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The South Shore Line (reporting mark NICD) is an electrically powered commuter rail line operated by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD) between Millennium Station in downtown Chicago, Illinois and the South Bend Airport station in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The name refers to both the physical line and the ...
A former Chicago South Shore and South Bend "800" electric freight locomotive. The South Shore Line is the last remaining of the once numerous electric interurban trains in the United States. At its formation on November 30, 1901, the corporate title was the Chicago & Indiana Air Line Railway (Air Line). The Air Line was controlled by Frank and ...
The 11.5 mile line opened for service from Braintree to Cohasset, on January 1, 1849.However, the 17.5 mile portion between Cohasset and Duxbury, Massachusetts, was not built until 1871 when a new company, the Duxbury and Cohasset Railroad completed the line to South Duxbury and Kingston where it connected to the old 1844 Old Colony Railroad line to Plymouth. [1]
Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad: NICTD: 1925–1990 1925–1972 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway – 1969–1971 1925–1930s 1922–1925 1947–1969 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: PRR: 1917–1921 New York Central Railroad: PC: 1914–1968 1930–1968 Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad – 1910–1963
This is the last unaltered Insull Spanish style structure of the nine built on Samuel Insull's South and North Shore Lines. It still serves the 88-mile long South Shore Line, the last of the electric interurban railway systems. This station typifies Insull's interurban routes; it is the best representative of the South Shore Line's history. [8]
It opened in 1921 and closed in 1970, when the South Shore Line eliminated street running within South Bend. This station, situated on the site of a former Masonic Temple, was the South Shore's third South Bend station [1] and opened on August 3, 1921. [2] In 1928, the station was remodeled to resemble the 11th Street station in Michigan City.
South Bend Airport station, the current South Shore Line terminus serving South Bend, Indiana, was opened at South Bend International Airport on November 20, 1992. [1] The station's location on the east side of the airport was chosen due to the existence of a freight spur at that site, but this alignment was originally intended to be only temporary.
New Carlisle was a South Shore Line flag stop located at the corner of Arch and Zigler Streets in New Carlisle, Indiana.The station opened c. 1908 [1] and was built by the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana Railway whose line was immediately north of the South Shore Line.