Who is that? I am just kidding I know Lee Crooks! But If he was replaced i would die instantly.

@@Jackyliu009 At least someone here has some sense.

@@sandraberrios1808 same here, it’s just an updated version. Lee Crooks is the voice of Chicago and has been like that since my childhood.

@@brandonlightfoot5631 I kinda guessed it was. I was just saying if he was replaced I would go on a rampage and die instantly right after.

Lee Crooks has me hooked on saying his occasional announcements, including the infamous "Doors Closing" phrase. Sounds so different, considering that it was updated, with this new fleet of CTA railcars, along with the others.

its a door bell

@@chromebomb door bell.....door chime....same thing

I hate announcements. I know where I amm going.

@@keithsy75 some people are blind, and other people may be riding the route for the first time and may have no idea where they are going

@@keithsy75 Soooo you are familiar with EVERY stop on aaaall the train lines? Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Brown, Orange, Purple...

For me, the biggest negative was how loud the train used to get when it entered the subway. Thankfully that is fixed now.

Same thing with the Orange line! They gave the worst cars to the two airport lines. Always made me jealous while waiting at a station.

But you already know that’s what they’re going to do lol...the best cars must go on the lines that showcase the attractions along the line, just the way it goes 🤷🏾‍♂️

The other week, I saw one of these trains in the 95th / Ryan Red Line yard, so I don't know!

It’s for the blue since the Ohare branch of the blue has power / electrical issues, these newer cars use less power

@@Firefox_42 yeah, and the older cars honestly give off that “we don’t really care about modernizing the system” vibe to tourists that travel to Chicago and have to use the CTA trains to get around.

It’s hard to believe the old sound recordings are about 2 decades old.

Why would they build the train locally to have a higher floor than the platforms, or build the platforms to be shorter than the floor height of the trains?

This is something that most modern trains have lmao

@@ivanoffw The train have exacting spec that's accurate to the 10th of an inch. The platforms and rails not so much. So you need to have a way to compensate, normal on modern rail trains. Chicago hasn't had a modern rail till now.

Chinese craftsmanship.

Omg the new announcements and door chimes on the WMATA 7000 series SUCKS. I *hate* it when transit systems use text-to-speech for their announcements. It just sounds cold, unfriendly, and un-human, which is not what you want your transit system to sound like. And the door chime on the 7000 series is terrible, too. I wish they would keep the old door chime and get an actual person to record the announcements. The CTA ‘L’ has 2 more lines than DC and 54 more stations, so if they can pull off human announcements, I think WMATA can (and should). Not to mention NYC.

@@OliversElevators Wdym mean wen you talk about NYC

@@crazyexpresso NYC has way more lines and stations than either the CTA or WMATA, but they still use real human voices for their announcements, which is quite a feat. Granted, they use spliced-together audio files to put together announcements so they don’t have to manually record each announcement, but it’s still great that they use real voices for their announcements.

Yeah CRRC also made the new Orange and Red line trains for Boston

Yeah China is making America great again!

if I'm correct under US law foreign rail companies Have to make at least some parts of the trains here

@@ciello___8307 Final assembly has to be in the US under the Buy America Act

@@babicomel2469 Thanks Trump for saving us, so much has changed! LOL

Just curious why they’re better than the aisle facing seats?

Ok?

CRRC started with Boston, but then China-USA relation took a dumpster dive.

the DC Metro 7000 series is much brighter on the inside though

Wdym plenty of crossover lines?

Example from just today. I took New Jersey Transit from X to New York Penn station. I arrived at 1100 hrs. My Long Island Railroad connection, a very short walk from Track 4 to Track 17 and I was on my 1119 hrs. Train. Impossible at Chicago Union station. Don't get me wrong...I really like my commute on METRA but to get to my destination in say Chinatown I need to get to the blue line, blocks away and change to the Red line through a rather unpleasant tunnel and multiple staircases.

@@rachelehrenberg9231 oh okay I understand.

You don't have to do all that. From Union Station just walk along Jackson until Clark and take the 24 Wentworth bus to Chinatown.

@@ChicagolandTransit True but not my point.

Crooks is getting older, so his voiceovers might reflect that as a result

no it shouldn't they already have the 3200's i really think the orange line should receive them first as it should be

@@tvorfreddy I get what you're saying. But you gotta remember that the 3200's that have been doing runs on the Blue Line for the past 2 years (I think) were "borrowed" from the Ravenswood Brown for the most part. Also, this shift of the 3200's to the Blue Line completely depleted the Orange Line of the few remaining 3200's they were running. If I'm not mistaken, the shift of the 3200's and of a few 5000's to the Blue was pretty much done out of necessity because the 2600's were just plain "shot"; they were on their last leg. So the newer equipment was needed to supplement the aging 2600's. And then too, when the Orange Line was first opened in the early 1990's, that line was run exclusively by the then brand new 3200's. That assignment remained solid until around late 2012 - 2013. The Blue Line on the other hand NEVER saw 3200's or 5000's until recently. From the mid-1980s that line has operated with mostly 2600's (then brand new) with a few Budd 2200's in the mix. I know it sounds unfair, but the Blue is LOOONNNNNGGGGG overdue for brand new equipment. But I don't think you have to worry; the Orange Line IS going to get it's share of 7000's.

@@TheChicagoL understandable but the only the thing the blue line also needs is a repair on tracks of the Douglas branch I’m just a lil bit concerned on how these trains will preform on that side of the line other than that I really don’t mind seeing these trains on the blue line and let’s hope orange will receive them as well both lines serves to and from the airport and it’ll be great for tourists who’s new to the city to experience the smooth quiet rides on these new equipment rather then the loud 2600 series.

@@tvorfreddy The Douglas branch was completely rebuilt in the early 2000s. You must be referring to the Congress branch.

@@ChicagolandTransit yeah the congress my fault dude

It only announces it any stop between O'Hare and Racine.

Track run #101 tomorrow morning

@@ChicagolandTransit Around what time will that be? Sorry, I wasn’t sure where to find a tracker or schedule for the run number.

Now they need to update CTA buses.

@@apostolic2216 I hope you read my response to your previous comment. Also, CTA will be getting more 40ft buses in 2022.

Thanks

When Maya?

I thought so at first that they sound like the MBTA's Blue Line cars but it's actually a different propulsion. When the 7000 accelerates, the pitch goes from a low to high pitch then starts over and starts over twice. It's not like the 5000s although the beginning of the sound is familiar. Watch my other videos of the 7000s on the Red Line, the one with the Howard action. In the middle of the video I took a clip in the subway. You can hear it a lot better.

Wrong

@@ChicagolandTransit Those cars came from a Chinese company.

Correct but they were not built in Springfield, MA.

I agree

Yeah I feel with the way it’s deteriorated the best thing to do would be to just rip the whole bandaid off. But of course that’s contingent on the IDOT’s project to realign/rebuild the Ike, and they’ve been dragging their feet on that for years. What if the CTA reconstructs the branch and then IDOT decides to reconstruct the Ike right after, forcing CTA to rebuild track they had just laid?

As I've mentioned in previous videos of the 7000s most of the parts of the train come from American companies, with the truck, motor, and cab signaling components coming from Siemens. All CRRC is doing for the most part is assembling the rail cars and providing the shells.

I guess the Sifang treats this train much better than their domestic versions. That is we Chinese always joke about our country's products. Even in China Sifang is not good at metro trains, their high-speed trains are more reliable than their metros. CRRC Changchun's metro is better and they have more domestic market share in metro trains than Sifang.

When was last time you rode on a Chinese train? Take a look first before jumping to conclusions.

The issue is actually more complicated than you think. They are waiting on IDOT to finish the Jane Byrne interchange project that is taking forever so that they can come up with a plan to reconstruct I-290. There is a proposal to move the Congress branch to the middle of the Expressway from Central to Harlem. Right now it's running on one side of the Ike and the exit lanes are in the left lanes, which causes a traffic bottle neck for miles. IDOT wants to get rid of that which requires the CTA tracks to have to be moved to the middle.

Only place to get enough tracks to replace all the old ones are made in China; the US simply don't have the capacity. The trump tariffs put a stop to that.

They should just do what they did with the Dan Ryan Red Line and close it for a couple of months for a complete rebuild. Blue line trains can continue on the Douglas Branch (Pink Line) and addition green line trains can be run along with shuttle busses. The tracks along the Eisenhower are getting really bad. Last time I checked the main thing holding up fixing the tracks was IDOT. Hopefully something will happen sooner rather than later.

@@Eric-sl4jl Exactly, they're probably all waiting for more funding from the government with this!!!

It would take a million times the money spend on the trains to fix those two problems. And I don't think Chicagoans are up to paying a million a year in property taxes.

@@seanxu13 I don't think anyones up for paying taxes anytime soon since *TAXATION IS THEFT* and businesses such as Amazon.com Inc. will only campaign for higher taxes if it hurts their competitors more... And no I don't think it would "tae a million times the money spend" to fix Chichago's crime problem, all they need to do is read >10 pages of the book "More Guns, Less Crime" by John R. Lott. and published by the University of Chichago Press.

AC electric motor with Active suspension.

cheaper to build and safer too.

I would assume not for 15+ years. Red Line is all 5000 series ~10y/o. Blue, Orange, Brown will probably get updated first (unless they do a reshuffle).

Design and build 100 years ago.

@@seanxu13 they can just modernize it.

@@yosh9433, they can’t have an all cemented ballast stereotypically.

@@seanxu13 the Congress branch opened in 1958. Not 100 years ago....

Trump tariff put a stop the the new tracks.

@@seanxu13 screw trump I don't give a shit about him and he is not president anymore and let's keep it that way

$632 million order for 400 rail cars is the price. The noise is the design of the train being so old. The new ones are AC electric motor with active suspension.

@@seanxu13 I'm not too familiar with the average costs elsewhere. Do you know how it compares to a cost of trains in, say, Seoul or Paris? I hate that the CTA actually shut down stops from the past, and now distances between stops within a line can be a whole mile, and between lines they can be many miles apart. I love the Paris Métro and they have an average distance of 500 m, and I would love to walk at most 250 m to get to a train. Also why don't we have any light rail if something like the circle line is "too expensive" (but Carter's pensions apparently aren't)??

The CTA is mostly focused on the Red Purple Modernization project right now. They are replacing a 100 year old embankment with a new 'L' structure between Lawrence and Bryn Mawr. We're talking about repairing a 60+ year old rail line vs a 100 year old embankment that is also falling apart.

Secondary priority after the RPM and Red Line Extension right now. Congress rebuild is probably next after that.

There's also conflicts in planning. IDOT wants to rebuild the Eisenhower Expressway. Without coordination a Blue Line rebuild before the Highway rebuild would mean delays on the line even with new tracks while highway construction takes over. The best and most likely option is the CTA/IDOT coming to an agreement on the timeline and work that needs to be done to reduce unnecessary delays from construction most likely shutting down the branch completely while construction takes place.

He was actually laughing. I was trying to listen to his conversation and I think he just found something funny.

they are design and build over 100 years ago. They looks pretty good being that old.

It looks worse than it is

The sounds of the expressway fade out the sound of the propulsion. You can hear it better in my video of the 7000s testing on the Pink Line. They have a Siemens propulsion.

@@ChicagolandTransit Oh ok, I'll go check that out!

AC Electric Motors

I was going to say the same. That speed is ridiculous and kinda defeats the point.

@@MyCamilla1989 could you imagine if the central line ran that slow 😱😱🤣🤣

@@michaelbuntine362 it’s like American railway authorities are doing their best to make people go off railways.

Mainly conditions. Chicago Summer is no joke so for safety, the CTA has to slow down trains. It also not actually that slow. Chicago runs trains up to 55 miles an hour in normal times. The Metropolitan Line only runs 5 miles faster at 60 mph

Cheaper and safer.

There's nothing "modern" about open gangways. It's been around for decades.

This ain’t TfL or the TTC (both systems have open gangway cars)

The speakers were way too loud. Usually I record the announcements directly on the speaker but that's one of the bugs the train has right now.

The design was specifically chosen to match the old ones. Down to the seat with cloth and plastic sides. The city don't want you to see what the latest trains design looks like in China and complain.

@@seanxu13 but the thing is that the Chicago metro looks so outdated... why can’t Chicago have a nice working system like ones in China or the rest of the world?

@@thechickenstew3716, not everyone wants a Copypasta system. That’s why cta has four lines going ABOVE Ground. With only TWO underground in the city’s central area. That’s better than having all 6 underground exclusively.

@@videonut1988 not everyone wants an archaic outdates system that constantly needs repairs. most ppl don’t care that the trains are there as long as the work. but in chicago’s case… they dont always work.

No they dont

Its made in Chicago by union workers. Just design in China. We design planes and made in China. It just happens that trains are the main transit system in China.

They give pennies and take the millions. American companies should start their production

@Ploke Newo78 yes and all the profits go to France. Learn a thing or two from the competitors. Look at China. It has overtaken USA in almost every field

well in nyc the seats are not fabric so no piss. and usually the trains are crowded enough that there are few homeless

Chinese Design? How do you figure that?

Because the system was design and build in 1892. To be honest, the system looks pretty good for being 100 year old.

@@seanxu13 Why hasn’t the government upgraded the tracks

Nah the 3200s is where I'm gonna cry.

It’s simply the fact that I’ve loved them for so long that I just don’t see the others the same. And I can’t forget the red white and blue cta scheme they had which makes me like them even more so.

@@hollisandzdrake1272 you know I'm not really a fan of Roblox but your 7000 looks pretty dope.

@@ChicagolandTransit eh its so and so. although it has some pretty good decals

Already the 2200s were gone, and now the 2600s :(

No. Made in America

Assembled in the US, but mostly made in China. The EU is thinking of restrictions for companies with ties outside Europe. They would be scrutinized and many if not most Chinese companies wouldn't get the contract as they are often using price dumping tactics. And we should definitely not support the CCP!

@@oskarsrode2167 Actually, TrainMaking is not a kind of industry with high technological barriers. Almost every country with sufficient wealth could start its own train maker. It was only because Americans don't think train making is important and it makes much more sense to buy from others instead. Cuz Americans don't have a railway market large enough to justify running its own train makers.

@@oskarsrode2167 Secondly, train making is overcompeted. With the Rotem🇰🇷, Hitachi from Japan🇯🇵, CAF🇪🇸,And Alstom and Siemens. There are too much train makers. Also, unlike cars who go everywhere, Train are made specific to their own rail system. Therefore their aren’t lots of demands for railway to support them all. In facts Bombardier ended up sold its rail division to Alstom.

@@oskarsrode2167 Thirdly, every countries(Japan,Korea) protect their own train making Jobs, that's why all those train making names did not end up insolvent

How about you catch this train and find out for yourself? If you find the train comfortable yourself to sleep on then there's your answer.

@@ChicagolandTransit That may be the funniest reply ever! 🤣

@@ChicagolandTransit He might get arrested by the Chinese and thrown into one of their concentration camp eg Cook County Jail on California.

All the trains have cameras. The Chinese aren't gonna let Americans dirty their new trains.

The train is design to look like the old system for familiarity. The technology is the latest.

Dated so people are familiar. Not all trains are to look like London’s or Paris’ or some Asian trains.