NYC Spur to Waggoner's Oil Company-Kessler Boulevard at Elwood Avenue-South Bend IN-November 21 2005
Continuing my series from earlier this week.
This view looks west into the grounds of a fuel oil dealer once served off the New York Centra Michigan Central Connector rail line. Part of the spur is still visible in the distance.
The NYC Michigan Central Connecter line was officially abandoned around 2012 and the tracks taken up. It is now the Coal Line Trail for much of its distance, named after the final use for the line-Conrail trains taking coal to the University of Notre Dame power plant.
When NS took over Conrail in the South Bend area it dropped service to ND by the late 1990s and forced them to truck coal from an NS transload site on the southwest side of South Bend.
This line was in play in 2005 as Bob Harris attempted to revive service on it as the shortline South Bend Railway. He hoped to not only resume rail shipments of coal to ND but also attract other customers back to rail including potentially this fuel oil dealer. He gave up in the face of fierce opposition despite winning battles in the STB.
ND moved to using natural gas and off coal by the early 2010s.
The fuel oil dealer is long gone as is the rail line that served it. A vacant lot sits there today.
Rescan of an earlier print at much higher resolution and quality.
NYC Spur to Waggoner's Oil Company-Kessler Boulevard at Elwood Avenue-South Bend IN-November 21 2005
Continuing my series from earlier this week.
This view looks west into the grounds of a fuel oil dealer once served off the New York Centra Michigan Central Connector rail line. Part of the spur is still visible in the distance.
The NYC Michigan Central Connecter line was officially abandoned around 2012 and the tracks taken up. It is now the Coal Line Trail for much of its distance, named after the final use for the line-Conrail trains taking coal to the University of Notre Dame power plant.
When NS took over Conrail in the South Bend area it dropped service to ND by the late 1990s and forced them to truck coal from an NS transload site on the southwest side of South Bend.
This line was in play in 2005 as Bob Harris attempted to revive service on it as the shortline South Bend Railway. He hoped to not only resume rail shipments of coal to ND but also attract other customers back to rail including potentially this fuel oil dealer. He gave up in the face of fierce opposition despite winning battles in the STB.
ND moved to using natural gas and off coal by the early 2010s.
The fuel oil dealer is long gone as is the rail line that served it. A vacant lot sits there today.
Rescan of an earlier print at much higher resolution and quality.