Fantastic video! I would see these express trains thunder thru our commuter station once a day as a child, but was always told they were "probably club cars". If only the 400s were still around!

It’s quite amazing that 4960 still operates today in Arizona

The leading loco is 5014A

What a wonderful time that was! I remember those bi-level cars and also I remember the big C&NW station at Milwaukee. Life was really great back then. No knee-grows anywhere in sight. Things were clean. No graffitti and garbage all around like it is now. Folks, we must get back to that! We whites simply CANNOT CONTINUE TO ALLOW the Nay-Garr hoards to take over and utterly destroy what we have built! Seeing this old film makes it really clear how bad things have gotten since that time. NeyGarrs, it is for you!

The 400 operated until its ending on 4/30/1971.AMTRAK began the very next day & has been since.

This video reminds me of taking the C&NW as a kid to go see my grandparents in Milwaukee. Thanks for posting!

The 4000 SERIES BALDIES only saw brief service on the Lake Street L when in total consists after complete elevation October 28 1962.

The Great Chicago northwestern 😊

I remember the 4000s on the Evanston Express.

🤔🤨 ~ I worked "Gandy Dancing" for both railroads in the 1970s, On the Milwaukee rebuilding track up Pipestone Pass for them to use as a demonstration track for prospective buyers, and on the BA&P in the pit. Yup❕😅‼

We go see come in at night in Escanaba mich it would come in about 11 pm could see that light comeing way down the line spooky looking in the dark light swing back an forth

What did say 400 - 400 miles -400 miles an hour something like that ?

That's the 400---400 miles -

Cool.

Thank you, Gerry, for this. I remember them all.

Thanks for posting!

Imagine if we still had electric power in Montana and Idaho …

I used to take these trains from Lac du Flambeau to Chicago - mid 60s. Were there always so few cars? I can't really remember. If I recall, one of the cars was a diner (?)

Would love to be able to talk to you about using this footage in a Video project I'm doing of this very train being loaded at circus world museum in 1966

No Sound ?

These trains are the Valley and the Shoreland 400. It went as far as Minomiee Michigan and with no Wye or turntable. The Locomotives had to be back to back.

What a fantastic video of the 400. Would love to have someone add sound to it...

1:15 does the bridge still exist?

Update: I hereby declare this the best video on all of youtube.

Did the train originate from Chicago? And did it stop in Fond du Lac Wisconsin?

wow! the electrification that inspired the "new" Italian DC system 3000 V. First line electrified was Benevento-Foggia in 1927, with E 625 and E 626 Bo'BoBo' locos (2-2-2)

Chicago to Council Bluffs two main track ATC at this time so that isn't the KS 400.

Cant be the Kate. As someone mentioned, the Omaha line was double tracked and was ATC. There were no intermediate block signals in ATC territory, only at the interlockings and approaches to them. Second, not a train north of Green Bay since the line north of GB was not signaled.

The second run by was too close to see how many cars. But at least we have some rare C&NW footage. IMO it seems like engine overkill for so few cars. But perhaps 2, possibly old, weak E units were regularly assigned the Kate, regardless of the consist size, just to be sure.

Notice that he entirely left out the sign of the long-gone Woodruff station.

Crossing at 2:30ish looks to be Caledonia Street just west of Excelsior. Anselmo is the mine in the background. Caledonia was busy enough to have a traffic light once upon a time; and Excelsior had crossing signals but no gates up to when the tracks were torn up. 3:05 is westbound; that looks like the Mountain Consolidated. at 3:40 to 4:07 that is near the Badger Mine; looks like they are hauling ore from the Badger area.

I from am a younger generation. how long did the 4000s exist on the CTA? I was a young boy in the 70s and I remember them run across the Granville stop back in the day.

Do they still ever use these cars

When the circus train is from barboo it’s going to Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1963 and 1964.

What is the consist of this train?

I witnessed this many times. My dad was a clerk for the C&O railroad for 30 years

Nice upload but to bad there is no sound.

Wonderful time travel!

When things clear up, I must go Chicago to ride their subway system! I've ridden virtually on KZbin but I want to experience the beautiful city live and in person! This New Yorker loves Chicago!

Love seeing vintage subway trains; rolling history!

I found out from one of the employees at the GCRY that the headlight had to be moved down because of regulations.

Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy 4960 was pulling the circus train.

The bridge across the C&NW trains at Clinton was replaced in later years with a through girder bridge. Unfortunately, the girders are pretty high making it hard to look down on the tracks underneath or see the train shed that now has the "Ogilvie Transportation Center" tall glass building where the C&NW depot head house once stood.

Excellent!

Those circus trains were magical. When I was waiting to go to work about 20 years ago, I saw one go by the the dark of the morning. Even as an adult I felt happy seeing that train.

Growing up near Lac du Flambeau, I remember seeing this train all the time. Looks like all the tracks are gone as well as the station which was at Hwy H and Pokegema Trail.

Note the first and fourth car of the train at 0:55. The first one is a tap lounge baggage car, the fourth being a diner. They actually aren't bi-level coaches, but actually single level cars to match the bi-levels.

Thanks for posting this! :)

How man C&NW passengers trains ran Back in the Day?

1963 was the year my family began summer vacationing up in the North Woods. I once caught an all-too-brief glimpse of the Flambeau 400 making its station stop in Woodruff as we were returning from Rhinelander on State Highway 47 which paralleled the C&NW line. (Dad had driven us kids over there to see the Hodag.) Never got to ride her, though. Surprising how many people were still using the train back in '63, at least during the summer season. I'm guessing there is no public transportation at all in this neck of the woods today, not even a bus.