Home Sweet Home…..took many train rides with my parents to visit relatives in the south, on steam powered passenger trains on the C&EI and IC railroads out of Dearborn St. Station. Even before the Prudential Building went up on Randolph and Michigan in 1957.
good film footage, I was the last leverman hired by the c.w.i. in 1980..i worked the 5 remaining towers and in 1979 when I was hired I was the switch tender at Pullman jct and 80th street...great memories from my teen age years
Those Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4s with their streamliner design, paint effects and unique tenders were simply something to behold, really beautiful locomotives. A really well made film of a variety of very different locos for different purposes. Those dispatchers had to have been "on the ball", there in Chicago, that's for sure. I reviewed your library of films, I just had to subscribe, you've got some very interesting vintage footage. Thanks for posting.
Almost all the east-west railroads came into the Chicago complex. They still do, despite passenger service having been taken over by the government's amtrak scheme. amtrak inherited the equipment and many of the older railroad's prized train names, but not track ownership, just trackage rights and platform space in the major terminals. The result is that freight traffic passing through the Chicago ambit gets priority over passenger trains but can still end up idling "in the hole"on long stretches of tripled track(a "Broadway"in American parlance.")while named passenger trains sitting the sun for half hour periods!
In the spot shown in 4:32 and other moments in the video was a tremendous boiler explosion back in the '40s or thereabouts. It blew the whole firebox wide open and you could see all the staybolt holes and the inner sheets with the loco on its side. I presume the crew died in that one, unless it sat there unmanned.
Robbi496 There are actually quite a number of coal bunkers, stations, and platforms and such still in existence all over the world. They’re just not economical to tear down.
Should be the only reason for coal mining today. Only to keep what coal fired steam trains we have left in this great country running. Great footage, thanks for posting/sharing. I am a fan of the old coal fired steam trains.
Fun video, but it seems like an inordinate amount of these locomotives are operating in reverse. That's to be expected in switchyard operations, I suppose.
Felix Cox they're backing into Dearborn to pick up outbound trains. I'm not if inbound trains had to be wyed and backed in at Dearborn, but they were and still are at Union Station.
Felix Cox Yes, in switching there is so much back and forth that “forward and reverse” in relation to the orientation of the cab are really unimportant. I pay zero attention to it when switching.
My right gonad for a time machine please!!! I wish I could've been a part of that kind of railroad action. The 21st Century and post-Staggers Act railroading is a total nothing by comparison. Might as well not even have Amcrap - it doesn't go where you want to go.
![A Day @ Dearborn Station, Chicago - 1959 [Classic Home Movies]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xTtWjCWTnEs/mqdefault.jpg)
Whoa! Seeing the Erie Pacifics in action surely is something!
They also ran in New Jersey too although non were saved sadly
Love this. Thank you and all who post these priceless pieces of history. 3.30.23
Home Sweet Home…..took many train rides with my parents to visit relatives in the south, on steam powered passenger trains on the C&EI and IC railroads out of Dearborn St. Station. Even before the Prudential Building went up on Randolph and Michigan in 1957.
good film footage, I was the last leverman hired by the c.w.i. in 1980..i worked the 5 remaining towers and in 1979 when I was hired I was the switch tender at Pullman jct and 80th street...great memories from my teen age years
I remember the guys in state line interlocked Whitt grubner cy Jim Fraser etc
Excellent video even without sound. I would loved to be around the railroads in those days
It is fortunate that this high quality footage has beed digitized.
That streamlined GTW was fantastic!
They didn’t waste anytime moving around in the yard,
Steam on.🚂🚂
wow cool to see them running backwards. I didn't know they could do that with a train.
It was easier to run them backwards then to turn them around.
Why Chicago was great place for railfanning back then, you could see almost every engine from coast to coast.
Those Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4s with their streamliner design, paint effects and unique tenders were simply something to behold, really beautiful locomotives. A really well made film of a variety of very different locos for different purposes. Those dispatchers had to have been "on the ball", there in Chicago, that's for sure. I reviewed your library of films, I just had to subscribe, you've got some very interesting vintage footage. Thanks for posting.
Very Beautiful Video 😊
One of the best steam videos I have ever seen. But some might at first think it's about Dearborn, Mi.
Amazing footage. Thanks for sharing this. Those GTW 4-8-4s vie for "best looking streamlined power" in my book. Terrific video!
Could not agree more ! ! !
Almost all the east-west railroads came into the Chicago complex. They still do, despite passenger service having been taken over by the government's amtrak scheme. amtrak inherited the equipment and many of the older railroad's prized train names, but not track ownership, just trackage rights and platform space in the major terminals. The result is that freight traffic passing through the Chicago ambit gets priority over passenger trains but can still end up idling "in the hole"on long stretches of tripled track(a "Broadway"in American parlance.")while named passenger trains sitting the sun for half hour periods!
What fantastic living beasts.
To just hear what this sounded like and the smells, there's so much activity....
Wally Harpp knew the operators the from 1974 to retired in 2006
Very nice parade.
In the spot shown in 4:32 and other moments in the video was a tremendous boiler explosion back in the '40s or thereabouts. It blew the whole firebox wide open and you could see all the staybolt holes and the inner sheets with the loco on its side. I presume the crew died in that one, unless it sat there unmanned.
2:08 driving through the yard like you stole it!!
2:19 Ah the god ol Wabash P1, aka almost nobody knows about this locomotive.
Misidentified as a Pacific, the seven P1s were Hudsons, rebuilt from 2-8-2 Mikados.
Some great footage of Monon steam at 21st Street starting at 3:06.
Amazingly enough, the Platforms at Englewood still exist, although in a bad state of repair
Robbi496 There are actually quite a number of coal bunkers, stations, and platforms and such still in existence all over the world. They’re just not economical to tear down.
3:06 :)
Nice video thank you!
Back from when America was still being run by real men, doing real things.
Should be the only reason for coal mining today. Only to keep what coal fired steam trains we have left in this great country running. Great footage, thanks for posting/sharing. I am a fan of the old coal fired steam trains.
The Wabash 700 is actually a 4-6-4
Quasimoto7 That number was on their roster as a 4-6-2.
Yes - they were rebuilds from older engines and were assigned to the Banner Blue.
This is short attention span theater. I would have liked to see more of each train.
Fun video, but it seems like an inordinate amount of these locomotives are operating in reverse. That's to be expected in switchyard operations, I suppose.
Felix Cox they're backing into Dearborn to pick up outbound trains. I'm not if inbound trains had to be wyed and backed in at Dearborn, but they were and still are at Union Station.
Felix Cox Yes, in switching there is so much back and forth that “forward and reverse” in relation to the orientation of the cab are really unimportant. I pay zero attention to it when switching.
I often feel quite inordinate.
LOL THOSE WERE THE DAYS THEY WERE SAYING, "THOSE DIESELS WILL NEVER TAKE OVER STEAM!!"
Silent film?
Ahh back before it became Dearbornastan.
You are mixing up Dearborn station Chicago, IL, with the city of Dearborn, MI.
@@pmsteamrailroading
My bad
The copyrights says the film was made in 1961... Why a silent presentation? Was RR management over 70 years of age.?
My right gonad for a time machine please!!! I wish I could've been a part of that kind of railroad action. The 21st Century and post-Staggers Act railroading is a total nothing by comparison. Might as well not even have Amcrap - it doesn't go where you want to go.
This is what I'm talking about. MAGA. Make America Great Again