Amazing! it's impressive to see heavy trains in the middle of the street!

Fascinating to see, especially with the long train stopping in the middle of the road like a streetcar / tram so that passengers can board / alight and that when in street-running mode the trains sometimes have to stop at red traffic signals, just like all other road users.

This is an amazing train!! In Japan, there use to be a train running on the street like this, but not such long distance. Really cool!!

I used to drive this street back in the 70's and 80's. You haven't really experienced it until you were staring down a "Little Joe" locomotive led freight. Those would put a scare into you! A train once ripped the side mirror off my brother-in-law's pickup when he was too close to the tracks attempting a left turn off of 11th.

This is incredible- love the shots driving next to the train especially. It seems so dangerous but clearly local drivers train-aware!

This is how many interurbans would run. With the North Shore Line, the train would run down the middle of the street in Wilmette and then again in Milwaukee. Other cities with interurbans did the same. You need to be careful obviously.

Excellent! Street running is hard to beat! Thank you for uploading this.

I think the American railroads should bring back the Interurban and electric freight carriers.

Amazing! Thank you for these special, rare glimpses of these giant road runners, Luke!

i love the sound of the motors on those cars.

I'm a Model Railroder, Looooove your video 👍🛤️🚇 & love the South Shore Railroad,

Viewing from here in NZ 🇳🇿 and I found it really interesting, I noted that all of the passenger carriages appear to have electric traction and I was surprised at the length of the train, I didn't expect that. I know that all trains running in America have to have that bell operating in proximity to stations etc but that drive me nuts if I was a driver there irrespective of personal opinion rules are rules, thank you for posting.

I've ridden the South Shore train through Michigan City many times on may way between Chicago and South Bend. Always interesting to look out the window and watch as we progressed down the streets of Michigan City... though traveling on those streets meant for a slow crawl through town and at times meant sitting outside of Michigan City waiting on a train traveling in the opposite direction to clear the downtown area since this portion is single tracked.

America's Last Interurban! Thank you for sharing this cool perspective. I had the privilege of joining a train at 11th street before. Its a shame the whole railway will soon be diverted off city streets, but a win for safety. This is the only place this sort of operation still happens regularly for passengers in the USA that isn't a light rail or streetcar line.

Grow up in Michigan City never really thought that this was that special since I wait on this train everyday but I guess it is

Twenty years ago, I was driving on either Tenth Street or Eleventh Street in Michigan City following the tracks when I encountered a train coming towards me. They blew their horn at me and I honked back at them. Then I pulled over to the right side of the street to get out of the way of the train.

Quite a mighty sight. I've never seen anything similar and you did well to follow the trains filming 👍

That's pretty cool

Unbelievable that they drive on a regular street. Fun to see!

Many years ago my family and I would ride the to Chicago.