The high-definition videos are posted to YouTube and cover the line northbound to Howard and southbound to 95th/Dan Ryan with on-screen text identifying each station stop. Each video is shot in time-lapse format to reduce the actual “trip-time” to roughly nine minutes.
“In the first-ever documentation of its kind, the CTA has created a ride along the length of each rail line,” CTA says about the productions. “Shot in HD, you can now experience the ‘L’ like never before from the vantage point of the rail operator. You can even transfer between lines.”
Remarked one transit observer, “With all of the hype about not being allowed to film on some transit systems—PATH for example—I wonder what security experts think of this CTA video? Some transit systems don’t even want passengers to have the ability to look out of the front windows, let alone shoot videos.”
For a Red Line diagram and route guide to accompany the videos, go to www.trainsitchicago.org.