I would say more like a ferry boat.

This was never electrified. Steam locomotives, yes. Before diesel locomotives some railroads used battery or gas powered road vehicles with couplers in places like this. PRR and B&O in the east are some examples.

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Raymond Aragon Diaz: III think an electric light rail trolley line should be built on this right-of-way to serve Navy Pier, Streeterville, and run along the Lakefront to serve McCormick Place, Shedd Aquarium, Museum Of Science and Industry, and the Art Institute.

​@@albertcarello619 actually no, it's becoming an extention of the Bloomingdale trail

Little 800 hp switcher

+Vic Reece Im not sure, Trains should always have the right of way, but some RR's like the South shore passenger service sometimes stop for traffic signals.

+Chicagojoe28 The south shore for example has influence over the 11th street light cycle. but when that is out of order, they generally do follow traffic protocol

trains have their own signals to obey, but they do not pay any attention to traffic signals for road vehicles. in other words, during street running maneuvers, the train always has right of way because it can't stop very quickly.

So if there was a 4-way stop sign somewhere, the train, regardless of who stopped first at the 4-way stop sign, would have the right of way and would go through the intersection first?

yes

Thanks! As far as I know the line is still in use. But the job is hard to catch.

Line is technically still in use, but the train never runs it. Last run was in late 2014.

Bionicle Studios 55 they just removed tankers from the line. it was in October of 2017. So I assume it's a storage line.

Much of it was being ripped out in 2020.

As of 2023, the entire railroad is no longer in use.

It's an EMD 567 something or other, definitely fewer than 16 cylinders.

@@MilwaukeeF40C 8 cylinder 800 hp

That bridge moves.

The one at the very end I know for sure does as there's video here on YT of it being closed to allow traffic to cross. Not sure on the truss bridge at the beginning as I remember seeing that bridge as a kid in the 70s with a huge counterweight on the North Avenue side that seems to have been removed and I know one of the up or down stream road bridges was replaced with a non movable span and other of the bascule bridges have had the traffic control gates and lights removed so the first one may be fixed and straight railed.

And Paved over at the bridge on North ave the end of an Era

Im not sure. I haven't seen them in a few years. its very random.

yah these guys are hard workers. Check out my video of them running in the winter.

J.D. Larson Thanks

+J.D. Larson I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about how do i get a job with the railroad try Debuncar Railroad Jobs Aid ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my cousin got cool success with it.

those kinds of horns Wabco E2 horns were common on diesels SW 8 etc and Leslie A200 should be used around the world

Classic early diesel horn.