Randolph St. to Kensington (Metra) -
Kensington to Michigan City -
Michigan City to South Bend
Clicking on a photograph will open a new page with larger photos and a little more info about the station.
Michigan City to South Bend
 Hudson Lake
South Bend Airport (formerly Michiana Regional Transportation Center)
 
The end of the line for Eastbound trains, the South Shore operates from a high level platform at the east end of the
South Bend Airport with a ticket office inside the terminal building.
 
 
Bendix - This is a stop for special service trains to South Bend. There are three 8 car unloading places along this
street, where special trains stop to unload passengers. The passengers are then taken by coach to their final destination in
South Bend, usually Notre Dame stadium. This stop relieves the burden on the South Bend Airport station, where the high level
platforms can only serve two cars per side, and connections to charter coaches would be a problem.
South Bend Amtrak Station - This station building housed the final Eastern stop of the South Shore Line in South Bend
from 1970 when the South Bend street running section was abandoned until 1992 when the new station was opened at the South Bend
Airport. The building is still used for the South Bend Amtrak station. There is a small freight yard just West of the station.
Randolph St. to Kensington (Metra) -
Kensington to Michigan City -
Michigan City to South Bend
Some of the information in the track diagrams is based of diagrams by Bill Vandervoort available on
South Shore Rail Tips Page of the
Chicago Transit/Metra Railfan Page,
however corrections, yard info and photographs have been added to the diagram, the diagram has been flipped to run
west to east, and the focus of the coloring has been changed to elecrification rather than signalling. The photographs
on this page and connected pages were taken in 1998 - most on September 16th and September 27th, 1998.
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