Chicago, South Shore And South Bend Railroad ex Chesapeke & Ohio EMD GP 7 # 1504. Michigan City Indiana. May 26th, 1980. Alan Gaines photograph.

                              I found this historic photograph from the Chicago, South Shore and
                              South Bend Railroad at My Link Page Fallen Flags.Org, which is
                              located to the right of your computer screen at
                              www.rr-fallenflags.org

                              Although the Chicago, South Shore And South Bend was an electric
                              powered interurban railroad operating between Chicago Illinois and
                              South Bend , hauling both freight and passenger trains via the high
                             voltage overhead catenary wires, the railroad was beginning to haul
                              some of it's freight traffic behind diesel locomotives by the 1960's.

                            During many visits I made to Michigan City Indiana beginning in the
                            mid 1970's, I fondly recall the railroad using these former C & O EMD
                            GP 7's, pulling long freight trains through downtown Michigan City
                            Indiana.

                           Railfan photographer Alan Gaines, photographed former C & O EMD GP 7
                           # 1504, at the railroad's Michigan City Indiana shops in May of 1980. The
                           Chicago, South Shore And South Bend ceased all electric freight operations
                            in 1981, and now the railroad's freight trains, are 100 percent diesel pulled.