Chicago's Lost 'L' Train to Milwaukee Wisconsin

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• DA

  @davidstout6051 · 3 years ago

  My dad was the Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel for the North Shore. He had to go to the US Supreme Court to get permission for the company to go out of business. Thanks for posting this video.

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• SK

  @skipk44 · 2 years ago

  My grandfather was an engineer aboard the North Shore LIne.  Near his home in south Milwaukee,  he would toot the horn which was a signal to my grandmother to get supper going.  Thank you for the video. Brings back many good memories.

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• MA

  @marving1416 · 3 years ago

  In general, it's a shame we don't use trains like we once did! It's more more pleasant than riding in an airplane nowadays!

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• DR

  @Drobium77 · 3 years ago

  amazing how 100 years ago, we had a better public transportation network than today?

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• BO

  @bobainsworth5057 · 3 years ago

  I joined the Navy in 1962 and went to Great Lakes for boot camp and school after boot camp until Dec. 1962. In that time I rode this train only once. Being a train fan I rode up front and the engineers door was open. I could see the speedometer , we were doing somewhere between 98 and 102 MPH woow it was fantastic. I didn't know it died one month after I left the area. What a shame!

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• TO

  @toddinde · 3 years ago

  The North Shore didn’t even lose money. It was just aging and needed updating, and with the Interstate coming, the handwriting was on the wall. It could have been saved for a pittance.

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• MA

  @matt_the_wildman_2112 · 3 years ago

  I live near the abandoned portion of the Skokie valley route...it's a shame it's gone

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• SH

  @Shayna11NM · 3 years ago

  My Dad and I used to take the train from Milwaukee to Chicago.  We'd hang out on Clark Street,  go to the museum with the lion statues out front and wander around people watching and having a bite before heading back in the evening.  He's been gone many years,  but some of my best memories are of us just enjoying time together. ❤️

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• UH

  @uhlexseeuh · 3 years ago

  I’m from a town located between Chicago and Milwaukee and my grandpa always talks about how he played hooky with his siblings and hopped on the train to Milwaukee or Chicago some days<br><br>Such a bummer we don’t have the same opportunity now

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• GE

  @GeorgeBobeck · 3 years ago

  One of the Electroliners is on display and is being restored at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL. &nbsp;The Electroliner at IRM still has some of the Libertyliner decorative details inside the train cars.

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• CH

  @Chris-Courage · 3 years ago

  I always wondered why there was no North shore train while a South shore exists.

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• NA

  @nativegerry335 · 3 years ago

  It&apos;s amazing to know the L did allow other trains to use it&apos;s right of way all because at one point it was actually connected to the larger rail network

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