Railfan window view on the former CB&Q main line (now BNSF) from Chicago Union Station to Lisle, IL. Filmed on June 19, 2014, heading west on train #5. Unfortunately, the window was filthy! Be sure to watch in 1080 hi def.
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@bobbypaluga43466 жыл бұрын
Nice of the folks to keep the windows so crystal clear clean. Details, details Amtrak that’s what it’s all about
@shariys17 жыл бұрын
I've done this ride from Chicago to Denver and back several times ... lovely way to travel ... makes me homesick for it, if there's a such thing as being homesick for a train ride!
@DOLRED5 жыл бұрын
I knew the AT&SF (Santa Fe) RR main line ran behind St Anthony Hospital seen here at 8:10. This video shows just that!! Except, Dearborn Station in Chicago, where the SF terminated, was closed in the early 1970's and the terminus moved to Union Station. A memory for me was hearing steam trains passing by the hospital during the night. I was in the boys ward as hospitalized in 1957 and the ward was at the rear of the hospital facing the tracks. It was 4 tracks there and still is.
@ElCapitan17183 жыл бұрын
I thought this line was referred to as the "Racetrack". It seems on this day that it should be referred to as a "snail's pace". When I rode the Denver Zephyr in 1967, we were on the middle track and flying out of town.
@mrbronson53332 жыл бұрын
Heavy Train Traffic. Plus this train was following Metra 1233 for a while until an opportunity to switch to the middle track and pass it. 1233 makes all station stops. Passed it at LaGrange Stone Ave. Switched Tracks at Brookfield/Congress Park switches. Switched back to Westbound Track at Fairview Ave.
@markschenher45595 жыл бұрын
I worked in Cicero back in 1988 at the CB&Q (BN) container terminal The trains seems to be faster back then The commuter trains going past the yard would be braking hard , the wheels ringed with fire from the iron brake shoes I miss it like I miss cancer
@MrRobertver8 жыл бұрын
WOW!! OMG!! Poderoso Amtrak....
@Crusader18159 жыл бұрын
Note to self... If I ever decide to do this, bring the Windex.
@Robbi4968 жыл бұрын
+Crusader1815 I am thinking that either the washer does not hit that part well, or that the lexan gets pitted from ballast being "sucked up" in the slipstream?
@pk26pk268 жыл бұрын
You do realize you can film a *forward*-moving train by riding Metra trains inbound to Chicago, right?
@MDLsRailViews4 жыл бұрын
Yes I know that. However, it is rare that I ride Metra since I don't live in the Chicago area.
@bixfisher9 жыл бұрын
I have NEVER been on an Amtrak train where the windows are clean. I think they spray crap on them just because.
@Robbi4968 жыл бұрын
+bixfisher Hmmm? I have been on lots of them with clean windows? Maybe I am just lucky??
@bixfisher8 жыл бұрын
You are lucky. I don't remember clean windows, usually hazy at best, outright dirty at worst.
@bobbypaluga43466 жыл бұрын
bixfisher They figure it’s a luxury people can do without
@jeremywilliams567510 жыл бұрын
can you really do that make a video when the train is pulling out from Chicago?
@dixitanuj299 жыл бұрын
jb
@jeremywilliams56759 жыл бұрын
***** ???
@Crusader18159 жыл бұрын
Well, the stewardesses try to make you sit and fasten your seat belts for takeoff, but sometimes you can sneak back to the back like this.
@jeremywilliams56759 жыл бұрын
Crusader1815 oh come on your on a train well it may be touch for coach but first class theirs a better chance