Chicago-bound passengers board a westbound South Shore train at Hammond. These rugged old interurban cars, more than fifty years old at the time, would soon be replaced.

A two-car set of the South Shore's classic Pullman heavyweight interurbans from 1927 hums along under the wires near Portage, IN, on its way to South Bend. Conrail's former NYC mainline is in the ... (more)