Riding South Shore From Michigan City to Chicago (part 1)

[ricardlupus]

Nice video! What's the odd-looking switch just before the platform that the train passes through around 10:40? Is it there so trains that aren't stopping pass farther from the platform or what?

[SouthShoreTrain]

@ricardlupus Yes your 100% correct on that. Express trains and freight trains stay to the left so they aren't so close to the platform

[JLJ061]

Metra and NICTD are working consecutively to rebuild Kensington Interlocking, to add a second main trackfrom the South Shore to join Metra north of 115th Street.

[CSS803]

Were you riding in the cab?

[SouthShoreTrain]

@CSS803 No. we were in the passenger part of the car looking thru the vistibule window and thru the front window. The conductor wouldnt let us up front because he didnt want to loose his job.