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[rippen100]

@ranus42 The cta "L" got 8 cars for rush hours and weekdays, on weekends it run 4 cars expect yellow line which it on run 2 cars but that becuz it only has 2stops.

[ranus42]

I just don't understand why there aren't more train cars? I'm from NYC and we have at least 9 cars per train line with the exception being the C and G lines.

[Yestrooper1]

You said at the end of the video you were headed to your Amntrak train to LA. Where were you coming from?

[howardkevinm]

@Yestrooper1 um considering he's in Chicago ill take a wild guess and say thats where he left from.

[19apav5L9]

muslim television amadiyyah (MTA)

[amtrc]

it wsould have been horrifying if chicago would have torn down all the el tracks

years ago look at the gas price in the 1970's i was hearing of some abandonment

of el track they would have been fool's. smart thinking to keep cta el's running

los angeles in 1959 and 1963 did a foolish thing to abandon rail trainsit but we had to build it back high auto gasoline prices

[Yestrooper1]

@amtrc After the February 1977 derailment in the loop on Wabash, Mayor Jane Byrne wanted to get rid of the Loop!

[josephvanorsby78]

no my uncle drives cta trains and the maximum they can go is 65

[josephvanorsby78]

thats not fair. you only recorded r slow zones. Everyone the cta goes from 55 to 65 mph. we have 1 express line and 2 subway lines.we r home of the longest subway platform.

[Amtrak1194]

@josephvanorsby78 if the CTA motormen run their trains over 55 mph they are alerted to overspeed and will be shutdown if they don't react to the alert sound. 

[ranus69]

This is great footage but I'm curious as to why they only have 4 cars and here in NYC we have 9 cars? And most of our trains in the outer boroughs are El's but they go much faster and they have express lanes. For some reason I always thought Chicago had express lanes.

[MeltedGeneral]

@ranus69 CTA will run 4 cars non-rush hour. Once rush hour hits, they'll either use 6 or 8 cars. Pink Line which only runs 4 cars even though its stations can handle 8, Green Line which can only handle 6, Purple Line Express which only runs during rush hour AND can only handle 6. Red and Blue Lines always run 8 except weekends. Yellow Line doesn't even enter Chicago. Orange and Brown uses 8.

Chicago has a lot of curves and Slow Zones and Purple Line Express has its own track...until Belmont.

[adelgado75]

NYC tore down many of their El lines. By the 1950's they tore down the 3rd Ave. El.

Andy the got rid of the trolleys and replaced them with buses.

[otis656]

why do they go so slow

[karlydoc]

Fucking hell the busiest intersection in the world,try the london underground and mainline thats rammed.......

[Larsky1010]

Sort of takes the "Rapid" out of Rapid Transit, if you ask me.

[clubpenguingodess]

the trains arrive every 5 to 10 minutes.

[PKingman]

Well done video.

[TheArthurAndersen]

themta, yep u got that right! NOTHING beats NYC when it comes to anything that has to do with a city, or anything that's part of a city. NYC is the ideal or perfect city. but chicago is up there too though!

[ProfessorIgor]

how often does a train go by ?? so often you won't even notice !

[4akaretajs]

it must be awful to live there if train is driving all the time behind your window

[juanlmesl]

@4akaretajs it reminds me of that directv commercial

[asannei]

Excelente video

[bowow614]

that was when the redline was detouring thru the loop

[Comwhiz2002]

Very nice

[murjax]

This place looks busy. I want to go to Chicago someday.