0:00 Elburn 5:49 La Fox 13:34 Geneva 22:35 West Chicago 26:39 Winfield 31:11 Wheaton 34:24 College Avenue 38:36 Glen Ellyn 43:21 Lombard 48:23 Villa Park 52:24 Elmhurst

@MetraUPWRailfanner

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot to add College Ave that comes after wheaton & before glen ellyn

Definitely one of my favorite metra KZreadrs on the platform! One of the very few best metra ride videos that I actually enjoy! Your channel is my #1 favorite for train ride videos I do have to say. You just got a new subscriber my friend!

I live in Wheaton :D

@MetraUPWRailfanner

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

Is anyone watching this because they strangely miss riding the Metra to work?

3 short blasts should be enough. No train horn zones will eventually get someone hurt badly or killed.

@BroadwayLTDProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Jon Adkins People get clapped by trains in the shitcagoland area all the time. The horns would definitely help reduce that.

@meverything2216

3 жыл бұрын

Very true I am sure they will make a law at some point

This was the train line I used mostly when I lived near Chicago

You can usually tell the old CN&W lines by the freights which run on the opposite side of traditional freights in the US.

My only complaint is quit playing with the camera, it's distracting.

Stupid bell sounds like a grease pump. Car has a flat spot also. That should make for a nice ride.

A good video only spoilt by the constant fiddling to set the camera up, maybe use a tripod or just set it to self stabilise.

I think another reason why Elburn is a "Quiet Zone" is because of the Mata Amritanandamayi Center Chicago Ashram Complex located a few miles from there - on Keslinger Road.

I thought after that lady got hit at the Villa Park station several eons ago, they had a mandate to blow the horn there several times.

Why do you need a separate stop at the Elburn Yard? Workers can't walk the less than 1 mile (maybe less than 1/2 mile) to the passenger platform to get on the train?? Look, there's even a somewhat-passable path that leads right to the platform (visible at right at the very start of the video). Making an extra stop there only slows the trains down. Get rid of that thing!

I remember riding this line to go to NIU

Ah, I feel Nostalgic watching the Geneva Station.

@prosperlabs9835

3 жыл бұрын

Me too, buddy.

@packersdk

2 жыл бұрын

Same. I was just on this a few weeks ago

They run Intermodal Trains on this line like they were commuter trains! BTW, the bridge over the tracks at 30:33 is the last remains of the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Elgin Branch (Now a bike /walking trial)

@BossSpringsteen69

3 жыл бұрын

At 30:30 is a little closer. And they run the stack trains with scant regard to public safety.

@staintedcards

2 жыл бұрын

actually i think thats the great western trail aurora elgin is the prarie path they tore down the bridge that crossed route 83 made the great western trail around it great western trail that goes by what was ovaltine and the old lumber yard when the CNW used it

@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory

2 жыл бұрын

There's actually lots of remains on the branch, with 2 or 4 substations left, several smaller bridges, and one buried bridge plus another C&NW bridge over it still standing.

I’ve been thinking of doing one o these, should I?

Wow that area out by Elburn and LaFox has not changed much EXCEPT IT IS A STUPID QUIET ZONE!!!!!!!

@metrabnsfrails3641

4 жыл бұрын

mt90945557 it wasn’t the only thing that it turned into a quiet zone since 2018 Rochelle Has turned into a quiet zone.

@TheLewistownTrainspotter8102

4 жыл бұрын

@@metrabnsfrails3641 Quiet zones should be abolished. The people who advocated for them should also get a talking to about how train horns are something they agreed to with implied consent when they bought houses near the tracks.

@BroadwayLTDProductions

4 жыл бұрын

@@metrabnsfrails3641 Yep just like Galesburg.

@Robbi496

3 жыл бұрын

Some quiet zones have been there since the 1950's, such as the Metra UP North Line

@WillGrimm623

3 жыл бұрын

@@Robbi496 same with the BNSF Railway line. The quiet zones were negotiated by the CB&Q

Does anyone know what the clanking is in these Metra Ride Alongs? I know it's the control car making that noise, but I can't figure out why?

@chooch1995

4 жыл бұрын

A bell.....

@MegaBrokenstar

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a bell warning nearby people that the engine is coming. It serves a similar function to the horn on most trains.