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What a little gem of a film! Very sharp and accurately exposed. A time machine to those halcyon days!

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Shore line route .......

0:05 Good that you merged them TOGETHER instead of apart

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I did see this without narration and low res---this is much better. Question---what do the numbers represent under the C. and M. on the station name signs?

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16:30 "We're going a mile a minute!" I guess that was remarkable in 1945, but it doesn't sound nearly as impressive compared to freeways where cars can maintain that speed for basically there entire journey. I can understand why the public wasn't nearly as excited about trains (though I would have loved to have been able to ride the North Shore Line).

There is not enough video footage of the Lake Shore Line. Thanks for posting this.

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Really cool reminder that the Chicago L started out as a glorified interurban!

Here's a preview of all crystal-clear, 16 mm color movie film of the North Shore and many other regional vanished electric lines. th-cam.com/video/Kr-NcPbINr0/w-d-xo.html

My parents, aunt and uncle rode this line. My Mom grew up in Hubbard Woods, my Dad in Glencoe and my aunt and uncle (at that time, no cousins yet) lived in Evanston. This is an eye-opening visual account of what they experienced as normal, day-to-day life before, during and after WWII. To see people casually crossing in front of the trains as well as cars and trucks. I guess they were slow enough and were going relatively slow so as not to pose too much of a threat.

In the 1980's in Wilmette Greenleaf Avenue was repaved and when they stripped off the asphalt it exposed the old rail lines. This video shows Greenleaf Avenue going into downtown Wilmette. I had seen photos but never actual footage. Fascinating stuff.

Great video. Please post some more.

Is there a way we can get raw videos of this?

I so enjoyed this video. To me, it's a terrible shame that the North Shore Line was abandoned - it is really needed today. I wish I had been alive in that era to have ridden the entire system. This was great!

I was born in 1945 in FL but "felt" the thrill as if I've been there. What a wonderful experience. Thank you so much for making my day

17:51 the old ryan tower i wish i saw that before it got demolished

my gsh.. he pronounced route as root !!! in 1956 in the navy i used to ride the north shote line on liberty to waukregan to go skating.. also milwaukee snd Chicago

I was looking at Google maps the other day especially at the Skokie Dempster (cta end of the line ) stop. A portion of the NS (route)tracks are still intact north of the station all the way up to Libertyville and Lake Bluff.

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Because of the flourishing industry of automobiles and airplanes and the idealization that trains were now caveman technology everyone thought that rail passenger service was no longer needed. Now, with an ever growing population our roads are overcrowding and eroding away from overuse. Airports can now take hours waiting for a flight and the ticket price is not practical for a short or moderate range trip. All because one generation thought they had reinvented the wheel, indeed cars and airplanes were magnificent additions to our society. But where they got it all wrong is in the belief that these new technologies could completely replace railroads. Now you see the consequence of tearing up 2/3rds of America's original rail network. We need these rail lines back more than ever.

Thank you!

Thank you so much, for posting! It's like visiting with an old friend.

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This is my parent's Chicago, both born in the middle twenties.

Was there some music at the very beginning of the video

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I loved it!! I wish we had a Chanel of old or very old documentaries like this!! Thank you for sharing!!!!

Thank you, Mr Keevil, for this lost footage. My dad rode the Indiana Interurban from Dayton to Richmond to Muncie. I wish I could go back and ride it with him.

I been fasinated about this route for days now since watching this. Sad the Chicago Rapid Transit had tro shorten their routes, but if you use google maps, at the Skokie location "Demster". You will see remains of trach in patches that sit today from this era. Very interesting to see where this route once ran. Kinda of scary maybe ghost trains who knows. But of course Metra uses modern rails or ones that were somewhere, but not these?

Outstanding trip in a Time Machine to experience interurban trains!

YEP, BRINGS BACK FOND MEMORIES. THE" SKOKIE " NORTHSHORE RAILINE TOOK US ON MANY LIBERTIES TO MILWAUKEE or CHICAGO WHILE I WAS STATIONED @ U.S. NAVAL HOSPITAL TRAINING CNT R. Sept.1954 to March 1955. IT GAVE ME GREAT BASIC TRAINING AS A MEDICAL/ SURGICAL CORPSMAN , TO A GOOD CAREER IN SERVICE & SALES OF ANESTHESIA/ RESIPATORY THERAPY EQUIP. for OHIO MEDICAL & SURGICAL EQUIPMENT CO. MADISON WISC. WE HAD GREAT & EXPERIENCED INSTRUCTORS @ U. S. NAVAL HOSP. TRAINING CENTER. GREAT LAKES.

17:12 - Approx modern-day address: 2300 16th Place, Kenosha, Wis. The tall white oil tanks in the distance is the site of the former 'Lockwood Oil Company', now Lockwood Self-Storage

Is that Lake Avenue on the south side of Milwaukee at about 17:57. It greatly resembles what I remember from 1962.

Became a big fan of the North Shore when I moved to Milwaukee. Knew a few guys who both rode it and modeled it. Even though I no longer live there, I have DVDs and models. It is one of my favorite railroads. Many wonder if it should still be around today? My answer would be yes, although in a modified form with reduced service. If it had limped into the 1970's and the gas crisis, maybe it would have become part of a regional network like the South Shore. Unfortunately at its end, it needed massive investment in new equipment, etc. A lot of odds were stacked against it at the time.

Thank you.

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Getting a kick out those weak-sounding horns

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Thanks so much, Ed! Very wonderfully done!

This is the Chicago celebrated in the novels of Saul Bellow (Augie March) and James Farrell (Studs Lonigan) and Vivian Mayer. Grey skies much of the year, and snow on the ground for at least 3 months of the year. The electric railcars probably dated from the early 1920s.

This interurban line mostly paralleled the Chicago Northwestern commuter service, which still runs to Waukegan. Amtrak does Chicago-Milwaukee. The Shore Line was slow because it made many stops.

At 4:49, 5:13, notice the gauntlet tracks to let freight trains clear the station platform.

Dempster St. Station is now a Starbucks

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