Yes Cleveland, Ohio has a "subway" - The Red Line/Rapid Transit - Beautiful Fall Colors!!!

Look at those fall colors!!!
The Red Line (formerly Route 66, also known as the Airport-Windermere Line) is a rapid transit line of the RTA Rapid Transit system in Cleveland, Ohio, running from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport northeast to Tower City in downtown Cleveland, then east and northeast to Windermere. 2.6 miles (4.2 km) of track, including two stations (Tri-C-Campus District and East 55th), are shared with the light rail Blue and Green Lines; the stations have high platforms for the Red Line and low platforms for the Blue and Green Lines. The whole Red Line is built next to former freight railroads. It follows former intercity passenger rail as well, using the pre-1930 right-of-way of the New York Central from Brookpark to West 117th, the Nickel Plate from West 98th to West 65th, and the post-1930 NYC right-of-way from West 25th to Windermere. The Red Line uses overhead lines and pantographs to draw power. ~Wikipedia
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[@himbourbanist]

Cleveland doesn't get enough credit for having a solid little transit system. Without a doubt it needs some more funding and reliability on lines other than the Red Line, but the stations are clean and fairly new looking, and based on your footage it looks like it gets some decent usage too. Cleveland is another classic case of a city with great bones and great transit infrastructure that's just waiting for a funding kick to get to that next level.

[@robertcartwright4374]

I know! A city like Cleveland makes my transit planning enthusiasm salivate like mad.

[@mjsteward5508]

Cleveland is awesome for public transportation. I love my visit every time I visit there.

[@JBS319]

The Red Green and Blue lines are getting new Siemens S200 vehicles to replace the Tokyu and Breda equipment. This will allow all trains to use the same platforms on the shared section.

[@Andrew-bn7rr]

Seems like the only issue is lack of transit oriented development near the stations. Too many park n rides instead

[@robertcartwright4374]

Hmm ... it's low hanging fruit. All that land, basically pre-cleared for TOD! @@Andrew-bn7rr

[@scottyerkes1867]

Unique subway/metro. Underground/street level/overhead power and it shares some stations with light rail.💚💚👌

[@pureessenceofgaming1745]

i believe they are planning on making it low floor light rail,

[@mrxman581]

LA has the most extensive light rail system in the USA and it has many underground stations as well as aerial ones. This is separate from the two subway lines that are completely underground.

[@DwainRoss]

It is unique because to be honest we kind of took the cheap route to build out the red line. We utilized freight tracks that weren't being used anymore which is why they run below grade and often you'll see them run next to freight trains. This makes it hard to build proper TOD to boost ridership around a lot of stations. The light rail system was separate from then CTS (Cleveland Transit System), it belonged to Shaker Transit. When everyone merged under one umbrella (GCRTA) they never really merged the lines or invested in a unified system which creates an awkward disconnect. Even our heavy rail has odd dimensions which slowed us up from ordering new rail cars due to the small number of cars we were ordering and the odd dimensions of existing infrastructure.

[@hermanhuang9048]

Day trip to Cleveland? Fun fact - When I lived in Cleveland once upon a time, the Red Line trains ran on the left side east of Tower City, a relic from an even earlier time when the tracks between Tower City and E. 55th Sreet were shared with PCC cars (now the Blue and Green Lines), which had doors only to the right of the driver, so the PCC cars had to run on the left because the E. 34th and E. 55th Street platforms were in-between the tracks. East of E. 55th, the Blue and Green Lines switched to the right side, but the Red Line continued on the left, all the way to the eastern terminus.

[@centredoorplugsthornton4112]

I took a few trips in the late 80s early 90s when Red Line trains had fare boxes behind the operators cabs and fares would be collected on board. Train and express bus fare was $1, local bus was 85 cents. An ad in Hopkins airport read, "How far does a dollar go today? All the way downtown. The Rapid! One level below baggage." RTA got 60 Red Line cars and 48 Shaker Heights cars in the 1980s but last report only 74 cars between the 2 fleets were running. 60 cars on order from Siemens that can run on both lines and idea may be to keep as many of the current cars for rush hours and other busy times.

[@adrianwitzburg4140]

These trains have a chime similar to the ones used in the MBTA

[@CaseysTrains]

And the same whistle as the Market-Frankford Cars in Philly.

[@SigmaRho2922]

In 2026, the Red Line is going to be converted to high-floor light rail upon the receiving of their last Siemens S200 car.

[@robk7266]

It's just the vehiclesbare changing. It's not being converted

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Hopefully all the light rail platforms will be raised to meet and match high level platforms of the current Red Line. It won't require a months long shutdown if they follow the best rapid construction techniques first used in this country by the Massachusetts Highway Department for 7 freeway bridges in Medford, north of Boston.

[@CaseysTrains]

Just because it's getting LRV doesn't changed the Rapid Transit nature of the line. Even the Light Rail Portions are built up pretty heavily until Shaker Heights itself where it runs in the median.

[@oddityscrash]

Such a great system. Great video as always!

[@RoboJules]

The most fascinating thing about the Red Line is that it's heavy rail that interfaces with light rail lines.

[@CityLifeinAmerica]

They are getting new trains, Siemens S200 high floor vehicles. So they will soon be retired in favor of light rial vehicles.

[@Thomas1980]

SUPER LIKE 👍💯Thumbs Up! Kind regards

[@edwardmiessner6502]

The trains are so cute! But they're elderly you can tell by the thump, thump, thump made by the uneven wheels.

[@CaseysTrains]

NYC Subway's newest railcars recently had a gear teeth issue on the wheels and it let to flat spots so loud the train had to goes through the station a reduced speed. Flat wheels aren't exclusive to old trains, ESPECIALLY in the fall. Even brand new trains can have them if there enough slip-n-slide on the rails.

[@OwlGreene]

The Red was light rail, way b4 light rail was "a thing".

[@matthewhernandez8342]

Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati has light rail i think

[@TomMcBoston]

Columbus does not.

[@jrt2792]

​@@TomMcBostonCleveland is the only Ohioan city with a metro system.

[@TomMcBoston]

​@@jrt2792 Cincinnati has a short light rail line.

[@centredoorplugsthornton4112]

Cleveland has a proper metro rail, Cincinnati has a modern streetcar line, Dayton has trackless trolleycoaches, Columbus, even as Ohio's capital and biggest city, has NO RAIL. No light rail, no metro, no Amtrak and the 3 C Corridor was killed by the governor.

[@akoska]

Your enlish is not correct unfotunately! You used plural form, n the word AND! So the correct conjugation of da verb HAVE is simply only haVE, not HAS please!

[@fokusnikfim]

Hello Klasse Video.......FIM👮🚂🤚

[@jrt2792]

Whenever I'm heading to the airport, I always take the train.

[@nannerz1994]

I need to ride it I didn't know it existed

[@nick_pappagiorgio]

It looks like the Los Angeles Metro subway, but there are no bums smoking crack on every subway car.

[@amtrak_121]

Why can't they just stick with Heavy Rail for the red line?!

[@Blank00]

It’s probably not busy enough. If a train only has 2 or 3 cars, light rail makes better sense

[@CaseysTrains]

I got SNAPPED ON once by some rando on my channel for calling it a Subway. She was like "iTs nOt A sUbWaY, iSsA RaPid!" To which I linked her the Wikipedia page for "Rapid Transit" who's page wass graced with a dirty ass NYC Subway Train and told her, "They are the same thing."