Digital Live Sound Video: Westbound CTA Skokie Swift train at the Kostner Avenue railroad crossing. Skokie Illinois USA. August 2008.

I photographed this digital live sound video during My morning lunch break one hot Summer day, back in August of 2008.

Traveling over the only preserved remnant of the former Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee electric interurban railroad, a westbound Chicago Transit Authority yellow line / Skokie Swift train approaches the Kostner Avenue railroad crossing in north suburban Skokie Illinois.

After the Chicago, North Shore And Milwaukee went out of business due to bankruptcy in January of 1963, the segment from Howard Street terminal in downtown Evanston Illinois, to the Dempster Street station in Skokie Illinois was purchased by the Chicago Transit Authority, rebuilt, and opened for operation on April 30th 1964 as "The Skokie Swift" line. This line, was part of the former North Shore's own Skokie Valley mainline.