The Old South Shore (America's Last Classic Interurban Railway)
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By the late
1970s, the
Chicago,
South Shore and
South Bend Railroad was living out the last years as a step-child of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. The
C&O; had purchased the South Shore in
1965 as a bridge route for its freight business.
A decade later, the drain on revenues from extensive passenger operations was taking its toll on the 91 mile railway running from downtown Chicago to
South Bend, Indiana.
Born shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the South Shore had been the sturdiest of
Samuel Insull's network of
Midwestern electric interurban railways and it managed to survive on that strength when all the others faded away. By
1976, the paint on the cars was chipped and frayed, and th
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