IRM: North Shore Line Day 2023

60 years ago, a unique railroad closed in January 1963. The Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee was a fan favorite as being the fastest and greatest interurban railroads of all time. Seeing the fast interurbans speeding up and down their tracks from Chicago IL to Milwaukee WI. In 2023 the Illinois railway museum put together a special anniversary event in honor of the North Shore Line. All day on January 21, 2023 the museum brought out all their North Shore equipment from Interurbans, a street car, the electroliner, and more! During the event the volunteers put on a great show running separate interurban trains from two car trains to the 5 car night special in the evening. We owe the IRM a lot of gratitude for their hard work for putting this event together and will be remembered forever by railfans.
Special thanks to: Jim Martin for the videos and the IRM for special permission for filming most scenes on mainline.

[@albertcarello619]

Part of the museum trackage sure looks like the South Shore Line!!!

[@letraindejardin]

Magnifique ! Merci pour ce formidable travail de conservation. Au moment où la planète s'interroge à propos de la décarbonation des transports, voici un témoignage de l'intelligence du passé !

[@mattnawn5019]

Thanks for sharing this video. Very enjoyable!

[@platform1productions297]

Fantastic event, looking forward to celebrating the 70th anniversary of the museum this year. It was awesome meeting you there I hope our channels appear at the museum again soon! Great video👍

[@kahunatiki6498]

Exceptional video!!! Thank you!!

[@craignehring]

What a nice video, the old and the present day, some are had to tell apart !!

[@Harveycartoonlvr11]

What an EXCELLENT Video! I want to shake your hand while I get a Klennex to wipe the TEARS from my eyes as the scene from about 9:12 reminds me so, so, much of the South Shore Line's Orange Cars that had that very same A-2 Type Horn, and going 45-50 mph down the Right Of Way through Gary, Indiana between 2nd and 3rd Avenues! It is no doubt that the Railroading World lost a GEM when the North Shore exited from the business! Again, an EXCELLENT piece of work! :)

[@thetrainseekers1]

Wow! That is so cool! Great history and thoroughly enjoyed the video!

[@TWIGYBNSF]

Thanks a bunch!

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

Footage at the beginning is awesome! Love the shots of interurbans at speed!

[@Gregory47342]

👏👏👏👏👏👍🚃🚃🚃Great video thanks for posting. I wish I could have been a rider on one of those runs. The night run would have been nice.

[@dawnarnold3176]

Beautiful work on this video, and a great job done by the folks at IRM! Cheers, D.P. Arnold

[@johndonlon1611]

Terrific video!! Restoration on NSL equipment has been beautiful at IRM and a trip to the museum is a must for every rail enthusiast.

[@TWIGYBNSF]

Thanks! Also, East Troy has done fantastic work, and they're working on another merchandise dispatch car

[@johndonlon1611]

@@TWIGYBNSF I wish IRM could engineer a trade-off with Seashore to get #415 diner car. That woud be the iceing on the cake for any NSL collection.

[@StevenBe9799]

The last run of the night was the best

[@TWIGYBNSF]

Definitely!

[@brandonharrischannel7516]

I’ve been there

[@mynorthshore]

Excellent work!

[@TWIGYBNSF]

Thank you!

[@karatransitfur]

Loved this! Where did you find the Jim Martin footage? I’ve been looking all over for NSL footage but can’t seem to find much.

[@TWIGYBNSF]

I had asked him directly for special permission to use his videos

[@marvwatkins7029]

Unfortunately, the Electroliner could not operate.