Metra Electric 316, 315 at 71st & South Shore Dr.

[MrZkr123]

does anyone know if amtrak will start using these lines?

[trainhater14]

w0w gay

[JLJ061]

@trainhater14 I guess you can relate. lol

[ccsd0601]

you should do a youtube clip on the Marynook area.

[artistmac]

I'm going to wait till the spring. With the winding streets and all those flowers blooming and trees leafing out, it'll be a knockout!

[sega31098]

Lucky Chicago. In the United States, there are many electric regional rails, commuter rails and even an electric Amtrak line, and Canada doesn't even have an electric commuter rail on any sort.  Every intercity/commuter train in Canada uses diesel and they dismantled all of the electric rails (except light rails and subways).

[pauldionne]

@sega31098 - There is an electric suburban running in Montreal. From Central Station to Deux-Montagnes (roughly 25 miles - 40 km). It's been in operation for some 90 years and still going strong.

[sega31098]

@pauldionne

Oh, that's great!

[TheWwf4792]

i live down the street from here

[trainiac3]

look a the idiot at 18 seconds

[artistmac]

If that train had been going any faster, he'd have been ground beef on a bicycle.

[unionpacifictrain]

that was awesome

[Andrewsaxamophone]

It returned on the same main?

[artistmac]

Yes. I found out later on Metra was doing Saturday maintenance work.

[Indicastixx]

Ahhh the memories. I used to live in the Michigan Beach hi rise (19th floor)on South Shore. 71st St was my Metra stop. DAMN, I miss my old South Shore hood.

[MogulMonkey]

I used to live at 72nd & Southshore, and the 71st station was my Metra stop.

I loved walks in this neighbourhood and even in-land a bit (where I was warned it was "dangerous"...but it never was for me). Lots of people out, playing music, driving slowly. I found everyone really nice and friendly. This was in the early 90's.

My apartment overlooked the country club and, with that view, it was like living permanently on vacation. R. Kelly moved out of our building once he became famous.

[sfd210]

I would like to thank you for posting this video. I grew up on the south side in the 1960's.  Sometimes, instead of using our car, we rode the train or the "L" to go to downtown or other places. When I was a little boy, we went to a movie theater at 71st and Stony Island to watch "Born Free" (about some lion). When we came out of the theater and I saw the trains running down the middle of the street, I wanted to take a ride the train. Eventually, I got my wish when I was seven.

[lamedicina98]

I used to live in this area in the mid to late 1970's. I remember when the Country Club was eggshell white. Also the train that you see used to be called the IC (Illinois Central) before it was called Metra years later. As the previous person had said this neighborhood started to go down the tubes in the late 1970's as jobs left and drugs poured in the southside. I was back there a few years ago and it appears to be coming back! It's just so far from downtown if that's where you work.

[twillkickers]

I love this place! The country club is so nice. Nice Metra station too. South Shore is really a great neighborhood, I was never in it back when things were bad. Course I might have a higher tolerance level than some people, was it really THAT bad? I mean rich people can't stand a lot of things haha, they would probably block out nearly any neighborhood in a wink. That's too bad Jackson seems so hypocritical, I was a big fan of his. Still, he's a politician, I guess he can't be too honest.

[artistmac]

The decline didn't happen in a vacuum. As in so many changing neighborhoods in the 60's, 70's and 80's, redlining was a significant factor. For example: from 1970 to 1990, South Shore Bank (now Shorebank) made exactly TWO home improvement loans in the neighborhood it was named for. (And mortgages and small business loans? Please.) Same with the insurance companies. Something is very wrong with that picture. Nice to see this area coming back.

[sfd210]

I agree that it is nice to see this area coming back--especially since I grew up on the south side and have fond memories of this part of Chicago.

[jovanvictoria]

nice video man