Another great insight into local switching!, top stuff Joe,keep them coming! Cheers Gregg.

Great video. I used to drive a semi and hauled several loads a day into General Iron. Their traffic directors would wave you right in front of the train to get unloaded.

I remember the Milwaukee Road switching operations over 50 years ago. So busy back then.

I tell you what man, I love seeing these kind of videos from you! Keep up the great work

Joe, absolutely outstanding, as always! Thanks, Tom Nall

I've never seen that switcher in operation, but it's good to know that it was operating!

Great video, amazing operation!

Classic!!! Love it!!!

Damn, that thing sounds beautiful... just like a minitature road cruise ship

@Mrcharles.

5 жыл бұрын

I would say more like a ferry boat.

I can imagine an era, when this was either electrified or switched by steam locomotives

@MilwaukeeF40C

5 жыл бұрын

This was never electrified. Steam locomotives, yes. Before diesel locomotives some railroads used battery or gas powered road vehicles with couplers in places like this. PRR and B&O in the east are some examples.

nice love it engin sound and all vid

Thanks! Glad that you liked it! It was tough to get.

Thanks! And wow! yah sometimes it gets crazy in there.

The way that train was bobbing and weaving it looks like the typical deferring maintenance for profit

Awesome, thank you! One other thing, where does its run start normally? I want to be able to get it all, haha.

Thanks!

These train tracks are way abandoned now. Good to see a video of the rail being used though

@youraveragejoe2

2 жыл бұрын

Dam

@albertcarello619

Жыл бұрын

Raymond Aragon Diaz: III think an electric light rail trolley line should be built on this right-of-way to serve Navy Pier, Streeterville, and run along the Lakefront to serve McCormick Place, Shedd Aquarium, Museum Of Science and Industry, and the Art Institute.

@maas1208

6 ай бұрын

​@@albertcarello619 actually no, it's becoming an extention of the Bloomingdale trail

Sweet home Chicago.

What days and around what times does this normally run? I got a few days off coming up and I'd love to watch this!

thanks!

Good work!

@ernestpassaro9663

2 жыл бұрын

Little 800 hp switcher

As they say in Italian "It's a Ting o' beauty"!! :)

Great video! Is that North Ave? And the scrappers on Kingsbury? It's been a long time since I've been over there.

DAT horn tho.

Does he still use the Kinzie Street Bridge? I know it is abandoned but lowered once a year.

Is that branch line down the middle of the road still in use today? I want to see it and the bridge that has car/rail traffic. awesome video

@Chicagojoe28

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks! As far as I know the line is still in use. But the job is hard to catch.

@BionicleStudios55

7 жыл бұрын

Line is technically still in use, but the train never runs it. Last run was in late 2014.

@sirbuffles2353

6 жыл бұрын

Bionicle Studios 55 they just removed tankers from the line. it was in October of 2017. So I assume it's a storage line.

@paulj6756

3 жыл бұрын

Much of it was being ripped out in 2020.

@AMTK90200

Жыл бұрын

As of 2023, the entire railroad is no longer in use.

It runs weekday mornings as needed. mostly every other day. its difficult to catch. nothing to it but luck!

6:17 to 6:52 is that the swing bridge that is manually operated with the use of wood blocks to prop up the rails? 8:00 to the end, whom is moving who?

Does this locomotive have something wrong with its air dryer?

Quick questions here. Does a train have to obey traffic signals like a normal vehicle; i.e. stop signs, red lights, yields? If not, would he have the right away or does he have to wait till traffic clears to proceed?

@Chicagojoe28

8 жыл бұрын

+Vic Reece Im not sure, Trains should always have the right of way, but some RR's like the South shore passenger service sometimes stop for traffic signals.

@TheYardLimit

8 жыл бұрын

+Chicagojoe28 The south shore for example has influence over the 11th street light cycle. but when that is out of order, they generally do follow traffic protocol

@matthewcheng428

7 жыл бұрын

trains have their own signals to obey, but they do not pay any attention to traffic signals for road vehicles. in other words, during street running maneuvers, the train always has right of way because it can't stop very quickly.

@vicreece8681

7 жыл бұрын

So if there was a 4-way stop sign somewhere, the train, regardless of who stopped first at the 4-way stop sign, would have the right of way and would go through the intersection first?

@Chicagojoe28

7 жыл бұрын

yes

am I the only one thinking that air drier?? is goin nuts a bit there

haha oh yes!

is the bridge at the beginning of the video a type of movable bridge that is just fixed in place now? it looks as if there is some overhanging superstructure at one end but I cant see it in the camera view

@MilwaukeeF40C

5 жыл бұрын

That bridge moves.

@garysprandel1817

4 жыл бұрын

The one at the very end I know for sure does as there's video here on YT of it being closed to allow traffic to cross. Not sure on the truss bridge at the beginning as I remember seeing that bridge as a kid in the 70s with a huge counterweight on the North Avenue side that seems to have been removed and I know one of the up or down stream road bridges was replaced with a non movable span and other of the bascule bridges have had the traffic control gates and lights removed so the first one may be fixed and straight railed.

What prime mover is in that locomotive? Does not sound like an EMD. Love the Wabco horn.

@MilwaukeeF40C

5 жыл бұрын

It's an EMD 567 something or other, definitely fewer than 16 cylinders.

@ernestpassaro9663

2 жыл бұрын

@@MilwaukeeF40C 8 cylinder 800 hp

It looks like it

That work must be rough.

@Chicagojoe28

9 жыл бұрын

yah these guys are hard workers. Check out my video of them running in the winter.

nice

@Chicagojoe28

9 жыл бұрын

J.D. Larson Thanks

@baristajethroholyfield3321

8 жыл бұрын

+J.D. Larson I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about how do i get a job with the railroad try Debuncar Railroad Jobs Aid ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my cousin got cool success with it.

When does this job usually operate?

@Chicagojoe28

6 жыл бұрын

Im not sure. I haven't seen them in a few years. its very random.

I heard him say fucking asshole lol

The track has been ripped out between North Avenue and the bridge and on Cherry Ave south of Division Street

@chargermaster586

3 жыл бұрын

And Paved over at the bridge on North ave the end of an Era

weird sounding horn. sounds like a ship horn

@boweandrew3

6 жыл бұрын

those kinds of horns Wabco E2 horns were common on diesels SW 8 etc and Leslie A200 should be used around the world

@MilwaukeeF40C

5 жыл бұрын

Classic early diesel horn.

I miss our old sw12's..... not

bad train horn. sounds like a ship horn

Great videos! So, is this all ex MILW trackage?

Loud horn.

thanks!