Thanks for the ride.

Cool!

Beautiful!

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It was a crime Mayor Daily putting the North Shore Line out of business because of his actions.Dam Henry Ford and the Model T killing mass transit in this country.😢😢

Dude..... North Shore Line AND Tommy Dorsey or is it Glenn Miller? My father loved the NSL....he grew up with it.... My mother and father both loved the big bands! My parents are both gone now. This little video is ripping my heart out....😢

Absolutely stunning I grew up in the Bronx and remember when the 3rd Avenue el was torn down. Wonderful job, great video.

I wonder if the people of Detroit & Minneapolis have had a 20-year mourning for Hudson's & Dayton's?

Nice video, well filmed. I saw this layout in action today, and was much impressed with the quality and functionality of the modules, and the skill of the builder and wire assemblers. I'm glad that this layout continues to be shown, as it is unique yet very reflective of the nation's past public transit. Thanks for introducing me to your traction group!

Beautiful layout, very nicely done track work. Would love to see some more footage at prototypical speeds.

Nice video and very good music! I enjoyed it! ;)

Im retired now, but as a young boy my grandmother took me, my 2 sisters and my mom to marshal fields after thanksgiving for shopping and dinner in the big dining room with the humongous tree with uncle mistletoe on top. to a child it was something I'll never forget.

How many hundreds and hundreds of hours did it take to put all those decorations up?! and how many to take down?!

Wasn't the Electroliner's bell (or gong if you prefer) air operated originally?

All of the classy department stores had restaurants. Abraham & Strauss, Hahne's, Bamberger's, Hess's, Marshall Field's, etc. Beautiful little cafes, with linen table cloths and crystal chandeliers. Going to one of these stores meant getting dressed up, wearing your best hat and gloves. Such a shame it's all gone.

Great video. I was trying to find the point where its been decided to switch from overhead catenary power to onboard 12v battery power? Around the 9:35 I think it's still on overhead, but then when loading onto the old truck I see a pile of batteries removed? Cheers =)

Look at the crowds in the Loop! Now its dead

Looks Like alot of work It must be a blast to run,...Great!

Thank you for this. I was born in the City of Chicago in 1951 and this was my absolute favorite place to shop all year long not just at the splendid Christmas Time. Moved to the San Francisco area in 1987 and was so disappointed in Macys. It was and still is absolutely soulless. When I heard that Macys was taking taking over Fields in Chicago I knew it was the beginning of the end. I simply had no idea how destructive Macys would be. Upon subsequent visits to Chicago after 2005 I noticed that the State St. store had begun to be desconstructed. Now all I have are the memories and a few lovely things like this video.

Send Macy's back to New York. Fields belongs to Chicago.

I have a huge lump in my throat. Oh how I miss this store and the opportunity to make more memories.😢

The hot chocolate at Marshall Fields was soooooo good ...yummy to the tummy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🕊️ candy display ✌🏾

I know this is an old video but it gives me some ideas for my layout... Awesome!

This electroliner would be for me reason visit the usa.

Chicago just isn’t the city it was without Marshall Fields!

Well done brother in law Bob Olson ... amazing the thousands of hours of design and hard labor building the railroad and street car!

And wasn’t there a Marshal Fields cookie too?

Where do I begin? Thank you for this amazing video! How or where you got the footage is a minor miracle! I worked in retail for many happy years, I had such fond memories of the big stores and their Christmas windows, the wonderful things that were sold there and the fantastic restaurants, the customer service and how everything was so much nicer and sweeter. Heart breaking what has been done to such a beautiful business that was incredibly profitable not just in money but in the good feelings that were created long ago by the talented artists/employees that spent long hours creating the “magic”. If I could turn back time or sign a petition anything for just one more Christmas like that 🎄🥂🍾🛷⛸️🎠🧸❣️

Does anyone no if this layout still exist?

Reminiscent of the geourgeous animated Christmas window displays in New York city. Magical and exciting, especially to a child.

Life was so much better back then 😊

Oh, my!! How nice to go along for the ride ... again! I grew up in Racine and one house was about a block away from the North Shore Line ... really liked watching the trains go by, and of course, going to Milwaukee and Chicago on one. Thanks for posting!! [Greetings from Tucson where we do have 8 Amtrak trains/week.]

My compliments to IRM! 801-802 looks fantastic and everyone who has been involved in the restoration of this train has justified reasons to be proud. Having been involved with the troubleshooting, repair parts sourcing, and repair work to make sister train 803-804 operable (in a very limited fashion) a decade ago, I can really appreciate how much work it must have taken for IRM’s team to get this far. Well done!

Thanks! Great video.

Thanks for a great ride, Electropickle! It has been over sixty-five years since I rode with a friend to Milwaukee and back. Oh yes, Electroburgers were enjoyed! The Electroliner looks great!

Sadly I was on vacation with family that day, otherwise I would have rode. Awesome video!

Very very cool intro graphics !! Just loved it ! Thanks for the neat ride. James.

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I had to do a double take, thought it was a real full sized car until i saw the shadows on the sky and the hand😂, great video

"Autumn in New York"

I grew up in Brooklyn during the '40s and have memories of riding the els and trolleys that crossed the city at that time. My father rode the Ocean Av line into downtown Brooklyn (yes, Brooklyn had a vibrant downtown), that line used PCC cars unlike the Flatbush Av line that used older cars, the line on Cortelyou Av used trolleybuses. I remember the steetcars in Manhattan, they use an underground system much like Washington DC. I have ridden the tram system in many European cities and note that the folks in East Berlin voted to keep their trams and not have a subway like West Berlin. During the late '40s my father took me for an extended ride on the 3rd Av el before they took it down, wood cars with open vestibules. My father had grown up in Ridgewood NJ and often talked about riding the Public Service interurbans there, seems like NJ is slowly trying to build this system back. I was ported in Boston during my service years and rode the lines in that city, trolleys were a fun way of getting around but they don't mix well with auto traffic, was much of that during the 40s due to fuel rationing due to WW2. Thanks for keeping these memories alive.

A treasure never to appear again! A shame really. Thank you posting. It’s a great memory

To heck with the house I just want to buy the basement.😂

Eric bronski I remember his name from the article and model railroader magazine saying farewell to the old El. Model railroader with such a great magazine in the old days.

I would buy the house just to get the layout in the basement 😂

Damn I want to build something like this in my home when I am older

Electropickle, can I have your permission to use about 30 seconds of this video in my virtual video tour of Chicago? The elevator operator refused to let me take a picture of him operating the elevator. Thank you.

I watched a Betty Boop cartoon from the 1930s it was called too much noise. She lived in an apartment right by the Third Avenue L in New York. The artwork was fantastic. The elevated structure is very complicated but it was drawn accurately. They also accurately Through the Wood cars with the lamps on the roof like like the kind that used to run on 3rd Avenue elevated train. When I lived in New York if the train did not go there it was not worth going. How stupid they were to scrap all of the elevated lines as well as the streetcars. In my neighborhood where the asphalt had worn away you can see the original cobblestones with the streetcar tracks still there. One time when I was a little kid I took the elevated train to trainworld in Brooklyn and talked trains with Frank Sinatra who was a toy train buff. He may have been a movie star but to me he was just another trainguy of course I was just a young boy and I did not know he was a famous person. From the second story of our home you can see the elevated trains coming and going. New York was still nice in the old days until it died

What a cute little train

Wow! This is tremendous! Is that actually an electrified third rail with trains that have a boot on the wheel sets that connects with that electrically? If so that's REALLY cool!