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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 ...
1925 broadside advertising the South Shore Line railroad between South Bend, Indiana and Chicago, Illinois to highlight attractions on the line, such as the beaches at Dunes State Park. The railroad began a 3-year project in 2009 to replace all catenary on its line between Michigan City and Gary, some of which was nearly 90 years old. The ...
The Nantasket Beach Railroad opened in 1880 as a branch off the South Shore but closed in 1886. It was reopened in 1886 and electrified, running until 1932. Winter service was replaced by buses beginning in 1926. [5] Portions of the former railroad bed were converted to paved roads, including Fitzpatrick Way, in 1937. [6] [7]
The directors of the Air Line voted for a corporate name change on July 30, 1904: The Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway Company (South Shore Lines). [8] In 1907, with the easing of monetary pressures, property acquisition, engineering, and construction began again under the direction of a new promoter, James B. Hanna. [9]
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.
Monon Railroad – 1956–1971 Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Amtrak, Metra: 1947–1971 Alton Railroad: GM&O: 1931–1947 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: Amtrak, NIRC: 1928–1982 Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad: NICTD: 1925–1990 1925–1972 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway – 1969–1971 1925–1930s 1922–1925 ...
South Bend is a train station in South Bend, Indiana. It is served by Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited between Chicago, Boston and New York City, and Floridian between Chicago and Miami. The station was built by the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad in 1970; South Shore Line trains continued to use it until 1992.