Englewood L Chicago CTA

[Yestrooper1]

There is no 58th St station. There's one at Garfield, then 51st.

[msibnsf]

The Englewood "L" never went any farther south then west 63rd Place. The Normal Park branch left the main line at Stewart JCT and went south as afar as 69th ST. I don't know what you are referring to when you say "Englewood Area 73th(sic) South Morgan."

D. Harrison

[DLR1732]

Englewood Area 73th South Morgan.

[MrDwb721]

Wow, lived right there at the tracks at 5910 Michigan, which you can clearly see at 1:18 on the video to the right.

[megabrolawncare]

that is a kinda bad neighborhood

[qoeste]

I hear that this is the most dangerous "L" line on the CTA

[granskare]

now this sounds like a Chicago guy giving the announcements :) I used to ride the el when I was a kid in the 1940s,,,4 cents for all day, including transfer....hershey chocolate...the real thing, not like today, was a penny...:)

[condiersea]

@granskare wooooooooow 4 cents?? lucky, now i buy an all day pass because its just too much money if you plan on taking a train and a bus.

[boilerbob7]

You can clearly see the remains of the stations jutting out from the structure at State Street, 61st Street, and Wallace, Wallace was a convenient connection to the passenger trains at Englewood Station. (the west one)

[uptowndc]

Perhaps its just me, but shouldn't elevated subways/railways have guard rails?

[ChrisSchwanrez]

@uptowndc no.. not in chicago.. they do when the ppl are off the train

[Maxxee01]

In the 90s or not, it still looks like World War 3 hit this place

[Jaye49]

I never knew it was a Harvard station either

[msibnsf]

@Jaye49 All CTA "L" lines had many more stations in the past then the number they have today. Many of the "L" lines were built before 1899 and they competed with the streetcar lines. The streetcars stopped at every block and the "L"s stopped every second block. The Englewood branch when finished in 1907 had these stations: Loomis, Racine, Halsted, Parnell, Harvard, Princeton/61st, Wentworth, and State.

DH

[Jaye49]

I never knew it was a wentworth station

[msibnsf]

The slow zones were due to weak steel structure in most places out on the Englewood branch.  Not all the rehab work got completed even during the Greenline shutdown.

DH

[talentscoutjoe]

Why is it going so slow?...

[souleater0815]

You are missing the gunshots!

[abinniss]

Uh, its broad daylight.

[boilerbob7]

Great vid. I lived on 61st Place as a kid in the late 40s. There was a station at 61st Street back then that we always used. The Normal Park branch went south just after Harvard. This vid was after the State Street staion was torn down. All those trestles have been replaced, and the only stations remaining are Halsted and Ashland.

[RennyGd]

Hey, I liked the el trains when I lived in Chicago. They had character, like the city. So what if there a little slow. Whats your hurry antway.

[granskare]

nice :) I rode the el in the 40s when I was a kid...cost me 4 cents...expensive :)

[mznsc]

i hate da green line 2 high up

[howardkevinm]

the CTA is old it rides like sand paper, half the structures are older than the US, no wonder CTA has so many damn derailments.

[fokkerairbus]

C^MON SO MANY STOPS AND SLOW RUNS

[isaachaaze3]

how similar is the cta and the mta in ny?...I know the mta is larger but for anyone who's rid in both how do they compare?...and to add to that how does NY and CHI compare to each other?

[lJohnnyTheFoxl]

CTA: more bus riders than train riders.

Chicago is less dense than New York. New York seems to be a little more consistent, too. In Chicago, you could be walking on a block with nothing but 4-flats that looks like it could be inner Brooklyn, and two blocks away you're on a thin, empty-feeling commercial street that looks like it belongs in LA or Phoenix.

[isaachaaze3]

I did hear something similar about Chi on some show...It has a city grid with barely anything to fill it in...I have a feeling that in a couple of years that they're going to try and fill it in and compete with NY again...there's only one NY, but I would like to see somewhere else built like NY, but with it's own feel to it.

[charlestonchewy]

As a kid growing up in the 80s, I can remember coming to Chicago from Waukegan to see my grandmother who lived on 64th and Langley at the time. My siblings and I would fall asleep during the long trip. You can always tell you're in Chicago from listening to the loud el trains coming down 63rd street. They were so loud, you can hear them from a long distance. It's not the same anymore after the CTA had shorten the terminal from University to Cottage Grove. Since then the noise have reduced.

[ess60620]

great video. lol the funny thing is this is about the same speed this train moves today

[TheAlaska123]

i know my grand use to ride thoses teel they change the hole dam thing

[rch1jr]

Did u see that old green and white bus at 1:53? I remember those when I was a child

[ChicagoJoe57]

Wow - this was prior to the automated voice system announcing the stops. I remember that conductor on the Lake "el". He had a distinct voice: "Your on a Loop bound B train, next stop is Ashland."

[DaFaceManXXX]

58th station is closed ever since they switch the routes

[RobertPaniagua]

This EL was very much similar (or even identical to MBTA's Washington Street Orange Line EL in Boston, only difference here in Chicago was that the trains ran alot faster that the MBTA Orange Line EL, which was restricted to 50 km/h

[tedj1957]

Great video, Loved seeing all the history with the Harvard and Wentworth stations which have been demolished and the Racine station which has been abandoned.