Chicago Metra Action 1992!

[@AlikStansberry]

Great job Walt!

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

Thank you 😊 I'm glad you enjoyed the show.

[@DowntownWithBrown]

There are 2 things in this video that must never be forgotten: 1. The E9s 2. The brass cab car bells

[@BNProductions-vy7mf]

BN E9AMs

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

Thank you for letting us know.

[@BroadwayLTDProductions]

Crazy how almost 30 years later, those F-40’s are STILL in service. And when this video was made some of them were already almost 20 years old!

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

Yeah, they were obviously built to last.

[@q.h.s5051]

Beautiful powerful machines. My favorite Diesel engine of all time

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

I can understand why.

[@superbaddy4]

If only they had just not converted all the Ex-Burlington Cab Cars into coaches! Those bells on them are amazing!

[@oct197.]

Well you still have 8473

[@superbaddy4]

And technically 8509 too, even though it isn't perfectly a match. But the thing is, they're still so hard to come across.

[@oct197.]

@@superbaddy4 well yes, but 8509 has a bronze bell

[@superbaddy4]

The Bronze Bell is still infinite times better than the lame Steel Bells pretty much every other unit has. It's still Second Best behind 8473 no matter what.

[@oct197.]

@@superbaddy4 totally

[@oboyz3848]

I still see some of these old ass engines today O_O

[@dwkcamman611]

Great stuff!

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

I'm glad you're pleased.

[@dwkcamman611]

Love it!

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

😎 Cool.

[@tyhik9338]

Memories

[@mbta1051]

Somewhere in my memory...(pun not intended)

[@theodoretaylor5228]

tbh I really like the way these train cars used to look!

[@QuartiyoPasdevHerjiKreuz]

3:46 I miss that bell sound

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

Me too.

[@youngmoonwalker1987]

@@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos There is only 1 cab car with number 8473 with a brass bell

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

Thank you for letting us know.

[@mitchtube00]

Rip Pullman and Budd cab cars

[@jamaalwashington5309]

Is the locomotive pushing or being pulled?

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

The locomotive is not being pulled. It is indeed pushing from behind, yet the engineer is controlling the train from the cab control car on the front of the pushed train.

[@lukethegeneralelectrice60p80]

Nice old IC Highliners tho kinda pretty obvious to me you havent seen the E9 And some brass bell cab cars tho

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

I just missed the end of the BN E9 era.

[@TheEnglishLongbow]

They were a miserable lot in Illinois in 1992. I didn't see a single passenger wave.

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

:(

[@TheEnglishLongbow]

It was a joke. It's a good video and I enjoyed it.

[@TheEnglishLongbow]

It's actually the cars, or carriages as we call them in England, I'm interested in. We have a pathetic loading gauge here in England that no government has ever addressed. In the long run it has lost us £billions.

[@WaltLoevyActionTrainVideos]

A curious problem, to be sure.