YouTube Video Posted of CTR Passenger Train

[TBurke]

I just uploaded video taken with my camcorder of the Chicago Terminal (CTR) passenger train heading back from the former Peerless Confectionary spur on August 23, 2008.  It was taken from the platform of the Caritas private car which was shoved south down Lakewood by the CTR SW-8 locomotive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYywAJUEXc

YouTube forced me to compress it to CD-ROM quality to fit given its length.  I also stripped out the audio since there were private comments made by the Iowa Pacific owner in the background that he probably did not intend to be posted.

The video runs for just under ten minutes and it covers the trip from North Lakewood Avenue south of Diversey Parkway to where the train stopped north of Altgeld in one of the parking lots for the Lakeshore Athletic Club.

[tom mann]

Really neat!

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tom mann
http://www.chicagoswitching.com

[chuck]

That copper seems a bit excited!!

Thanks for sharing.

-=Chuck=-
Mail: chuckjanda@hotmail.com
Home: http://www.chucksphotospot.com

[TBurke]

He was excited about escorting the train.  He also called in the tow trucks after consulting with what appeared to be a police captain first.  A yuppie walked up and made a sarcastic comment to him that the effect that trains don\'t belong there anymore-and that was a mistake on the part of that arrogant yuppie let\'s just say.

[mark_k]

Tom, I thought you were avoiding Peerless and environs out of morbid grief?

[TBurke]

Mark et al

I made an exception to my vow to avoid the north end of the C&E Line after Peerless was gone for this historic event.  I figured at my age I could not wait another 90 years for a passenger train on the C&E since the previous passenger train was in 1918.

It was still sad and disorienting to see a huge expanse of leveled brick and other debris where Peerless once stood.

Tom