Back when the South Shore Line carried express and checked baggage and had a streetfront station in downtown South Bend, package express gets loaded into combine 111 while the conductor watches. S... (more)
On a summer morning, a good crowd bound for Chicago boards a two-car South Shore train at the line's street front station in Michigan City, IN. At the time of the photo the CSS&SB's heavyweight in... (more)
Aside from that local bread, another South Bend tradition through the end of the 1960s was the sight of the South Shore Line's big heavyweight interurbans on the streets of downtown South Bend. Th... (more)
That’s what Milwaukee Road crews called that road’s twelve big electrics that were nearly identical to this South Shore example, seen here at ... (more)