BNSF GP30 in Chicago Pilson Neighborhood switching and chase

[@Ferrocarril_Chicago]

For the past few years, I've been going into Pilsen almost every week for music classes. Benito Juarez specifically which is right there on Cermak and even appeared in this video. I've always wanted to catch a train serving that line but sure enough I see the tracks being pulled up before even getting an opportunity to see anything... You were lucky to have an opportunity to capture this footage.

[@RyanDrake371]

That is one fantastic locomotive, glad BNSF saved it!! Thanks for sharing!

[@sillydude674]

yeah me too. they save most of their old locomotives but just repaint them to the current scheme

[@ejd715]

sad to see those Central Illinois switchers just rotting away on a siding

[@MidwesternRailfan]

Well they looked shiny. Probably just being stored there.

[@rickyrodriguez9172]

@@MidwesternRailfan sadly they're no longer there as the tracks have been removed.

[@Kylestrains93]

🎉rhghhhjji hhh ú777😮88

[@chinchinzero]

GREAT sounding horn! That loco looks brand new!

[@peters1127]

Thanks for the memory, I was born in an apartment on the corner of 18th and Hoyne. In the 50's and mid 60's I would walk up the Ramp/ Driveway of the Western Ave switcher office and was always greeted very well. I took a ride down with a SW or NW switchers from the main level to the back alleys of 17th street and we did some switching of Grain cars from the small Grainery on 17th and Damen. Now an Apartment complex. I went to grammar school on 18th place and Paulina St. Vitus and for couple of years (1958-59) me and sometime a friend during lunch time would run to what we called the Three Way. Cermak, Ashland and Blue Island, and watch the switching and traffic mess it caused. My engineer friends from Westen Ave would sometimes be able to give me a list of times switching would be going on at that location. I would take Kodak 8mm movie camera and record all that I could. Sadly, all movies were lost in a move while I was in Nam. I worked at H. Kramer 21st and Loomis for a while and they had metal scrap loads delivered from the Q and sometimes a full load of Brass, Broze and Aluminum Ingots to ship out. I see just a small area left open on the route to Cermak rd. 2007 google still shows the tracks in the street. Thanks again.

[@jamesdmehl]

What a great catch, that old 30 looks fabulous in the new paint, thank you for posting!

[@mattwalsh6347]

Awesome video! Nice paint job on that locomotive!

[@Chicagojoe28]

+Mike Walsh Thanks!

[@rythym2347]

I sure wish I could have seen the rail road for this area back in the day when ALL the industries had rail service.

[@ersolios]

Im glad you recorded this because those tracks a long gone

[@WideWorldofTrains]

Thats about the cleanest looking Locomotive I have seen

[@bertxblitzkrieg]

beautiful locomotive, and that's gotta be the best K3 I've ever heard

[@Chicagojoe28]

Haha yup! There are tons of little industrial lines/sidings in chicago. theyre pretty awesome if you can find them!

[@fredsbook]

Thanks for a great series of shots of this crew working the crowded tracks. You must know the area quit well to keep up with the crew.

[@mwilliams6242]

I love all of the crossing! I will most definitely go to this area when I am in Chicago.

[@stevenmichael2845]

Oh, so BNSF keeps their GP30s and scraps their Dash 8s! I see how it is!

[@brendaneckhart9376]

GP30's have more appeal to most train fanatics.

[@AtTheTowerYT]

@@brendaneckhart9376 Plus Geep girls are always and have always been stronger together :)

[@reesecole2031]

EMD locomotives tend to out live GE and Alco locomotive

[@michaelspoor6919]

Dash 8s are junk. The GP39Ms are from 1989.

[@arlingtontrains7]

freaking fresh paint job on that unit!!:D

[@romeruno]

the only time i see trains are when im driving, and theyre usually unwelcome. this train is near my house & ive actually been stopped in traffic by this train. this video gives it a very majestic look. this is a very simple video, but i have come to respect trains more because of it. nice work.

[@b747guy9]

A clean engine in America? Hard to believe!

[@inels100]

ok thanks i thought they were going to us them on some of there train but i thing they should be a show with them on that line and nice video

[@sailormoonlover6618]

impressive catch, nice paint job too.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thanks!

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thanks

[@johnmeadows5645]

Looks like a shiny new locomotive.

[@brucewallace4337]

I used to work in Pilsen on Blue Island Ave and the BN Tracks were directly behind the building I remember seeing one day a very strange double header on that Branch of a SD9 & SW1500. For an engine built in 1965 or about it looks absolutely incredible I believe most of these rebuilds were of GN Heritage and a few other RR's but correct me if I am wrong

[@HyperActive7]

I really have a thing for industrial local switching and Chicago is probably one of the best places in this United States to watch video of it. I'd love to work that job!

[@easyamp123]

not only in the desc, it's right on the side of the loco in big letters GP39-2R. nice catch and man oh man is that paint sweet. looks like a toy it's so clean

[@USRoute66]

Excellent video!

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thanks!

[@STiGuy]

Cool to see the Class 1 BNSF running deep in the heart of Chicago

[@rodsmith7211]

This is such a neat video!!! Going into my favorites

[@pwalpar]

awesome video and one fine looking GP39-2r

[@trainOholic]

wow, that horn is amazing! great video!!

[@MrMocha413]

Nice video, this job runs only one to three times a week now that there are three customers along the "Lumber District Spur." That locomotive is a GP30 that probably went to the BNSF Topeka Shop to be repainted. Enjoy seeing this job run as it will probably be discontinued south of Sims Metal very soon.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Yup its an rebuild that the BN did, and Yah I wish that BNSF would have kept more in BN or ATSF colors.

[@incidious13]

It appears freshly painted at that time... I wonder when they rebuilt it.

[@mariusz07100]

Super film !!!!

[@patricknoveski6409]

I hope that little car paid hefty fine! 🤣

[@duxberry1958]

Top Video Chicagojoe

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thanks! nothing bad has ever happened to me or my friends. But I wouldn't stick around much after dark.

[@bailey111700]

Fresh coat of paint. Life is goo for that train.

[@jeremybrinkman8538]

That's a nice engine to be in the good of Chicago

[@masovik4942]

From a guy who is tangentially familiar with big corporate mergers, the smartest thing BNSF did was create a new logo and color scheme. In a merger, the staffs of the two merging companies are always skeptical, jealous, and nervous about who's going to run this and that, and who's the new boss (and was he or she BN or SF?). Creating a new identity is one good way of countering that natural anxiety. It also alerts customers of new opportunities.

[@MidwesternRailfan]

Ah I see why 2815 has a unique cab. Usually GP39s have normal cabs but 2815 was a rebuild from a GP30 so the cab looks like that.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thanks! They use it up untill the old CIRY compound. So about a mile to half a mile of track. The old CIRY engines have been sold and taken away. Thanks!

[@tcp3059]

Can't say I blame the guy for blaring that horn like that. Numbnuts parking so close to the tracks pisses me off.

[@tcp3059]

Not to say that it wasn't obnoxious.

[@Lightwolf333]

Great video of some switching action here man.

[@htc6600]

Magnificent horn.

[@jasonpetersrailadventures]

Cool

[@brandonkoole655]

I would hate to be on a train with industrial switching duties in the Chicago suburbs

[@MrMocha413]

:-) I work for BNSF out of Cicero Yard...a foamer as well. Nice vids!

[@megatrains]

Just subscribed!! Awesome video!!!!!!!!

[@Chicagojoe28]

@romeruno thanks! Glad you liked it. Trains are actually kind of interesting once you get into it.

[@MrMocha413]

This is the Y CHC105 job servicing the "Lumber District," a spur track off the BNSF's Chicago Subdivision. There are currently three industries along the route that are currently serviced in the "District." BNSF uses old road locomotives including the GP's and Dash 8's for yard service.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Cool, but wow ive never seen a -8 on that line before.

[@MrMocha413]

I think they're too heavy for the rail in the District, sorry for the misinfo!

[@WindyCityRails]

MrMocha413 Do you know if this spur is still used, and if so, how often?

[@louislokuta9617]

A dash 8? For yard service? Eeek.....

[@WVTougeRacer]

i liked the original santa fe super chief paint scheme (warbonnet) from the 50's

[@MrZkr123]

I spy an SW900 at 9:00

[@dron733]

IIII LLLOOOVVVEE THAT HORN!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Almoekd1971]

Great video, I like shooting the industry stuff. Suprised though the crew didn't tell you to leave being that close.

[@rythym2347]

Hey Chicago Joe do you know Rich Hill? Both Rich & myself have all over mapping out industrial track & rail fanning. i.e. Goose island Elk grove Bensenville & many more. Rich has made video of the Elk grove industrial park.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Ive never met him

[@Chicagojoe28]

yah they do run, but as of now one is still sitting there, and one is at a grain mill or something west. They are the old CIRY power.

[@Chicagojoe28]

@inels100 Those are 2 old CIRY switchers. They went out of business in 2010.

[@lionel153]

Cool video .

[@williamyoung6715]

That is a beatiful GP39

[@BonsonJ]

This is a really good video. I like big city industrial railroading. However, I have to question the mental integrity of the engineer while sopped at that crossing and repeatly laying down on the horns while the conductor was flagging traffic across. That's psychotic behavior man! Thanks again for a great video.

[@SouthShoreTrain]

Nice video!

[@rickyrodriguez9172]

Really rare footage. Sadly the tracks have been removed east of Ashland.

[@Cprailf]

for the guy to come out and pull his car off the way .. 16:39 Big UP Normel MSG FL

[@Chicagojoe28]

@BonsonJ haha, yah it was cool to see but worried some people. he was just pissed because Almost every day they run, there is a car parked on the tracks, and it delays them big time. He honked the horn to trr to get the person.

[@easternroutemainlinevideos6823]

Im guessing this was trying to get ower to come move his car? 14:05 to 16:05

[@fredthompson7465]

Why is this brand new BNSF doing GETTO YARD WORK??

[@easternroutemainlinevideos6823]

who knows?? its awesome!!:)

[@LeParkourJaci]

Great video!!! Greetings from Polish.

[@patricknoveski6409]

Is this line still in service? Reminds me of San fernando valley in the 50s,60s.😵

[@robertgift]

16:10 Would the train have hit? Or just close? Could the mirror be folded in? Driver moved? Enough people there to physically move the car. We did.

[@05Forenza]

Now THAT is a horn! lol

[@Chicagojoe28]

True! It was a great color combo.

[@AtsfMike559]

It definitely is not a Leslie RSL3L. The Leslies had a melodic sound, not a Gabriel's Trumpet Blast, like this and all the newer locomotives seem to have nowadays. Would have been nice if they had kept the old Leslie that Santa Fe had on these. MIke in Fresno, Ca

[@P32-8BWH]

Actually thats a rebuilt GP30

[@brakemanben6772]

I know this video is old and everything, but noticed that under that cab it says that it is a GP39R-2 :)

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thank you!

[@OwenConcorde]

I didn't know some GP30s are still in service!

[@Nitsujy12345]

its a GP39-2R locomotive. its weird though, i searched BNSF GP39-2R and all of them had high-lights. this one has lights on the nose

[@Z4Zander]

Listed on BNSF roster as GP39M.

[@bradfordthompson8326]

Oh add on to my prior commitments...including customers every 4 months

[@Chicagojoe28]

@toorivers Thanks! yah its a side of BNSF that a lot of people dont see.

[@vietvet68100]

That sure is a good looking loco,I think i going to buy one in ho on ebay.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Wow. I did not know that. and thanks!

[@Chicagojoe28]

Well it was a pretty tight curve so the Boxcar would not have been directly over the tracks and would have snagged the car.

[@Chicagojoe28]

Yes. Those belonged to the CIRY.

[@FishplateFilms]

Brilliant video mate!, too many good points to comment on!!,but how close was that Jeep to that boxcar?,that'd be a funny insurance claim!! Thanks for sharing.

[@markarrivi3818]

Illinois Law States That A Horn must be sounded throughout every intersection that they cross

[@Chicagojoe28]

Thanks!

[@Chicagojoe28]

@SouthShoreTrain thanks!!

[@atsfupsp09]

Okay so exactly what was the deal at 14:00 to 17:00? I get that the car isn't suppose to be there, but they had enough clearance it looked like. I don't know just let me know what I was all about.

[@Chicagojoe28]

haha. The owners friend came and picked it up.

[@Chicagojoe28]

@kmeluso Thanks! Just the HD Flip and a generic tripod.

[@TIMMEH19991]

Great video, thanks for posting. How much of CIRYs Cermak railroad system is still in use? and whats happeneing to 1208 and 1209? have they just been abandoned since CIRY went tits up? I'd love to see the street railroad action over there, but I'm stuck in the UK where there's no street running at all anymore.

[@rythym2347]

Has anybody noticed the crossing bells don't start to ring until the train is right on top of the crossing?

[@louislokuta9617]

Seems they are all set for center circuit..............

[@spaceage1060]

What time of the day do they usually run? Ik the tracks after the first crossing are gone, but there are still industries before it. Asking because I'm usually there in the morning, like you said.

[@Chicagojoe28]

hahah! yah that would be great! thanks dude!

[@TheMysteriousRock]

No that noise!

[@Chicagojoe28]

@BonsonJ hah sure thing! Thanks for the comment!

[@iggyjill]

Why was they blowing the horn for 2 minutes straight at 14 to 1600?

[@Chicagojoe28]

@Trainmaster189 I know! I saw surprised too!

[@Chicagojoe28]

@pwalpar thank you!

[@tommy4trains]

the SW9's at 11:46 do they still operate?

[@cnrailfan8000]

what is on top of the 3rd crossing