NS' Chicago Line: A Railroad Superhighway Part 3

[@NaTheN9ll]

You are by far my favorite railfanning KZbinr! Been binge watching this series for the last few hours & here I am now haha. Keep up the awesome content sir!

[@timdodge7845]

very informative, great job and time spent to present a great video Nice areal footage

[@oldtown6240]

Excellent series: entertaining and informative. Annotated Google maps are a nice touch.

[@Steven_Williams]

My favorite part of series, because I live in Chicago and rail fan this area. Great work!!

[@jdubbs3422]

I totally appreciate the work you've put into your videos. The information and narration you've added is tremendous, keep up the great work.

[@dannygayler90]

In my late teens I worked at Newcastle's B H P , in the Blast furnace dept ( Cleaning the Tressels and the Ladle House ,, The ladle house was a great place to work , Ladle wagons were called , "Torpedos or Bottles" and carryied molten steel and with the same axel configuration as the American Bottles , the gross tonnage was 200 tons ! B H P is Long gone now and housing and light industrial now takes pride of place !

[@jordwilliamwatson]

I'm a rail enthusiast from the UK and I was was never interested in US stuff because I thought it was boring. You've proved me very wrong, it looks awesome! I love your videos 👌

[@J3scribe]

Another wonderful presentation Alex! Lots of great info and action in every part of the series.

[@scoobycarr5558]

I like those horns from the South Shore Line. America's last interurban is a mighty fine road and it has a chance to remain that way for many more years to come.

[@markhayes6407]

I like the aerial shots and the schematic diagrams of the yards and control points. Another well planned video and narration is so important in viewing trains. Thanks for sharing it.

[@maccomando111]

Just Fabulous. This is an outstanding production.

[@iusetano]

Loved your Chicago Line Series. Excellent video as usual. I look forward to watching your future videos.

[@sarahkhan2480]

tahir

[@davidnorrie1173]

Great video. The commentary, maps and aerial shots add so much.

[@Roadhogg24]

Hello again Outstanding, AGAIN!!! Alex, I think this is the BEST Rail channel here on KZbin, keep up the great work, I’ve could watch another 2 hours easily. Excellent job, sir!!!!!! Thanks again

[@PhilippePariseau]

Love this series (and your channel!) please keep it up!

[@haisano]

Great production - love the shots, drone footage and the informative narration. Well done!

[@galaxyrailfanning7860]

Woohoo another Chicago line video! Great video man keep up the excellent work!

[@barek56]

Always excellent stuff Alex! Bravo!!!

[@sandrews9009]

Top stuff! I really enjoyed the videos in this series.

[@markschenher4559]

I like the parking area at MP 488. You can nose right up to the tracks and see in either direction for a long ways Great video series

[@scoobycarr5558]

Norfolk Southern's Great Steel Fleet hauling the 21st Century Limited and many more intermodal trains from Chicago to New York. How cool is that? The New York Central Railroad never really did go away. Only the name of the railroad has changed to Norfolk Southern from Chicago to Cleveland and CSX from Cleveland and Buffalo to New York. And all of the Water Level Route in between.

[@Bhil3]

Another great video. So glad I found your channel.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Welcome aboard!

[@jeffreymcfadden9403]

1 day on a very cold chicago december 26th afternoon, we caught a CR transfer from CNW wood yard to elkhart. It was stopped at mccook/la grange on the IHB. We walked down to the head end, the conductor asked if we "had ever been up in one of these"? Of course we said no. After some IHB switchers went by the train started to move,,,after some instruction on how to get off moving equipment, we disembarked at the grade crossing,,,about 100 yards or so. The power was 4 black PC/CR F units(actually 3 F7s and 1 FP 7). the year 1977. somewhere in the garage is some paperwork that the crew gave us about the train(form 19).F7 no. 1693. this transfer would have taken the route in this video.

[@fakecumberland]

Good to see those GP60s, though when they were new, I saw them on RoadRailers.

[@fastcsx1412]

Great video and great catches so so very cool!!! So many trains!!!

[@qnw4368]

NS horns are always jacked up, great video though, lots of places i would like to visit

[@Bob.W.]

Like the drone work in combo with the trackside cam

[@JonBvideo]

I find it cool that NS is still using the Conrail Blue and White signs on their Control Points, even though Conrail has been gone for almost 20 years.

[@royscreen61]

Great series thank you,Roy from downunder

[@9966-r7u]

Good drone and moon coverage.

[@randallbyrd1973]

Awesome video thank you

[@buckstarchaser2376]

38:08 Current personal record for engines spotted at 6 ! I wonder how many of them are doing work and where they're going.

[@vermilionrailfan5651]

Man I love the Chicago Line

[@terryboyer1342]

As a kid I remember the chant Engine engine number nine. Going down Chicago line. If the train goes off the track. Do you want your money back?

[@vermilionrailfan5651]

terry boyer that's actually pretty catchy. I'll have to remember this.

[@terryboyer1342]

It's just what kids did before video games.

[@blackshadow3132]

@terry boyer Ok boomer

[@norfolksouthernguy9350]

great video love it

[@TrainSF]

Awesome Video!!

[@davidcoleman958]

Awesome videos! Have you ever railfanned the NS Chicago Line between Toledo and Cleveland?

[@HighRail62]

Always enjoy your series,my friend! Ever think about getting into the DVD sells ? Your videos are quality and interesting and I believe they would sell. On the other hand,its also great to be able to watch,free of charge. Either way,thanks for sharing!!

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

DVD sales take a lot of time investment, and you really don't get much in return per copy. So much easier to just throw one of these online - making you only shoot and edit - and then forever earn a pretty decent rate of return from KZbin Adsense. I've said it before and it's worth saying again, that the economics of this works in such a way that there is an exploding amount of content online in a variety of subjects for free - except for the occasional ad for you to watch. So I don't plan any DVD sales. I get enough return via KZbin to at least break even on development costs!

[@MikeInPlano]

Like the segment at 8:30 showing how flexible is the rail destined to be CWR.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

There's a reason it is called ribbon rail!

[@helviopd]

Excelente vídeo. Congratulation.

[@irvinklugh8858]

LIKE IT

[@marcinw3964]

46:05 if you look closely, actually only one out of four of those cars have 12 axles, others have only 10 axles.

[@robertramsay5963]

I've always wondered how they get that welded rail around a curve but apparently it works just fine.

[@scoobycarr5558]

Somebody from Norfolk Southern's maintenance department fix that sag in the track at 21:50. Especially with those tankers carrying a variety of chemicals.

[@Indiana_Railroads]

I love your work and videos. I live in Chesterton so if you ever want to meet up and Railfan contact me and we will work it out. Again love your work!

[@JennaLynette-q6j]

Is there any way I can purchase all 3 parts of this series on DVD? I model NS in N scale with a specific interest in this part of the NS system.

[@mattmcc9455]

Rather amazed you filmed from the former Porter Tower triangle. That is an arrest location waiting to happen.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

You can shoot there if you stay on the shoulder of the road. I usually park on that alley in the SE quadrant of the Chicago Line crossing then loiter on the sidewalk along the road. That's public easement and one should have no problems. NS does of course have problems with parking beyond the road, as they should.

[@CombsTowerProductions]

Can you do a video on the NS Chicago District/Fort Wayne line?

[@MikeInPlano]

12:20 Did that BNSF engineer give you the "Shave and a Haircut" horn salute in the middle of its grade crossing?

[@vermilionrailfan5651]

Do you know what the max grade percentage is, where it starts, and where it ends on the Chicago Line? I'm building it in Trainz, and since I'm trying to make it realistic it would be nice to know. Thanks in advance!

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

Ruling grade EB through Indiana is Otis Hill. Milepost 470-475 features an average of a 0.5% eastward climb. The rest of the railroad is pretty much flat.

[@vermilionrailfan5651]

Thornapple River Rail Series thanks alot! I enjoyed the video Z well, and yes, I will rewatxh these videos and out the knowledge to use. Currently at La Porte IN rn in the trainz build

[@wheetcracker]

2:30 Why does the slight underexposure make the drone shots look so... cinematic?

[@electric7487]

19:30 Send Measured Smiles

[@PaulWisner-j3q]

does gthis line go through East Palatine Ohio

[@f.puttstycker2784]

Wwhat is rock island route ?

[@MikeInPlano]

22:05 Lot of smoke that looks suspiciously like hot brake shoes.

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

It's actually product from the hopper leaking and blowing in the wind. I got a good look as it went by. It was coming from the hopper gate, not the running gear.

[@quintinivey9359]

Conrail alive and well.

[@ericthered1140]

Binge watching Thornapple...

[@thuggoe]

once they added 110 mph sectionj the trains started to be on time

[@FFred-us9tw]

The fastest freight speed here is 60 MPH for intermodal.

[@spaceghost8995]

Yeah too bad that Pennsy line has been abandoned from the north end of Gary on up to where it once paralleled the NYC.

[@foxatvoutdoorstrails6818]

Does Chicago go to Pittsburgh line pa

[@ThornappleRiverRailSeries]

NS' portion of the Chicago Line ends where CSX ownership begins in Cleveland. East of there I'm not exactly sure but I know somewhere in there a lot of traffic ends up enroute to Altoona.

[@RailRoadRex439]

Hey we should meet up in Hammond tho. I live like 30 miles south of there

[@TobyPasman]

Did you know that Gary, Indiana, was the birthplace of Michael Jackson?

[@Omar02669]

skyway is no longer owned by the city. it was sold to a private company and now charge 7 dollars per toll 🥴

[@dev4bucks]

3rd world rail system.. Still good work.

[@penskepc2374]

Actually for its purpose, freight its one of the advanced lines out there. Norfolk southern has pioneered numerous innovations to both the physical rails and the business models thay go along with them....but let me guess? Its not advanced because you didn't see a bullet train

[@sd8313]

American freight railways are the best in the world. Passenger is garbage though

[@blackshadow3132]

@Susan Loughlin Got em