Chicago, South Shore & South Bend
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Chicago South Shore and South Bend RR History
- ARR Reporting Marks - CSS
- Class III railroad with connections to Class I in Illinois and Indiana.
- The line was operated as the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad (CSS&SB) until it went bankrupt in 1989, when the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD), formed in 1977 to help fund the line, took over the CSS&SB's passenger operations. The line's freight service was picked up in 1990 by the new Chicago SouthShore and South Bend Railroad, owned by Anacostia and Pacific, which took over freight operations after acquiring the Kensington and Eastern Railroad (the piece of the railroad in Illinois) from the Illinois Central Railroad in 1996.
- The CSS&SB on the former Indianapolis, La Porte and Michigan City Railroad and Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville Railroad, once part of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (Nickel Plate) system, from Michigan City southeast to Dillon (southeast of Stillwell), bought from Norfolk Southern in 2001. Via trackage rights it connects to many other railroads in the Chicago area.
- The CSS&SB's primary businesses are coal and steel, the coal delivered to the Michigan City and Bailey(Burn Harbor) generating stations owned by Northern Indiana Public Service Company. The CSS&SB also serves many online customers along the line.
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