wheres the graffity on the cars? and i dident see any busted windows! Safest place in town is next to the police station! I used to work near Gary! like a third world city.

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Nice video but why are you moving the camera so much? It should have been locked down. ;-)

Maybe it is the effect of the snow but that was such a depressing train ride.

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.

Here we go again. The train switches off at 27:26 and go to where? The tracks that go straight ahead go to where and the tracks where the train is heading now goes where? You see where I live, the west coast, we never see or have track leading off here and there like I see here. Electric trains do not operate and only diesel rules the rails.

Absolutely no need whatsoever to have the bell rining constantly!! Like many other spaects of American Railways - they have not moved on like the rest of the Railway World!!

Not a bad video, but the constant side to side motion of the camera made me dizzy. Could have done a better job steadying the camera...

I watched a video once

Oh wow that’s good news