South Shore Memories One Hour #SRP-SSM $39.95 1965 More than 30 years ago Myron L. Weber tracked the fabled South Shore in all it’s moods and seasons. Rain, Shine or the deep snows of winter, he was there to record the methodical workings of its freights with their mighty “Little Joes.” He caught the banshee moan of the high speed passenger trains, rocketing at record breaking speed thru the dunes between Gary and Michigan City. His camera studied the shops with their fascinating variety of aging engines and rolling stock. 1981 In 1981 Sunday River made its own study of the South Shore as it was then. The immense coal drags come booming down the tree lined streets of Michigan City. Both East and Westbound trips over the entire line as it then existed. In 1970 diminishing passenger traffic required the line to be lifted from the streets of South Bend. Trains terminated at Bendix. You’ll see passenger trains picking their way thru the maze of switches at Kensington and leaving the high speed automobiles in the dust where the South Shore paralled the Indiana Tollway. 1956 Frank Pfuhler shot the final version of the many lives of the South Shore. You’ll follow it from its original terminal in South Bend as part of a complete run to Randolph Street in Chicago. A venerable Pullman built, orange and maroon “battleship” goes rolling across the swells in the Prairie - the epitome of traditional interurban style. Plenty of 6000 horsepower “Little Joes” - perhaps the greatest power ever used by a short line. Lots of ex-New York Central R-2s (half the power of a Little Joe) from the Cleveland Terminal Railroad. Cab shots and car interiors in the howling snows of winter and the bucolic airs of summer. The five mile by-pass around East Chicago and the “new” line (1982) with Sumitomo stainless steel cars to South Bend Regional airport. back