Today we are riding Metra train 8520 from Blue Island station to Millenium station with an amazing front view of the window.
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@pilsudski363 ай бұрын
IC/METRA Electric: Best commuter rail service anywhere!
@timothynoel7867 ай бұрын
One of the most "rustic" of Metra lines. Thanks for posting!
@patrickcalabro87185 ай бұрын
This has to be the widest right of way I have ever seen! thanks 🚩
@Aliencookies2024Ай бұрын
Nice full camera and video
@Anthony2959-h5x6 ай бұрын
That was fantastic if I visited Chicago I hope that the first train I ride on it's seems like fun.
@JoeyLovesTrains7 ай бұрын
Must’ve been crowded to go in on the south shore tracks, and then get right up close to another train
@briansivley20017 ай бұрын
Yeah this is the first time I've ever seen this happen 🤨🤨🤨🤨.
@cliftonrobinson11796 ай бұрын
Metra Conductor here, and I actually work on the Electric District. On select weekends at Millennium Station (Randolph St./South Water St.), Metra trains utilize the South Shore Depot due to maintenance being performed in the Metra Depot rendering tracks out of service. During the week of scheduled weekend maintenance, signs are posted in both the South Shore and Metra Depot stating that Metra trains will utilize the South Shore Depot over the coming weekend. The Metra train in this video is #8520 which is a 2-Car Consist, this train pulled into Millennium Station (South Shore Depot Side) behind another 2-Car Consist already on Track 11 which is a 6-Car Island Platform, the platforms in both the South Shore Depot and Metra Depot don’t offer a lot of wiggle room so to speak, meaning engineers have to pull up close to the bumping post or, as seen in this video, pull up close behind equipment already sitting at the platform, in order to properly spot all the doors on the platform and make room for any other equipment that may pull up behind them. So once again 2-Cars were already sitting on Track 11 when this Train #8520 (2-Cars) pulled in, so when the engineer pulls this close behind sitting equipment this leaves room for 2 more Cars to pull in on Track 11 which then Track 11 would be at its 6-Car capacity. If the Millennium Station Depot Tracks were let’s say as long as the Depot Tracks at Chicago Union Station then our engineers wouldn’t need to pull so closely to the bumping post and/or pull up so closely behind sitting equipment.
@keyshawnscott125 ай бұрын
@@cliftonrobinson1179 So your saying this was only a 2 car train not a 4 car train
@cliftonrobinson11794 ай бұрын
@@keyshawnscott12 correct
@kevinmiller837 ай бұрын
Awesome
@tyhik93387 ай бұрын
Nice
@JohnJones-xf9pd3 ай бұрын
I was in Chicago for Christmas
@GTFilms36365 ай бұрын
Nice Graham White Electronic Bell 😀
@JohnJones-xf9pd4 ай бұрын
I was at Chicago for Christmas
@GTFilms36364 ай бұрын
@@JohnJones-xf9pdcool John 😀👍
@PikalaxALT6 ай бұрын
it's so bizarre to hear the mbta tts lady on this service
@reallifechronicles17072 ай бұрын
lol yeah
@hawktb96 ай бұрын
Was this a K5LA horn on this EMU? It sounds funky. :)
@tyhik93387 ай бұрын
Do you have any more Metra electric videos?
@Moharagareal4 ай бұрын
The bell is irritating
@anthonystrains16723 ай бұрын
Not really much I can do about it
@user-lq4mo8dw1p4 ай бұрын
What kinda cab car is this?, my father worked on BN and i used to go to work with him and ride with the engineer ....i remember being higher then this....also here no radio chatter....
@anthonystrains16724 ай бұрын
This is the gallery car but I was on the bottom level since there’s a window you can see out of
@user-lq4mo8dw1p4 ай бұрын
@@anthonystrains1672 ah, I don't live in Chicago anymore, was just curious if they got newer cars that sat lower
@jeffreywillemsen19584 ай бұрын
The switch was not in the correct position at 7:57 or is it spring loaded?
@anthonystrains16724 ай бұрын
They are spring switches
@theovvugt5 ай бұрын
why that bell?????
@anthonystrains16725 ай бұрын
🤷🏼♂️ idk that’s not in my control
@user-lq4mo8dw1p4 ай бұрын
The bell must be active leaving stations or entering....I only worked freight, on freight locomotives the bell comes on when you blow the horn ...