I am so glad Chicago still has a huge Elevated and Subway train system

@wild1p329

6 жыл бұрын

I get what you mean.. But you do realise he is an entire century behind in time 😂.... But he means well..

@magnuschristianssen8999

6 жыл бұрын

Huge? I have seen it and it only makes a small loop in downtown Chiraq and from what I have seen it is hardly ridden anymore. Time to tear it out and put in a subway system.

@johncotter1600

5 жыл бұрын

Wrong Magnus, it goes all throughout the city and services hundreds of thousands of customers a day.

@demondburgess7514

5 жыл бұрын

@@johncotter1600 Right, Chicago is the only City that has maintained 90% of its Elevated and Subway Structure and is planning to expand... The L is a Considered a Chicago landmark

@johncotter1600

5 жыл бұрын

It's funny that they have decided to expand considering they tore out 3 entire lines. Look up the Kemwood Line, Stockyards Line, and Logan Square Line.

That woman who just turned 60 is or would be 90 today. So strange how time marches on. This doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

@GrijzePilion

6 жыл бұрын

Time is a weird, weird thing. Quite awful, too.

@hellochii1675

4 жыл бұрын

"That woman who just turned 60 is or would be 90 today. So strange how time marches on. This doesn't seem like it was that long ago." I truly hope she is still enjoying her life in Boston.

@hellochii1675

4 жыл бұрын

Time is weird. I wasn't born at that time...

And those trains are still in service today!

@mrdm1967ify

7 жыл бұрын

New ones are coming. www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/11/14/new-mbta-orange-line-trains/

@aperson1971

7 жыл бұрын

Derwin how about the one that was older the train their on

@mikeyhuynh1948

7 жыл бұрын

RixceU i take that to work and school daily

@mrdm1967ify

7 жыл бұрын

MCPE MBTA stuff & more HERNANDEZ Melted for scrap and shipped to China.

@magnuschristianssen8999

6 жыл бұрын

Um, actually the Orange Line trains were scrapped.

Living next to the L, you didn't need an alarm clock to wake u up @ 5:00 am.

For me, born and raised in Roxbury and hearing stories about the train station; and now watching this video makes me wish that they kept it! I was only a year old at this time too lol But the lady was right when she said riding on the train higher up get you a view of Roxbury which is a great neighborhood to look at.

@kingvenderose857

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr🥲

Elevated lines are still useful and should have a future as well as a past. It's a very foolish decision to want to get rid of them and I hope this trend is soon reversed

@cjeam9199

6 жыл бұрын

eisemanrenyardjake Why? They cause an excessive level of visual and noise pollution and probably more air pollution. The only advantage they have over underground lines is being cheaper and perhaps more accessible.

@eisemanrenyardjake

6 жыл бұрын

Modern L's are all electric; electric trains don't pollute the air. Yes, they're cheaper and more accessible than underground commuter lines and offer great views from the trains. As for noise pollution, newer trains are quieter and no noisier than mainline trains, or road traffic, which is noisier still (and definitely pollutes the air!). Regarding visual pollution, people said the Eiffel Tower was a blight on the Parisian skyline when it was new; now it's one of the city's most beloved attractions. Ditto the London Eye; people said it was an eyesore when it first went up; 5 years later, when its lease with the original operator expired and it was due to come down, opposition was so great that the city's mayor stepped in and saved it due to popular demand. L's are like this too, only many times more useful

@cjeam9199

6 жыл бұрын

eisemanrenyardjake Cheaper, more accessible and views from the trains doesn’t seem like sufficient reason for them to be preferred over underground lines given all those disadvantages too.

@eisemanrenyardjake

6 жыл бұрын

Well, evidence speaks for itself. I live in an area served by an underground commuter line and I prefer Ls. They're also faster to build than underground lines and with new Ls, such as the Docklands Light Railway (or DLR) in the East End of London, it's going from strength to strength. Sure, underground lines have their uses and for me, they've always been part of life, but they're harder to access (especially if they're old) more expensive and take longer to build, don't offer good views (for the most part, anyway) and many people who are claustrophobic can't use them. They're also much noisier (when you're on board) than Ls. It's unclear what, if any, disadvantages Ls have that mainline trains don't. To not want them, you're behaving like an ignorant little child who doesn't want a vaccination from the doctor because the shot will sting (for a short time) even though it's for their own, long-term benefit

@cjeam9199

6 жыл бұрын

eisemanrenyardjake Hmmmm you’re starting to convince me actually.

They still haven't replaced that subway line yet... As of 2017. It is just a glorified bus on that route still. "Silver Line"

@ARSZLB

6 жыл бұрын

DigitalIslandboy trolleybus* turns into an electric trolley car that runs off overhead power lines once it enters the dedicated bus tunnel approaching South Station

@DigitalIslandboy

6 жыл бұрын

When they took down the Orange Line they promised to replace it with a subway. The Orange Line was put into the channel created for what was going to be the Southwest Expressway.

@magnuschristianssen8999

6 жыл бұрын

They aren't going to either, most city planners think that "if they'll ride a train, they'll ride a bus too" and WOW are they wrong!!!

@DigitalIslandboy

3 жыл бұрын

@CrappyDreams No, the Orange Line was put into the cut that was supposed to become the (unbuilt) SouthWest Expressway next to NorthEastern University's campus. Part of the Silver Line (at present) goes down Washington Street towards Dudley where the Orange Line was above ground. They are about a half mile apart. If you look at the south end of Tufts/New England Medical Station you can see the bricked up wall where the OL used to go above ground behind the hospital then go on a former bridge high above the Mass Turnpike down Washington St. to Dudley.

@DigitalIslandboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@ARSZLB The Silver Line to/from Dudley does not now go into the tunnel. It starts/stops opposite side of Atlantic Avenue outside South Station on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Essex Street. It also doesn't use electricity on that route before it snakes around towards Downtown Crossing and Boyston Street. The tunnel was never built for that part of the Silver Line because the Hospital on Washington Street complained the tunnel construction was going to be a safety issue for ambulances.

Glad Chicago still has their’s

@redsox1935

Жыл бұрын

So does New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, Denver, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. They still have theirs

Think about this: since this video all the adults are retired or dead and the kids are like 40 and has kids of there own

"20th century is coming in, and the 19th century is leaving us" It's surreal to think he said that 34 years ago

Too bad thats gone, a very beatiful trainline in my opinion

That's sad I've been riding the Elevated train from Orange Line and Green Line too, but I am glad that New York City subway elevated train system is still have their open 24/7 every day.

I miss these days! Wish I could watch more vids like this of my City Boston's former elevated trains. R.I.P.

Rest in peace to the cars that served this line. I haven’t seen one in revenue service after the shutdown.

2:30 is why I love people

Boston should have gone the route that Philly took, and reconstruct the El.

@jaygatling1977

3 жыл бұрын

Concrete construction made it quiet and reinforced.

@Netbook451

3 жыл бұрын

Had the ROW for the cancelled Southwest Expressway not been dug up and repurposed for the Orange Line relocation I feel that the El would've been retained and rehabbed.

My hometown- 90s baby but love this city

I miss the tin car trains, the do-do sound everytime the door closes, and just the clickety clackety of the tracks.

3:14 this woman speaks so well! She sounds like a seasoned reporter

Wat was the point of demolishing it if MBTA didn’t even start construction of the underground subway that they promised... should’ve waited till it was completely done to tear it down ...

It is so sad. A tragic loss. These should be rebuilt and more added everywhere. Brilliant architecture and views.

This was featured in the opening credits of every episode of St. Elsewhere.

@robertknight4672

Жыл бұрын

I've never seen that show. I just checked that out. I didn't know they are Divine featured in the opening credits of a TV show.

@LarryLeeMoniz

10 ай бұрын

@@robertknight4672 At the 1:10 mark, you can actually see the building our the window!

And after the Orange Line was taken out, that Xmas the commuters sang "No-el" :D

It's so weird watching old footage like this. That lady who said she turned 60 is probably dead now, if she's still alive she's 90 years old.

@notsure6187

5 жыл бұрын

and that boy with his dad is probably about 40

Sad. I live in Arizona now,but when I was a kid I remember the MTA Rapid Transit. Sad.

Back when the T was great...

@hugoharington263

6 жыл бұрын

Haha the t was never great

@closedpermanently9723

6 жыл бұрын

Hugo Harington you were never great

@ariver7491

4 жыл бұрын

Try no taking the T at all even when your car breaks

@redsox1935

4 жыл бұрын

@A R So let me get this straight they took down the Orange Line “EL” in Boston. Yet they plan to put up the Green Line “EL” in Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford.

Makes me homesick for Boston find memories of riding the subways..live in Texas. we have trains but miss riding the T

@FiftiesDad

4 жыл бұрын

It’s still just the same my man. Come back sometime!

Those tracks came down thirty years ago, though as a New Yorker I can't really say I like the (7) going over most of Roosevelt Avenue all the time. Still sad that Boston lost theirs though.

@DrSurprise

6 жыл бұрын

I hope the 7 line never gets demolished. It's an icon

@ARSZLB

6 жыл бұрын

the 7 IS Queens, and i hope they keep improving it and never do away with it. sometimes when i couldn’t sleep, i would go ride the 7 train from end to end, Main St in Flushing to Times Square, at 2 AM when i’d be the only person in the whole car that i was sitting in.

@Teeveepicksures

6 жыл бұрын

We'd go to my aunts house in Sunnyside, walk to White Castle then eat burgers under the trains.

@sonicboy678

6 жыл бұрын

It would be rather difficult to do away with it at this point thanks to the IND.

@blakemcnamara9105

4 жыл бұрын

That's my train line.

Being Orange, I bet the Irish Catholics in Boston didn't like it.

@jayrogers8255

4 жыл бұрын

🤣

@sammartland932

3 жыл бұрын

Not too far off. Not because of the color, though. The Boston Elevated Railway built the El right in front of Holy Cross Cathedral, and I remember some Catholic friends complaining that the Yankees had wrecked the Catholic cathedral with all that El noise. They shut down the El between someplace and someplace else when Pope John Paul came to town once; don't know if for noise or for security. It was the pre Popemobile days, when he rode standing up in an open car, so I kind of doubt it was for security.

I thought this was in the 90s for a sec, until I looked at the description and found out this was the spring of 1987!

Chicago still has elevated..and I agree that when on it..you see parts of the city you wouldn't otherwise

My mother use to take my brother and I downtown on the orange line almost every Saturday when I was a kid in Boston.

I'd like to find a video that has the Orange line starting from Everett to Forest Hills. That's the Ride I always took for 10 cents and for Saturday entertainment. I loved the Orange Line.

Fans of the 1980's tv show St Elsewhere should recognize the building at the 1:10 mark across from the park on the left. It is the facade that was used for the fictional St Eligius Hospital.

IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE ON "VIDEOCOLLECTABLES," HELP THE CREATOR LAUNCH HIS COMPANION CHANNEL - "VIDEO SCRAPBOOK" ( www.youtube.com/@VideoScrapbookOfOurTimes/ ). THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. WE NEED 30 SUBSCRIBERS TO BE VIABLE. YOU CAN MAKE THIS MILESTONE A REALITY, WHICH WILL ENCOURAGE MORE UPLOADS. A CLICK COSTS YOU NOTHING BUT A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

@ExpressRailfan

2 ай бұрын

I miss Boston's elevated train lines.

this is basically the prologue to the Big Dig.

Did not know Boston had an elevated track

At 1:10 you can see the fictional St. Eligius Hospital (Franklin Square House) from the TV hospital Drama "St. Elsewhere!"

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but, Markas' narration mentions how the el passes hospitals just as the train goes by the fictional hospital used in St. Elsewhere.

Funny how they JUST replaced the train cars😂

I am surprised that lady mentioned the Third Avenue El in New York. I wonder if she rode that elevated as well. Most of it closed in 1955, though a lot was still running until 1973.

It's strange to see those things new and not covered in rust. Can't wait for the new rollingstock in 2018-19

@brianreed31

6 жыл бұрын

The Moose yeah but they are china trains..

@notsure6187

5 жыл бұрын

built in Springfield though, but yeah still China trains.

Imagine if they saved every project they did lol the system would've been bigger

@DigitalIslandboy

3 жыл бұрын

Yup, the subway lines might have made it out to Route 128 as envisioned.

@Improj69

3 жыл бұрын

DigitalIslandboy bruh this was two years ago lol

@Improj69

3 жыл бұрын

DigitalIslandboy good to know someone replied in 2020

@Improj69

2 жыл бұрын

@@DigitalIslandboy Hi, one year later

@Improj69

2 жыл бұрын

Hello myself

I remember my first train. "Red Rattlers" they were called..... Toronto to Fassifern "2 small towns 140km north of Sydney Australia".... If I could turn back time.....

IT,S REALLY SAD TO THINK THAT SYSTEM IS GONE I, WAS BORN AND BREAD IN BOSTON FOR FIFTY FIVE YEARS WHO NOW LIVES IN FLORIDA AND I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS BUT , REMEMBERING MY CHILDHOOD TAKING THOSE TRAINS WITH MY MOTHER BACK IN THE DAY WAS A JOY MAN I MUST GETING OLD.

@jaycoleman6552

6 жыл бұрын

John Doe *BRED NOT A LOAF OF BREAD!

@strengthlove3182

4 жыл бұрын

Its still there in 2020

Kinda wish we knew what happened to those people and where are they now...

@raymondknight5298

3 жыл бұрын

dead mostly.

At least you'll still see the El in the opening credits of _St. Eleswhere_.

Why did they tear this down? I would have loved to ride on this!

@WashashoreProd

7 жыл бұрын

Green And Orange Line Productions I think blight was a major issue, like it was with the Charlestown El in the 1970s. I don't know that I'd say Roxbury is exactly nice now, but it's vastly improved over what it was thirty years ago, and getting rid of the el noise (and shadows) was part of that. The downside is that the Silver Line is a terrible excuse for a replacement and doesn't go south of Dudley.

@WashashoreProd

7 жыл бұрын

Nove Andrade Most of the current Dudley bus station is original construction from the el station. They just lowered it to ground level. It's quite beautiful, even if Dudley Square itself is a horrible tangle of random street directions.

@mrdm1967ify

7 жыл бұрын

When the Silver Line was implemented, it was a joke. To this day, its STILL a joke.

@PRHILL9696

7 жыл бұрын

I am so glad Chicago still has a huge Elevated and Subway train system

@notsure6187

5 жыл бұрын

Well it was the same year the Big Dig was approved so maybe they thought they should get rid of this too 😢

I love it I live in the sout end in the in the 70 and 80s The best in my life on the subways the orange 🍊 Line .good by to a good one. Always your fan sandra s p.s. miss it.

You didn't need an alarm clock if u lived next to the el.

wow and now we wish it was still there.

2:45 Ferris Bueller's sister!

Wow, very nice

Wasn’t this used in the opening credits to ST elsewhere

Those trains are still in service in 2020.

2019, the Orange line still uses the same trains....

@nathanbush6781

4 жыл бұрын

chi zhang I go back to Boston in May. I hope I get lucky enough to see and ride on the 12 new Orange Line cars...

I have had grown up on Dover Station and Checker Smoker. PREMIER restaurant. Paul Export.

I live in the south end . Sandra miss dove st stop! I well always be a fan of the 🍊line!🤗

Boston accent

Makes me wonder if the Vancouver Skytrain will be scrapped when I turn 80…

In 1940-42 NYC took down the second ave el. We did not get a replacement subway until 2017. and that is an incomplete section from 63st to 96st. Maybe by 2030 it will be a extend to 125 st but not below 63st. at least Boston built a new Orange line to replace that el.

Commuters ride these trains, but they are not "commuter" trains.

It is like the Broad St Line combined with the Market Frankford Line.

@dragonknightofamiraka3636

4 жыл бұрын

Philly way better than Boston.

@landenthinka4982

4 жыл бұрын

Broad St line J/Z?

@isaiahcheatham5749

4 жыл бұрын

I kinda see it

@Improj69

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragonknightofamiraka3636 Lies

I wonder how the area look now, that the train is gone?

@VideoCollectables

3 жыл бұрын

Here's the follow-up and answer to your question: kzread.info/dash/bejne/goJtw7KQZZfQfrw.html

Looks like boarded up windows in the south end. My have times changed.

@jaycoleman6552

6 жыл бұрын

Tyler Smith *BOARDED

@sostdm617

4 жыл бұрын

Damn near everywhere was back then

Called the L , because elevated . Ours in Chicago still runs .for the last 120 years .

@johncotter1600

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Chicago never really adopted the subway.

@sammartland932

3 жыл бұрын

But in Boston we spelled it with an e: the El.

Is it just me or the the old orange line elevated Train looks like the old Path Train on the inside

@kevinwong6588

6 жыл бұрын

They are based on the PATH PA3.

@J.J23

6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Wong I knew it, thank you😌

This train horn sounds just like the PATH here inn NJ.

At least the locos are still used underground

Ohhhhh!! This is so sad I wanna cry!

@Trainlover4472

8 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@losangelesangel2888

7 жыл бұрын

+JoeyLovesTrains Don't be sad just go to New York. They did things the right way there.

And now it's in a dark tunnel

@matthewbrodnitz1047

8 жыл бұрын

And you can see the sky from the streets that the train serves. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be able to see the sky from OUTSIDE than from on a TRAIN.

@losangelesangel2888

7 жыл бұрын

+Destination 201But at the same time there's nothing like seeing the city from above. Like when you are in Queens and in the Bronx people in NYC, Atlanta, DC, and Chicago can relate. It's beautiful to view your city from above ground and see all the activity and the buildings and the life of the city as the train is rolling by. Boston lost that luxury.

Were any of the station saved or were they all torn down along with the elevated system

@joeking5679

3 жыл бұрын

Dudley station was saved as is talked about in one of these comment sections. They reused most of the structure for the bus station that became part of the silver line (which is just a bus line)

@sammartland932

3 жыл бұрын

Also part of one station is up at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine.

Even though I live in New York City where we have 40% elevated its still sad to see this happen because it reminds how possible it is to happen here. (Although I think the 1.6 bil a mile price tag protects us)

@blakemcnamara9105

4 жыл бұрын

It has happened here. All of the original els in Manhattan and Brooklyn were demolished decades ago.

@strengthlove3182

4 жыл бұрын

The L is still in Chicago 2020

@bmendez3782

2 жыл бұрын

@@blakemcnamara9105 but sadly the last one in Manhattan is the 1 line.

The MBTA still has elevated portions

wow I've heard about this. looks like they were using the same type of train though. No wonder they are so crappy.

The last elevated train ride in Boston was in 2004

WOW SAD I LIKED THE T ORANGE LINE BUT THERE IS A NEW ORANGE LINE COMING

@ARSZLB

6 жыл бұрын

George Figueroa chill with the caps lock. and when? the Silver Line trolleybuses aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Take me back.. bring it back.. bring me back.. Boston when we had a elevated orange line train it was a Extoric Landmark.. they ruined Boston by knocking it down. the Southwest corridor Sucks it's a Joke Now.

@redsox1935

Жыл бұрын

They should have left it alone. It looks like the 1 train in The Bronx.

I like how no one in the comments has mentioned the fact that there was snow on the ground and it was the end of April. Is that normal for Boston?

@VideoCollectables

4 жыл бұрын

It used to happen from time to time.

@joeking5679

3 жыл бұрын

Go check out the Denver area....snow in late June.

@WHALEPSHIZZ

2 жыл бұрын

Bro we had snow in may

HYNES COVERSHEN CNTR

I loved the El

Boston will be look like New York with this! I wanna the trains on the tip not on the ground

to think those Hawker Siddley trainsets are still in service somehow

KENMORE

They should have petitioned to save these els.

Those trains are still working in January of 2021😂

HAYMARKET

Haha we still have those same cars today in December 2019 😹😹😹

NORTH STATION

LECHMERE

There was nothing with els but is easy sometimes ahead to see trains to operate outside is passengers to see outdoor views and the change on the next page is ridiculous the el was valuable structure and that just bits the dust unique structure, renovation and reconstruction must the page for the century too and it’s a shame that is turning out too differently to make underground line!

2:10 Damn that dude looks awfully a lot like Tyler the Creator

How much at 80s 2022 2.75

Sharika Morgan

There in survives

@jaycoleman6552

6 жыл бұрын

George Figueroa *They're

The T is an L

Wanda

2:00 Boy just screwed himself

You're kidding me, they ended the elevated train and replaced it with a subway? I never knew that. Why the hell would they do that? The underground subways are ugly and smell like piss. The elevated transit system sounds awesome!

PARK STREET