No end date. I'm still filming trains these days.

@@dlcluley okay

Scheduled for 3 weeks from now 😊

@@dlcluley awesome! Is there any video of her pulling that freight train during the making of the movie so they could record her sounds?

@@PeanutsAndSanrioFan I did not catch that move

@@dlcluley that’s sad

@@gp3829 It is an everyday thing. Kenosha Wisconsin built this downtown streetcar loop in 2000. They have 8? Vintage PCC cars, each one is painted in a different historic scheme.

@@dlcluley Hi Dan, thanks for your reply. The Streetcar Loop is a like our Blackpool Trams system, which has about 57 varieties of Tram.

@@toddfeldpausch9489 I've been uploading and scheduling these well in advance, so I just looked at this comment for a good 30 sec wondering what the heck you were talking about before I remembered the Kenosha stuff. 😂

Also, you're not wrong 😂

@@dlcluley Fair enough. 😂

@@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 Were those all ex CNW or did the Rock Island ones get mixed in? Nobody else had smooth side bilevels right?

@@dlcluley This was definitely a time when the Milwaukee District and Union Pacific lines were the trains with colorful passenger trains, as a lot of Milwaukee District North and West Line trains had at least one or two of the silver Pullman coaches on them, and North Central Service trains generally were built with four silver Pullmans behind the locomotive and then a Nippon Sharyo cab car.

The original Addison station was built before Wrigley Field was there, so it was just a small neighborhood stop. Various changes were made over the years to deal with the large baseball crowds, but they finally just completely rebuilt the station in 1994.

@@dlcluley to concrete viaduct instead the wooden platform

If I remember correctly, the Skokie Swift started as sort of an experiment, so I suspect there was the absolute minimum spent to get started. Also, parts of the purple line in Evanston & Wilmette still used overhead wire into the '70s, so it wasn't unfamiliar technology.

@@dlcluley it was set up with the USDOT and the CTA to show off potential for other cities in the post highway era. I do find it surprising though that the infrastructure was maintained post-abandonment in 1963. Most of the interurbans vanished quickly

I agree, but am glad to see that they did not remove the lattice work supports

@@Nvideofilmsproductions The wires stayed in service for a while after I was there, but were removed sometime later in 2004. It was always 3rd rail from Evanston to around Crawford Ave in Skokie. In a couple of the shots you can see the pantographs raising at the switch over point. The CTA used the wire from Crawford to Dempster, and before 1963, when the North Shore Line ran, they used the overhead wires all the way to Milwaukee.

@@dlcluley The block between East Prairie and Crawford in Skokie was equipped with both third rail and overhead catenary. That was the changeover point for both the North Shore Line and the CTA.

@@Nvideofilmsproductions Nope, it ran on the original Santa Fe tracks until 1996. After the Santa Fe & BN merger they built the connector track at Galesburg and changed 3 & 4 to the BN route between Chicago & Galesburg

Every trip was a little different, so you never know what to expect, but next week's video is actually all CTA on the Skokie Swift.

It operates on the Jackson to Lansing route.

Yes it is

Adrian and Blissfield operates it.

Yep they been retired because F40PHM took over