Street Running Trains, Michigan City Indiana Street Runner Trains! South Shore Line Railway & Amtrak
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- Unusual streetrunning trains in Michigan City Indiana. Railroad maintenance is going on while replacing the street running railroad track on Eleventh Street. South Shore Line commuter trains and freight trains share the tracks and there is a nearby line with Amtrak. We filmed several trains going down the street on August 11, 2017. We stayed at the Bridge Inn at Michigan City to watch trains cross a 1905 bridge that closes about 15 minutes before trains arrive. This video shows 2 Amtrak trains cross the bridge along with 3 streetrunning trains. CSX shares the line over the historic bridge with Amtrak. Future videos will show more Amtrak trains here and near the Michigan boarder. We also stayed at the Golden Sands Motel to watch trains near the boarder of Indiana and Michigan.
UPDATE: The street running section has been changed. This Street running track is no longer street running track since around 2023.
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New definition for 'sharing the streets'.
Robert Lopresti i live in the state of michigan and ita bery bice here in the summer
That locomotive looks cool rolling down the middle of the street.Thanks for posting the video.
When I was growing up, my Mother taught me a little song about a railroad that ran through the middle of the house, where the parlor used to be. I haven't thought about that song in ages, until I saw the railroad that ran down the middle of the street! Great video, enjoyed every minute of it! Thank you for sharing
Wow, cool to see trains running there in the middle of the road in town! Nice place, too!
one of these days im going to buy a house on that street so i can watch trains roll by all day
I think Streetrunning trains are the coolest thing I've ever seen
The South Shore line runs from South Bend, In. To Chicago Millenium station. With stops along the south shore cities in Indiana. Stopping in Hudson Lake, Michigan City, Indiana Dunes, Portage, Gary Metro, Gary airport, East Chicago and 6 stops in Chicago. Full electric powered commuter rail.
I love these street running trains of US it is a treat for railfans
This is one of my favorites. "You guys get lost?" Engine seems unreal.
Very interesting video to us Brits. Firstly street running is rare in UK and the electric train had almost every pantograph up on the live wire. We were over in the USA in May and travelled from New Jersey to Seattle including riding the "Empire Builder"
Tuckaway can you imagine our govs health and safety form for a passenger street running train, crikey.
It means the carriages are independently powered & only have control jumpers. We don't do that to avoid causing a catastrophic rippling effect in the wires. Theoretically. But then, they don't run high speed. The last street running I saw was in Weymouth.
I took the Cardinal from Chicago to Philadelphia and the Lake Shore Limited from New York, Penn Station to Chicago. It was an amazing trip. From Chicago to DC they run diesel-electric locomotives, and from DC to New York they run electric locomotives. They then switch back to diesel somewhere around Buffalo.
The South Shore Line is perhaps one of the most unique commuter operations in the entire world. Definitely the US. There are large street-running sections of commuter rail all over the country, but most have grade crossings. The Amtrak runs along the street for a good way through Chicago if you ride the California Zephyr.
3:14 "But wait! There's more!!!" Haha, nice.
Great video. I've lived in Colorado for 40 years now and have never once seen a train coming down the street like this. What a sight! 😄
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'd love to live in the old station on this line!
Wow ! that bridge could do with painting!
Imagine if a TGV ran through there everyday.
Thanks for the nice video +16 dear friend, i wish you a beautiful Sunday and sunny week,
friendly greetings Jutta 🌼😊
Your videos are great, I like to see everything you bring on tape. Many thanks for your filming it's a good source to learn about the states.
I've ridden the South Shore from South Bend to Chicago and back previously- and it surprised me as a passenger the first time when the train was running down the street and cars passing it on both sides
Fantastic shots !. What a great sight :)
Nice video. Chicago,IL Millennium/Randolph Station to South Bend,IN. The South Shore Line also runs along the Metra Electric District Line in Northeast Illinois. The only South Shore train station train that is on the Illinois Indiana border is Hegewisch train station.
Love it!!!!
Best train channel intro music ever! ^. .^
Hi, very cool video !! Dutra train driver in Brazil !! hug
That single engine looked funny driving with traffic. It looked like it stopped for the red light, lol
Thank you for your video's. I feel like I am back home. Great Job and keep them coming. Fogdan out!
Awesome street running video. I don't have those in my state
Nobody really does. This wasn't ever all that common and this is one of the last to do it anywhere.
that used to be an iais (iowa interstate)
Ttrucker the railroad is called "iowa interstate." it runs through iowa and parts of illinois
Great!commuter train EMUs(electrified-multiple-unit interurban passenger train) can let the passengers embark or disembark on the street!I always miss the golden age of interurban train transport in America.See you! *^_^*
Very cool. Nice neighborhood too. Be a nice street to live on minus the horns, grew up by the tracks and trains put me to sleep with the thump, thump.
Wow, nicely painted unit there. Hope no one gets dirt on it. :)
That little Whitcomb is SOOOO CUTE
Just a note to your fine video, they are not double tracking 10th or 1th Street, they are replacing sections of track. This may all go away since Michigan City is trying to eliminate street running by using the former C&O line to the south.
I think it would be real cool if that locomotive would pull up in somebody's driveway and the engineer would get out and holler Hey Honey I'm home...or Alan would get off and try to peddle his stupid orange on somebody...lol
Street runners are the coolest thing! Great video brother. Can't wait to see more of the Bridge Inn vids. Have a great week. Cheers, Dan
🔔Happy Tuesday!💜 Thumbs up as always👍
From the other side of the Atlantic - thanks for a really enjoyable and interesting video.
I've always considered ralway one of the best inventions by man and must have priority face cars and trucks even on the roads and ststreets like here in USA North-East
The South Shore line runs from South Bend to downtown Chicago. The Michigan City stretch is considered a bottleneck to the rail line because it is double-tracked for most of the journey to Chicago. There is planning in motion to also make it double-tracked through this stretch and to cut off MOST of the cross streets. They also want to separate the rails from the street traffic. There will be many houses demolished to accommodate this. It would still follow the same route, but be much different. There were years of debate to re-route roughly 1/2 mile north or south of this street ultimately settling on staying where they are. The Amtrak does not street run here, but does cross this line just beyond where the camera was filming. The shown footage only showed about 1/2 of the total street-running portion.
Thanks for the info! I plan on going back this summer. I want to film a long freight train going down the street.
@@JawTooth Amtrak does street run through large portions of Indiana, just not in Michigan City. I rode the Cardinal to Philadelphia and it runs the street until it hits Kentucky. There is a fence around the tracks though.
This is really cool!! I love your channel!
Michigan City has to be one of the most epic railfan locations in the Midwest. Plus it's gotta be a neat place to live, if you like trains. Nice to have those kind of commuter options too! I just dig street running trains!
I totally agree! I have a street running playlist with street runners from a bunch of different locations. check it out
Love your videos jaw.tooth it's interesting to see all of the different rail lines.
Cool. Excellent video Brian.
I loved the second trains horn never heard that before
1:20 11th street! Love this track!
I'm french and this is amazing and unusual for us here, trains doe'sn t cross Streets no more for long time in my despite !
I'm working on another street running video that I just shot in Kentucky. Thanks for watching!
when i was child only few trucks on the roads beetween stations and enterprises, so often wagons were managed with little tractors on rails traks built in the pavement and the Streets I used pass hours at looking that.It's always very funny for me to see trains on streets.
Great epic video...I like IT!!!! All the best from Romania!!!!
Thank you very much!
Street trains are awesome
Thats amazing going down the street like that. PS I added you to my favorites on my page
Check out CSX freight trains and Amtrak going through Ashland, Virginia on the main line from Washington/NY to Florida. There's about a mile of street running there, which is insane given the volume of heavy trains on a busy two-track line and road traffic. Another street running hotspot though freight only as far as I recall is St. Mary's, West Virginia.
Nice! Street running is my favorite! Awesome catch!
Great video big this up have a beautiful and blessed week
Nice video, nice place you stayed at, at end of video!!!
We have the C&NW UP Metra going through my town but boy I wish we had a street running train.
Man That's Super Awesome
Cool video! Love the street running. 😎👍
Great catches and video! Awesome location too.
Nice one!!
Awesome video. You do a great job!
Super cool!! Thanks for sharing! Like 469 and we watched in FULL view!! 👍👌😎😁
bravo! Big Thumbs up! Have a happy day:) Hanna and Mia
I like the CSS Horn & locomotive
Way back in the 70s my dad got to open that swing bridge in Michigan City,IN
A small correction to your description: Amtrak and South Shore do NOT share trackage through Michigan City, but they do cross each other on the west side of town. Amtrak has its own line from Michigan and runs on the north side of town.
I went here and rode a passenger train down the street
This guy is so proud of his city lol
Back when this line was built (early 20th century?), there was street-running in South Bend and East Chicago also. The line through Michigan City was double track, which didn't leave much room for cars.
Awesome catches!
I'd want to live in one of those houses
great videos
Fantastico video complimenti Jaw ❤ ❤ ❤
WOW !! That is Awesome :D
sweet catches. nice.
Very nice video jawtooth
Thank you so much 😀
Good job filing it I like it keep up the good work and yes the person that is talking about how your friend does the split screen I don't like it earth please don't go that way I love how u film your clips keep up the good work jaw tooth please be waiting for the next one u film
jaw tooth is awesome
Nice video!
Good work jaw tooth
Thanks Jeff!
Nice Video 👍
This video was amazing Jaw Tooth!! I really enjoyed this so much!! You make train videos so much fun to watch!! 😄😄
Love your videos :) a defo like from me. Look forward to more, hope you have a blessed week :)
Great horn
Nice catch!
Hello Brian nice to see you my friend
Wow nice capture Great video Thumbs up!
Good stuff, Jaw! Dang, had I known you were going there, I would've tried to go filming with ya.
Very nice
I think the South Shore & the city wants to remove these tracks & reroute it
should mention that the former station is in that area where the passengers were dropped off
Yeah I would live there too
A bridge with a paint allergy?
Wonderful video
Very interesting video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice horse.
Dude, you could have visited the Hesston Steam Museum outside of Michigan City. They've got Standard gauge, narrow gauge and stationary steam engines. They have runs thru the woods, spectacular!
I did visit it. I have a couple videos of it
Hard to understand: old town, old tracks, why weren't better plans for each implemented? That is, with enough time to plan, why plan to have a major street running rail and not separated? Strange.
Public opposition about where to relocate the tracks.
@@JLJ061 They aren't going to relocate. They plan to double-track and cut off the cross streets.
Hi my friend, It is wonderful video
Nice!
Hey Jaw Tooth didn't I see you on the Chris Hanson show ?
Oddest "not an actual station" train station I've ever seen.
The Amtrak lets off in the middle of the street in Springfield, Illinois. I thought that was really goofy considering that's the Capitol.
Awesome :-)
What is the deal with all those pantographs? Why is it necessary for each unit to have 2 pantographs?
each train car is independently powered (each car has electric motors powering its wheels) they're basically locomotives that double as passenger cars. the train needs these extra pantographs because those electric motors take alot of juice to run, more than other electric trains with power units on either end with regular passenger cars. if all of it were sent through 1 pantograph or 2 it would probably overload and burn up. the extra ones prevent that by spreading out the electrical load.
Interesting given that many other trains only use 1 pantograph per train to do the same job.
Taking a close look, it looks like there are 3 sets of two cars and the rest are single cars. That means each single car and each set of two needs its own power to run. They must be connected by MU cables *multi unit* only and not be sharing power like unit trains like a high speed trains do between cars.
On the two car sets it looks like they to the regular car and walled off the door and put a window in its place leaving all the driving gear on to save on costs.
Every car is double-ended, meaning they aren't turned around at the end of the line. The driver simply walks to the other end of the consist to the cab, or another driver take over. Both ends of the line are dead ends.
That still doesn't answer why there are 2 pantographs on each car, and why every other pantograph is down. I understand if they are running low voltage, like 500VDC-1500VDC each car needs a pantograph, but why 2 for each car, since pantographs are bi-directional.
Today I saw 2 of the Cincinnati east terminal trains switching cars around at a ware house yard here in mariemont then grabbed them and took off to mt. Orab
Hoi Brian,wel wat was that?one e.train thats very interesting.very nice model and color the bridge need one big overhauling,no more rust but fresh paint. wel whe see here so manny trains,its the most busy railway here from Europe.i got next wonsday to Limburg Maastricht in total 550 kilometer in 1 day.south east from the Netherlands/German border. thanks for the nice video,greetings from tony.greetz:Peerke.