South Shore street running: Bruce Stahl captured an unusually powerful freight train for northwestern Indiana in April. To wit: six locomotives led by South Shore No. 805 haul four grain hoppers down a torn-up street in Michigan City, Indiana. Stahl captured this rapture of motive power on Sunday, April 10, 2022, on “Church” curve.
“The South Shore is working to double-track its main line between Gary, Ind., and Michigan City. As part of that project, commuter trains have been replaced by buses between the Carroll Avenue station in Michigan City and the Dune Park station in Porter, Ind..
For the time being, freight operations will continue overnight. This is also when passenger equipment will be ferried between the shops in Michigan City and Dune Park, the endpoint for operations to and from Chicago. But it is no longer possible to ride a South Shore train down the street. By the time rail service resumes this fall, the vast majority of the street-running train will be no more.
Construction will see 11th Street, which includes the street running, converted to a one-way street. The rail line will be shifted out of the roadway.” Quoted from a previous Trains News Wire story.
Whether you call it framing or whatever, I was told by email by NICTD that the double track would occupy half of 11th Street with the remaining half being one-way. So I would not classify that as being, “…shifted out of the roadway….”
Readers here regularly complain about low hp/ton trains. South Shore heard your cries and responded.