Appreciate the video… it is a great resource for us modelers! Thank you

That piece of Clark Equipment was from the Benton Harbor Clark equipment right off the Benton Secondary?

Very cool presentation, I'm in Anderson Indiana, we have a lot of overgrown right of way in the area around me, old Pennsy line from Frankton to Elwood Indiana and the old Conrail line to New Castle Indiana!! The old Big 4 NYC/PC/Conrail North/ South Main line from Anderson to Marion and on to Elkhart yards is a block from where I grew up, not much traffic now since NS took it over after the merger, NS put in a wye at Alexandria so they could access their yard in Muncie!!!

Another great video!

as a niles/buchanan local i love learning about the lines and spurs in the area. i wish there was more information about the clark equipment spur since I love so close by to where it was but i can never seem to find much on it

Thanks to gorkmouse

Good another video

We would ride dirt bikes in Niles ..called the terminals .. I wondered if it was train derived ?

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

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Hi and thank you for another great video. Full of info. and I love seeing the maps and photos. Looking forward to the next video.

This is awesome, great info! Thank you for putting this together

Very interesting history. Thank You and looking forward to the next section.👍😊

Thanks for a great video. I can't wait for the next one.

6:00 that train is going south what yard did they use? Did they crossover the bridge by leeper park that's says South bend

The building you referred to as Niles Packaging was the warehouse for the Shell Truck loading facility and the Koch was Texaco

Growing up in the '70s, I remember this unusual crossing along with its rumble strip sound on McKinley. This of course was before the bypass. Never knew it serviced a power plant shortly thereafter. Great video!

That stub you talk about that came off the French Paper lead and crossed Fort Street was used to hold two or three gondola cars full of horse manure that was used in the mushroom plant's hot houses. They used to have an old Michigan crane with a toothless bucket that picked up the manure and loaded it into a couple of small single axle dump trucks. They would haul it to one of the hot houses where it was put on a conveyor belt and transferred to the growing areas n the hot house.

Great video, thank you!

Nice pic by corkhous

Amazing video!

Excellent presentation! I learned a lot.

The main building that was Michigan Mushroom is still there. The complex is used for multiple small businesses. The Benton Harbor secondary ran parallel to the river and crossed main street just east of the main street bridge running roughly through the center of the stage where concerts are held now and behind the Wonderland Cinema. It weaved it's way between the concrete plant and the fish market. When it crossed from the west side of Front st to the east it ran behind Niles Wastepaper and then behind Kawneer(current location of the YMCA and the South County building. My grandpa used to talk about riding the interurban when he was young(graduated in 1931). There was, and may still be, an interurban car built into a house on Starr Ave at Barron Lake. In William Taylor Jrs book, An American Colossus, he states that the multiple level crossing was the only of it's type(number of tracks) in the state of Michigan.

Amazing that so many trains were based out of Kalamazoo back in the PC / Conrail era. I can remember the line up to Benton Harbor crossing Napier Avenue, next to the large cemetery. So what routing would have lead the freight back to Kalamazoo? Did it run out on the Amtrak line?

Another excellent video. As of a few years ago, you could still find a few decaying railroad ties in the grass in the park off of Front Street in Niles just south of the skate park.

Great videos. I had a friend who grew up in Dolton around 60 years ago. He lived on State Street. A few blocks behind his house was a train yard. .

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The Benton Secondary is very interesting. On Fairland Rd in Niles you can see where the tracks were. I was reading about the owner of the general store in Fairland being struck by a train while he was riding on the tracks. They didn’t find out about him until Benton Harbor. Another thing I heard about is the train being stuck in the snow in the 70s.

I liked watching this very much thank you, all the way from the UK. Please keep these videos coming, the history is very enjoyable to watch and listen to.

I lived in Niles across the river from French Paper,I remember when my kid was little us walking down and watching Conrail shoving box cars across the bridge into FP thanks for posting this 👌

I love the rail heritage of this whole area. Thank you for the education.

Back in the 70s my ex had an aunt that lived on Willow St. In Mishwauka. There was an old rail line on the opposite side of Willow. Can you tell me what road that line was I used to walk it.

Boy that rings a bell Niles chemical paint. Talk about a super fun site..

I knew the lady and her family that only paper business in Niles. She lived almost be a hundred if I remember

I had just watched your video about the 1968 penn central derailment that happened in Covington Indiana. I was wondering if you would be willing to interview my dad about what happened, because he grew up there and knows some smaller details about what happened.

7:00 love that whistle

Excellent!

Man, i grew up 5 minutes away from the Paw Paw stop, never rode the KLSC, I was 9 years old when this video was taken! I've stopped and photographed all of the intersections shown in 2022. To "time travel" like this is so cool!

Fun to watch. Grew up not far from Olive and Western so all of these photos brought back fond memories. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks you for sharing

Great stuff!

Winklers crossing Henry Winkler owns it

I really enjoy these railroad archeology lessons. Great job !

Thanks so much for this video! I grew up in MIchigan City in the 50's and early 60's and was interested in the South Shore. But as a kid was unaware of all the CSS&SB freight activity in South Bend. Very interesting with great photos of some of the sidings and customers.

Thanks for that and Hi from the UK, again. It was real good learning about all that Railroad-served Industry. I'm looking forward to Pt.2, but I hope that the NICTD are able to make it closer into the centre of South Shore. Whilst there may have been some valid reasoning for tearing-up the Tracks into SB, I personally am firmly of the opinion that cutting-off SB from a Rapid Transit Suburban Railroad that went right into the centre of Chicago was a foolish and very short-sighted decision.

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Enjoyed watching!

Of these engines, I believe the Hudson at 1:26 is the only one still operating regularly.

at the beginning that's all Ford dealership now kinda sad really

The whole railroad there now is all overgrown with grass. You can’t even see it in Lawrence. All grass