Digital Live Sound Video: Southbound CTA Skokie Swift train crossing Oakton Street at night. Skokie llinois USA. Late September 2009.

I photographed this digital live sound video one night after work last year, on location at the Oakton Street CTA railroad crossing in north suburban Skokie Illinois.

A quick moving Chicago Transit Authority Skokie Swift train, aka the yellow line, is viewed crossing Oakton Street on an overcast evening during the very early Autum in late September of 2009. The segment from Dempster Street to East Prairie Road from 1964 until 2004 was operated underneath overhead catenary wire with pantograph equipped rapid transit cars. In the Autum of 2004, the entire line was converted to 100% Third rail operation. Notice the bright flash from a third rail shoe temporarily losing contact with the third rail.