Chicago Rail Center 1970's Film No. 173 Color Sound Nick Muff

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Amtrak SW Limited, BN Commuter x 2, Coachyard SW-1, BN Commuter, Coachyard Moves, Amtrak Turbotrain, Broadway Limited, SW Limited, BN Commuter, Coachyard Switching Activity, SW Limited, Milwaukee Commuter, CNW Commuter x 12, RI Commuter x 9, RI Freight, RI Commuter x 10, Chicago Elevated, IC Commuter, CSS7SB Interurban IC Station

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@PRHILL9696 4 ай бұрын

Miss the old Chicago Northwestern Terminal so much!!

@Belleville197 Жыл бұрын

Wow... Chicago was railroad heaven.

@PRHILL9696 4 ай бұрын

Still is

@JohnJohn-zn8ib 6 ай бұрын

This is iconic.

@garysprandel1817 Жыл бұрын

Lasalle street station helps to really nail down the year. If I had to guess it's 77 going by the RTA's F40ph's seem to all be concentrated on Rock Island property with the Caponeliners still in service with none of the new Budd sets seen.

@mathuetax 10 ай бұрын

Considering how unified the AMTRAK paint looks I'd have to agree.

@DrJjones 7 ай бұрын

Nice seeing the few clips of the mail cars being pulled from the mail terminal under the post office. I worked the mail terminal during the last years of Amtrak mail service. David Gunn’s and Amtrak’s biggest blunder was canceling the mail contracts with the USPS.

@trainliker100 10 ай бұрын

It was nice to see the C&NW downtown train shed when the original station was still there. The train shed is still there but the classic station was torn down and replaced by the glass skyscraper "Ogilvie Transporation Center". I had gone down to that station many times growing up to watch trains. I would ride the "L" from Oak Park and get off at Clinton. And then walk south down Clinton until you came to a seldom used door. I went in the door and up a flight of stairs (the tracks were one flight up above street level) and you pop up at the west side of the train shed. Sometimes right next to an idling diesel locomotive. From there, I would go through doors into the station head house. One time I did this, all of the doors to the station head house seemed covered over with businesses like food stands and newspaper stands. This just "didn't compute" with me. I tried to find a way into the station from the train shed but couldn't. Finally, I exited a door on the east side of the train shed to walk around to the station on the outside, and that's when I saw a giant hole in the ground where the station had been demolished. One detail about the train shed that you can just barely make out in the videos are the extensions added to the bottom of the supports. They had to raise the entire roof of the train shed to accommodate the taller bilevel commuter cars.

@PRHILL9696 4 ай бұрын

Miss the old terminal so much myself!

@LotusbandicootRR 24 күн бұрын

Amazing footage!! The sights of railroads in the past are always one thing, but the sounds are a whole different level. Also, I was frantically trying to track down the location of the shot at 11:03. Somewhere in the back of my mind I thought I'd been at that same crossing in recent years on a trip to Chicago, but I doubted myself on it. Turns out I was right, and it's on Canal St. It just struck me as odd that there was an at-grade crossing in downtown Chicago when I crossed there, but I assumed there were probably several more at the time of the video and the one seen here was probably somewhere else. As of 2021, it looks like the Cassidy Tire building in the background is still standing and doing good business. There's still quite a bit of crossing equipment there and even a mechanical bell still on one of the signals as of the 2021 shot.

@anthonyc1883 9 ай бұрын

A grim day during a grim era, but I'm so glad this footage was made. I was a HS student in Chicago during this exact time frame, coming of age in my ability to get around, my photography and my general sensibilities of the passing scene. Railroads seemed to almost everyone back then to be total dinosaurs, butts of jokes, etc. but the industry got strong again eventually, even though we lost so much color, so many routes, towers, spurs, etc. I love everything about this film, even the gray day and the grime.

@concorde2003 9 ай бұрын

That took a lot of time and dedication. Thank you.

@azrailfan2717 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic footage. Especially the original sound. 😎

@fleetwoodvo8673 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your INCREDIBLE WORK!

@janickgoudeau6126 6 ай бұрын

Some good work put in here 😊

@gustavovasile428 10 ай бұрын

GREAT VÍDEO!!!

@TroublesomeSlateTruck 9 ай бұрын

Wow.

@jmream2618 10 ай бұрын

I didn’t know Amtrak had gallery coaches

@waitaminute7257 4 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍 love this!!

@Steven_Williams Ай бұрын

Memories!!

@mathuetax 10 ай бұрын

Sweet!

@MIKECNW 19 күн бұрын

Feel bad for those engineers who forgot to hook up. Just imagine how embarrassing it must have been when they made their 1st stop.

@mitchmatthews6713 Күн бұрын

I miss the E and F units.

@jimboson2010 11 ай бұрын

Got cold just watching video. Im in New Zealand and we dont have anything of this size here.also narrow gauge track so no big locos as usa. Government closed our rail building plants.now our locos are made in China.lots of break downs etc. Keep well.