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29 wires were cut for the 29 connections that need to be made from the driver to the nixie board. Effort was made to keep them all a similar length.
Passenger Station and Passenger Car 16
Tremont, Indiana
Date: October 10, 1960
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Calvin E. Senseny (#48-6)
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Photograph taken at 9:03 am. The Tremont passenger station for the Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad is visible on the left of the photograph.
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The following news item appeared in the December 10, 1925, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
TREMONT TO GET NEW R. R. DEPOT
Electric line improvements of the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railway company, recently taken over by the Insull interests, have undergone a marvelous transformation. Twenty-nine steel passenger gars now are being built by the Pullman company, two of which will be dining cars, two will be parlor cars and 25 will serve as passenger coaches. They will be ready for service by July 1, next year, it was announced.
A force of 900 men is now engaged in making improvements on the line between Kensington. Ill., where the South Shore connects with the Illinois Central railroad, and South Bend. Ten miles of old 70 and 80 pound rails between Kensington and Hammond have been replaced with 100 pound rails and the entire track from South Bend to Kensington has been resurfaced with more than 300 cars of cinder ballast. Approximately 11,000 pairs of angle bars have been used. All block and other signals have been rebuilt along with new telephone lines for complete and satisfactory communication. The entire right of way has been cleared of undergrowth, improving the range of vision at highway crossings.
Portions of the rehabilitation work now under way include rock ballasting of the section from Kensington to Hammond, 60 per cent completed; one mile of new steel trusses for support of trolley wires to be installed between Kensington and Hammond; fencing gage at work west of Gary, erecting 54-inche fence with barbed wire strand at top on edges of right of way; steam shovel at work west of New Carlisle widening cuts and grading.
Preliminary arrangements are being made for starting work on the Dunes highway bridge head and plans are under way for the bridge across the Industrial highway. At Tremont the railroad has purchased a building 40 feet square, which formerly stood at the east of the highway crossing at that point. It is to be permanently located as a station on a spot directly north of the old station site. It will be remodeled both on the interior and exterior. A long siding will also be constructed at Tremont to care for special parties and other extra trains carrying visitors to the dunes region. Forty new shelters to be used at local stops are being built.
Source:
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; December 10, 1925; Volume 42, Number 40, Page 8, Columns 1-4. Column titled "Tremont to Get New R. R. Depot."
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I ran by this exact spot about 20 minutes earlier, and the sun was sitting just below the lowest of the wires perfectly behind the clouds. By the time I ran back and got my camera, it had fallen below the trees. At first I was disappointed, but I like the way the tree blocks the direct light of the sun.
Looking up at the CN Tower through an overhead mesh of street car wires.
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