Where Notre Dame Football Specials Trains Used to Run-Norfolk Southern Line-1318 Woodward Avenue South Bend IN-November 21 2005
Continuing my series from earlier this week.
This view looks southwest along the Norfolk Southern line which though not officially abandoned was paved over at this grade crossing and others by an overly zealous City of South Bend that wanted the ROW for utility lines and a bike trail.
The car on the trailer appears to be a 1941 Studebaker Commander built right in South Bend.
At the date this photo was taken this line was in play as Bob Harris attempted to revive service on its as the South Bend Railway shortline despite fierce opposition from the city, Holy Cross College, and St. Mary's College. He was successful at the STB but ultimately gave up and the line is now the Coal Line Trail.
At one time this line was the busy New York Central Michigan Connecter which connected the NYC mainline to Chicago with Niles, Michigan. Into at least the 1950s charter trains carried football fans to Notre Dame over this line. Trains would lay over at either ND or the adjacent St. Mary's College campus to be cleaned, provisioned and await the return trips while the games took place.
The bridge in the distance over Portage Avenue replaced an earlier wooden trestle that carried both vehicles and streetcars of the Northern Indiana Railway up into 1940.
In its final years of operation in the 1990s it was used by Conrail to deliver coal to Notre Dame. Once NS took it over NS forced ND to truck coal to campus from a transload facility on the southwest side of South Bend.
Rescan of an earlier print at much higher resolution and quality.
Where Notre Dame Football Specials Trains Used to Run-Norfolk Southern Line-1318 Woodward Avenue South Bend IN-November 21 2005
Continuing my series from earlier this week.
This view looks southwest along the Norfolk Southern line which though not officially abandoned was paved over at this grade crossing and others by an overly zealous City of South Bend that wanted the ROW for utility lines and a bike trail.
The car on the trailer appears to be a 1941 Studebaker Commander built right in South Bend.
At the date this photo was taken this line was in play as Bob Harris attempted to revive service on its as the South Bend Railway shortline despite fierce opposition from the city, Holy Cross College, and St. Mary's College. He was successful at the STB but ultimately gave up and the line is now the Coal Line Trail.
At one time this line was the busy New York Central Michigan Connecter which connected the NYC mainline to Chicago with Niles, Michigan. Into at least the 1950s charter trains carried football fans to Notre Dame over this line. Trains would lay over at either ND or the adjacent St. Mary's College campus to be cleaned, provisioned and await the return trips while the games took place.
The bridge in the distance over Portage Avenue replaced an earlier wooden trestle that carried both vehicles and streetcars of the Northern Indiana Railway up into 1940.
In its final years of operation in the 1990s it was used by Conrail to deliver coal to Notre Dame. Once NS took it over NS forced ND to truck coal to campus from a transload facility on the southwest side of South Bend.
Rescan of an earlier print at much higher resolution and quality.