Chicago Odyssey Volume2 Part2

[@lablaine1981]

Green frog+ Emery+music+narration is the best I've purchased in 50 yrs,bought 25 videos from 1990 on...always the best...80 yr old railfan in MN 🥶

[@wesleyhymbaugh1450]

Chicago Odyssey Volume 2 Part 2 Is Great Watching it on my phone

[@richardfoster9499]

The rock island is one of my favorite railroads, long gone before my time. Wish I could have seen them in action.

[@MrBNARick]

Pretty neat to see at 7:47 the Sears tower under construction.

[@GuyjKite]

Great video of when railroading was railroading.

[@mattanderson6336]

0:50-Cabooses were still alive!

[@David-dg5ty]

Great, intriguing cinematography in some of the footage.

[@kentfrederick8929]

It's so strange seeing the Sears Tower only half finished and the Standard Oil Building still having it's original marble cladding installed.

[@charlesdell2864]

Awesome to see the older films that show trains with a caboose at the end.

[@BNforever2009]

the 3rd unit on that IC piggyback is a rare GP-40X #3075. That was destroyed in a wreck later on, short lived.

[@iancontreras7688]

Yeah, the view of the eastbound IC transfer (1:03) is indeed crossing the Sanitary and Shipping Canal, but that is nowhere near Forest Park, IL. This spot is called Bridgeport in modern terms. This is where the GM&O crosses the IC Iowa Division. Note the GM&O engines in the distance as the IC train passes.

[@goldenmanuever1176]

OMG thank god. I researched that for hours on Google maps...I was like WTF is this guy talking about....the SSC doesn't go anywhere near Forest Park!!!!!

[@mattanderson6336]

9:00-Is that the BN business car Mississippi River bringing up the rear on that commuter train?

[@nossta5242]

The history is Chicago suprises me.

[@carlvitko1355]

I remember that Enterprise Paint building along the Stevenson.

[@uhlijohn]

That IC switcher is crossing the Sanitary & Ship Canal at Forest View, not Forest Park. The canal is no where near Forest Park.

[@TheIronAirship]

That Illinois Central Switch train is not crossing the Chicago and Sanitary Ship Canal at Forest Park. It is Crossing the CSSC at Archer Avenue near South Ashland Avenue at the Brighton Park Junction on the Galena Line of the old Chicago & Madison Northern Line.

[@uhlijohn]

The Burlington freight train was not at Cicero Hawthorne Yard. That was a transfer train on the old PRR south of Chicago Loop. See the skyscraper in the background? See the PRR signals over the tracks? Those are not Burlington's style of signals. The Burlington used "searchlight" type standard signals.

[@bgmcc907]

As someone who worked for BN in Cicero, I knew that couldn’t have been right. Thanks for the correction.

[@armageddon1981]

Well that belongs to CN now...wow. I'm talking about the ICG line.

[@iancontreras7688]

@howardkevinm The Panama Limited pictured at 16th Street is using the exact alignment that Amtrak uses today. Everything in those frames are still there today.

[@BNforever2009]

That Panama Ltd was awesome. I never got to see that when i was little. Wonder if Amtrak will bring that back in the future?

[@uhlijohn]

The Sanitiary & Ship Canal is no where near Forest Park. It is near Forest View!

[@DjFreemode]

@Amtrak1194 the rock island was one that did not join amtrak when it started in 1971.

[@fredpohl5202]

I was in Germany at the time I missed out. on some real neat stuff when I came home on leave I was too focusef on the NE Corridpr

[@fredpohl5202]

Awesome stuff

[@BenAliGtor]

@Amtrak1194 Rode the Panama Limited from 1972 on quite regularly, and took a trip east on the George Washington, CHI-DC, I also took a few trips north of Chicago on the old Empire Builder. The equipment was railfan interesting back then, but always crowded, lots of malfunctioning, and the crews were lazy and surly. Amtrak now is a VAST improvement over those "good old days", in my opinion. Remember, Nixon initiated Railpax to kill intercity rail travel, but Amtrak became a modern railroad.

[@fredericbouh4955]

Where There any queue signal on the train? Any red light at the end to show the train is complete when passing?

[@ronthecyborg]

4:26 - interesting horn. You don't hear stuff like that on todays diesels.

[@MrPinstripes]

Sounds like a boat horn

[@showboardguy6048]

I cant get over how dirt everything is, ESPECIALLY the air. Eek!

[@LotusbandicootRR]

Passenger trains were a LOT longer back then!

[@stuew6]

Rainbow era locomotives look good

[@BenAliGtor]

@BNforever2009 I rode the Panama (Amtrak) several times. Even though I'd only travel as far as Mattoon, I'd always book a roomette, because the coaches were so scummy.College kids to Kankakee, Champaign and Carbondale, as well as enlisted military going to Rantoul---well worth the price (about ten bucks or so) for a little peace, quiet .and privacy.

[@BNforever2009]

would be nice if Amtrak resurrected this train but even the City of New Orleans train now is not getting enough riders.

[@kevinhoward9593]

2:06 Clearly PRR signals on the right.

[@LotusbandicootRR]

Also, it's strange seeing the Sears Tower not being fully constructed around 8:20!

[@Hellodarknessmyolefriend]

You dont see switchers being made anymore.

[@Dakotajohnboy]

0:18 The IC's only SD45! Wow I have only seen one picture of this unit! Wish i could have seen it in action. Great catch. Sad to see the IC fall to CN. Slowly they are taking over all the railroads i hold dear. IC, EJ&E, DM&I. Now all i have to look at is the Bloomer line to see what it must have been like in those days with slow moving GP's. Even KB&S replaced the ALCO's with GP's. Sad these changing times.

[@billdougan4022]

It could be IC GP-40x 3075, which had flared radiators too.

[@ronthecyborg]

I'm aware that this isn't "live" sound. however, the sounds used were obviously recorded during that time period. I was just stating that you probably won't hear a horn like that on a modern-day diesel.

[@fredpohl5202]

A guy can still Have a field day here

[@nikkilearakos7411]

Johnny T did you mean DT&I when you said DM&I? CN did take over the DT&I

[@nikkibreedlove5359]

union pacfic was in volumue 1 so what about it

[@pentium4guy639]

thw willis company bought it

[@nikkibreedlove5359]

cats rock too i love cats

[@nikkibreedlove5359]

what about union pacific

[@GeneralInverno]

4:26

[@mbwolf61]

I really miss the days before thug vandals spray- painted trains and some people actually consider it art.