Front view footage from South Shore train # 109 from Gary, IN. to Michigan City, IN. (Carroll Ave.) Some additional filming of westbound train # 20 at Michigan City and Hyde Park, Chicago at night.
This is great. I always wondered how the South Shore runs through Miller, IN at 6:07. It takes the old Lake Shore and Michigan Southern right of way. Thanks for this video. Better than maps!
@@kevinhoward9593 Oh no!!!! 😭 That sucks! Unfortunately I'm too far in the east coast so looks like I'll never be able to catch this street running in person sadly...
Excellent video. Thank you. However, when I rode this line in 2016 and 2019, I don't remember the bell being used so extensively even in the streets. A wonderful line, but I suppose that the planned double-tracking and changing 11th Street into a Transit Corridor will change the line's unique interurban character, but it will be better for commuters.
At 22:20 is the old access road and parking lot for Tremont, replaced by Dune Park one mile west. It was a ground level flag stop. Told the conductor you wanted to get off at Tremont and he'd tell the motorman to stop. To be picked up you waved your arms. I lived 100 yards past this stop in 1971-1974.
Thanks for this very beautiful movie. The railway line is really interesting and a great connection between Chicago and the cities on the south lake. Great video! 👏👏👏
The railroad was a lot more fun when they still operated the 1920's heavyweights and had electric freight motors, and the old Michigan City Depot all boarded up...sad.
Jud Powell: The Interurban Tradition is fast fading. I do miss the old electrics built by PULLMAN - STANDARD and the electric freight locomotives. With diesel fuel now so expensive perhaps the South Shore Line will reconsider using electric freight locomotives or dual modes that can switch between overhead wires and diesel power in one locomotives.
@@albertcarello619those 1920 era cars wound up at a number of museums - but they are problematic because the SouthShore runs at a much higher voltage (1500 volts) than streetcars (typically 600-800 volts) so they are static displays.
Are those large metal transformers the same ones I noticed in a different video? Same route, but in 1927. They look rusted enough to be 90+ years old. I guess they could have replaced them 50-60 years ago.
I can scarcely believe what I see here: in residential Michigan City a ONE-TRACK line runs down the MIDDLE of the STREETS! I can only guess at the annoyance of the neighborhoods about the noise-pollution factor...JAT
Hello Aaron,very nice video,i really enjoyed by watching it.In my opinion South Shore Line looks similarly in character to WKD(Warsaw's Interurban Railway)from Warszawa Sródmieście WKD to Grodzisk Mazowiecki.Greetigs from Warsaw:)
South Shore Line (NICTD) is the other commuter rail line that connects the Chicago-Tri State area metropolitan area together, with the main one being Metra. Quite similar to NYC with multiple commuter lines. The main difference is that NICTD connects parts of IL south suburbs but mainly connects the Indiana (and nearby Michigan) suburbs to Chicago across the state lines which gets complicated when it comes to regional commuter railroad funding - which is pretty much the only reason that NICTD isn't just another Metra line. Greetings from Chicago. This Line terminates at Chicago Millennium Station Terminal and at South Bend, IN, on the other side. Fun fact, Metra actually has one single station across a state line, in Kenosha, WI. The catch is that Kenosha has to directly (at least partly) fund their station as it is not within the bounds of the Illinois Regional Transportation Authority. It is for this reason that the UP-N Metra line does not further north travel to Racine, which is also often considered part of the Chicago Metropolitan area. I am Polish too by the way. Pozdrawiam.
It was important if you were riding all the way to South Bend that you be in the first car. I experienced a panicky couple who realized the first car was split off from the rest of the train at the Michigan City yard and they had to run down the tracks to catch it.
Yes the line still runs all of the way from South Bend to Chicago. On a warm, sunny day in October last year, I rode this train from South Bend to Chicago and all of the way back to South Bend.
I just saw the date (12/15/2016) at the end of the video. Thank you for filming this and putting it on RU-vid. I rode these trains a few times when we lived in Chicago in the 1960's.
Great video. Of course we have such light railways in the UK as well, many more in Germany. @Aaron Friedman Is the building with CHIEF written on it at 39:35 anything to do with the railway?
I lived in the area back during the first Gulf War, and believe it or not they were running military trains down the middle of the street. At Michigan City yards, there is a track that used to belong to the nickel plate which was being used to transport the equipment. There was also an interchange point with Conrail (now Amtrak) but that was removed by that time, so they had to route the freight trains through downtown Michigan City.
@@ArtStoneUS Dang, that was one of the coolest times to see the South Shore. I wish I got to see Military trains running in the middle of the street at least once. Also... The street running recently was ripped up. I managed to film last of the action before it was gone.
@@WindyCityExpeditionist it was before cell phones, so the only pictures I have are in my memory. I think they were taking HumVs that were made by American General in South Bend to Chicago About the same time, a spur that runs into an air base in Mount Clemens was brought back to life. It had only been used for the Michigan Transit museum to run excursion trains
@ArtStoneUS Man, I wish I could see those days happen again. Those were they good o'l days of the south shore when they were transitioning into Japanese EMU's.
@@ArtStoneUS The CSSB is linked with most East Coast Class Ones, so they gotta interchange and transfer to them. Bringing those HumV's to the East Coast to be shipped to the Middle East. They really are the last and coolest interurban to survive.
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The selling points are 1) one of the roads you see is a toll road, and the other (US 12) goes through the worst parts of Gary and Hammond; you take your life in your hands driving to Chicago, and 2) fares to ride th SSL are lower than the cost to park in Chicago for a day. Yes, I'm a fan!
@@justinanderson181 this all takes me back... I grew up in Hobart and my Gramma taught school in Gary. I been in Houston now since 1976 but i remember riding the SSL many times as teenager when i wanted to go to Chi town and couldn't drive yet!
Cats01: The North Shore Line and the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin were far faster trains than these frequently running at 80 plus miles an hour making them the interurban speed champions. In fact the Chicago Aurora and Elgin trains would be right at the crossings before the gates were halfway down! The North Shore Trains took only 1 hour and 58 minutes to go from Chicago's Loop to Milwaukee WI! in spite of street running in Milwaukee WI!
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