{"product_id":"chicago-south-shore-south-bend-railroad-how-the-medal-was-won-cera-bulletin","title":"Chicago South Shore \u0026 South Bend Railroad How the Medal was Won CERA Bulletin","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:148802 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRailroadTreasures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eoffers the following item:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\";padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eChicago South Shore \u0026amp; South Bend Railroad How the Medal was Won CERA Bulletin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eChicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad How the Medal was Won \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHard Cover  CERA Bulletin #124 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCopyright 1985  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e160 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eLAKE SHORE DAYS   8Frontispiece: Car 11 operating as train number 19, a Gary local, on Chicago Avenue, East Chicago, with a streetcar bound for Indiana Harbor close behind. C. Edward Hedstrom Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCOST OF REPRODUCTION OF THE CHICAGO, LAKE SHORE AND SOUTH BEND RAILWAY COMPANY IN INDIANA           16 Frontispiece: Map of The Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend Railway and the immediate territory it serves (1925)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTHE SOUTH SHORE IS BORN          62 Frontispiece: Car 1 leads a four car westbound train through the \"Ideal Section\" at Wilson Siding just east of Miller, Indiana in July 1926. Calvert's Studio, Michigan City photo from George Krambles Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eBRIEF SUBMITTED IN COMPETITION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL AWARD OF THE CHARLES A. COFFIN FOUNDATION             74Frontispiece: Car 100 is at Shops in June 1926, prior to entering regular service. Calvert's Studio, Michigan City photo from William J. Clouser Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTHE REHABILITATION CONTINUES           146Frontispiece: Car 27 just before leaving the carbuilders plant in 1929. Standard Car Company photo from George Krambles Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe idea for this book occurred on January 18, 1985. On that date George Krambles and your editor were visiting the South Shore's offiees in Michigan City. Near the close of our meeting we were introduced to Henry J. Konda. Henry, a long time employee and officer of the company, had two treasures in his possession; the Cost of Reproduction of the Lake Shore and the 1927 Coffin Award Submittal. During the period of ownership of the South Shore by the Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio, Henry saw fit to keep these two books in a very safe place, unknown to others. As a result they survived the records destruction program.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eFrom the very beginning of this project CERA had the total cooperation of John Darling, Chairman \u0026amp; Chief Executive officer; Barry Prince, then the President; Tim Jorgenson, Executive Vice President; Jack Alexander, Vice President Marketing; and Clyde Forbes, Vice President Operations and General Manager. Together these five gentlemen formed the Venango River Corporation to acquire the South Shore Line on September 28, 1984. Jim Powell, Passenger Traffic Manager, was responsible for obtaining the Coffin Medal photograph and handling the details that arose in coordinating this project.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe South Shore Line's purpose in making this material available stems from the new owners' belief that an excellent company is one that respects its heritage and its people. Thus, they want to make these documents available in a convenient manner to interested parties. CERA's interest is to make significant documents of electric railway history available in their original form. Thus readers of today and tomorrow can capture the spirit of the times as it existed many years ago and approach being able to do original research at their convenience. The concept of this book is new both to the South Shore and to CERA. We jointly feel that this is a significant step in preserving the heritage of the South Shore Line and its people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCERA has added seventy photographs of the period to this book. George Krambles, as he has graciously done for years, made his collection available. Included in George's photographs were original prints made in the 1930s which he has carefully preserved. Ed Hedstrom, a career South Shore employee, played a vital role in this project. Not only did Ed loan us photographs to copy but he shared recollections which are incorporated in the text and captions. Malcolm D. McCarter responded rapidly to requests for prints from his collection and willingly gave CERA permission to use them. Thanks is also due to Ed Frank, Bill Janssen and Bob Mehlenbeck. These three gentleman have supported CERA from its inception. They entrusted their original negatives to the editor for use in this book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eWe would be remiss if we did not recognize Wally Maier, Ann O'Brien and all the people at Sorg Printing Company of Illinois. These people exhibited great care in the handling of these rare books to eopy them for publication. The camera work is outstanding. This book is the first time that CERA utilized word processing interfaced with computer typesetting. There are 51,000 characters in the text. Working from a supplied disk, the entire typesetting was done by Sorg in less than one hour. This combination of new technology and historic documents has resulted in a project which CERA believes further advances the state-of-the-art of electric railway history publishing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCERA believes that this is a significant project. We want to give special thanks to John Darling who spearheaded the project, Barry Prince who assisted in developing the concept and George Krambles for all of his continued help. Finally we must clearly recognize that without Henry Konda this would never have happened. Thank you Henry. Thank you very much.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\"In June, 1925, at age 25, I, as vice president of Midland Utilities (an Insull holding company) purchased from Cleveland Trust Company all securities of the Chicago Lake Shore \u0026amp; South Bend Railway under a plan devised by Britton I. Budd. I became the executive vice president of the reorganized Chicago South Shore \u0026amp; South Bend Railroad.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eSamuel Insull, Jr. addressed the 40th Anniversary banquet of Central Electric Railfans' Association in May, 1978. This was his last known public appearance. In meetings leading up to this appearance, Sam was quite proud of his work on the South Shore. His \"corporate biography\" cited the above paragraph as his first \"event.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eSam described his initial work on the South Shore as carrying \"Budd's briefcase on the original survey.\" The survey included the Chicago Lake Shore \u0026amp; South Bend and the Chicago South Bend \u0026amp; Northern Indiana which operated out of South Bend to Goshen via Elkhart; Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan via Niles and Berrien Springs; and to Michigan City via New Carlisle and La Porte. Between South Bend and New Carlisle the Lake Shore and Northern Indiana rights-of-way were adjacent. Budd described the Northern Indiana as \"hopeless\" but saw potential in the Lake Shore.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe purchase of the Lake Shore was \"strictly for passenger service\" although Sam acknowledged the potential for integration of power and gas facilities that are now part of Northern Indiana Public Service Company. However, the \"clincher in the South Shore deal was the ability to operate over the Illinois Central.\" The passenger surveys predicted there would be significant increases in riders by bringing the passengers straight into downtown Chicago. Charles Thompson and Bernard Fallon, officers of the Chicago Rapid Transit and the North Shore Line, were assigned to negotiate with the Illinois Central.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe acquisition of the South Shore was accomplished by purchasing the construction loans. The Lake Shore had not paid the construction loans and, therefore, Midland United approached the Cleveland Trust Co. offering them 6% noncumulative debentures with interest payable, if earned, in exchange for the construction loans. It is interesting to note that Cleveland Trust received debentures equal in face value to the amount of the loans. In addition, Midland United agreed to invest $2.5 million for the rehabilitation of the property with the understanding that Midland United would own 60% of the common stock of the new railroad company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eSam remembers the day he \"boarded a train for Gary and purchased the railroad on which I rode.\" Why did Sam remember this so well? Perhaps insight is found in a 1931 article in Fortune Magazine. Sam \"observed the departure of an interurban electric train with the phrase: 'God! That gives me a thrill!'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eSamuel Insull, Sr., wanting to be sure that his son was properly trained to succeed him, would assign \"homework\" to Sam and a tutor. His first tutor was his uncle, Martin Insull, whom Sam remembered with considerable fondness. Though Martin typically was involved in utility projects, it was in the management of electric railways that Sam's work was most visible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eIn the case of the South Shore, the tutor was Britton I. Budd. Budd had begun his career in transit in May, 1895, as an assistant storekeeper on the Metropolitan Elevated Railway Company of Chicago, the builder of the original Douglas, Garfield Park (now Congress) and Logan Square (now O'Hare) lines of Chicago's rapid transit system. He rose to the presidency of the Metropolitan in 1910. According to Sam Jr., when his father consolidated the rapid transit companies in Chicago in 1914, Senior lined up all of his trusted lieutenants and picked Budd as he looked \"the most likely\" candidate to be the new president\". The Chicago Rapid Transit Company soon became the source of talent for the \"Big 3\" interurbans of Chicago; the Chicago North Shore \u0026amp; Milwaukee, the Chicago Aurora \u0026amp; Elgin and the South Shore. Budd became the president of the North Shore, of which Insull acquired control in 1916, and he was also designated as president of the South Shore when Insull acquired it in 1925.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe Chicago Lake Shore \u0026amp; South Bend had its start as a streetcar line between East Chicago and Indiana Harbor, Indiana. On December 2, 1901, the Chicago \u0026amp; Indiana Air Line Railway was incorporated by a group headed by James B. Hanna, a Cleveland promoter and financier. In those days, the term \"airline\" described a railroad built to high construction standards so that trains could operate at relatively high speeds over relatively straight track with gentle grades and preferably separated from cross traffic. What resulted in this case though was hardly an airline. Rather, it was a 3.4 mile streetcar service which carried workers from their homes in East Chicago to the steel mills and other industries in Indiana Harbor. Construction entailed a bitter franchise dispute with the older Hammond Whiting \u0026amp; East Chicago Railway over rights to operate in Chicago Avenue, East Chicago. The battle ended in a draw, with both companies building tracks on Chicago Avenue and competing for traffic that was very small except at shift changes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eDuring the last decade of the 19th Century and the first two decades of the 20th Century, the southern shore around the bottom of Lake Michigan became the \"Workshop of America.\" Beginning at 79th Street in Chicago and continuing to Gary were steel mills owned by virtually every major steel company in the United States. (In 1985, this area continues as a major steel producer with Inland Steel in Indiana Harbor, U. S. Steel in Gary and new mills built in the 1960s by Midwest Steel and Bethlehem Steel at Burns Harbor.) To serve these mills, a myriad of service industries and public utilities developed. All the railroads from the east crossed this region of Northwest Indiana and provided local passenger service. Yet, the Hanna group saw an opportunity for an interurban railway.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eBeginning in 1903, the promoters acquired franchises to operate in South Bend, New Carlisle and Michigan City. In 1904, the airline company was renamed the Chicago Lake Shore \u0026amp; South Bend Railway. The plan began to emerge. By September, 1906, the company's capitalization had been increased to $6 million and construction financing had been secured from a syndicate headed by the Cleveland Trust Company.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eConstruction began immediately in the fall of 1906 by a newly formed company, the South Bend Construction Company. The first construction work began outside East Chicago. Steam road construction standards were employed as maximum speeds in excess of 70 mph were contemplated. Construction was not easy. Between Gary and Michigan City the railway was built through the sand dunes that shifted from time to time. East of Michigan City the route was carved from the raw hills, with few and gentle curves. The builders encountered a number of serious sink-holes at the Pere Marquette (now Chesapeake \u0026amp; Ohio) overpass just east of the Michigan City Shops, and also at Tee Lake and Hudson Lake. The result was excessive construction costs. That was the first of the Lake Shore's serious problems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe second serious problem was the selection of 6,600 volts alternating current as the power to run the trains. The AC system was selected because it was alleged to reduce construction costs though its applications at the time were few and not fully proven. Thus, the Lake Shore had the failures and expense of a relatively untried technology that was not commonly adopted. Regular service between South Bend and Michigan City began on July 1, 1908, while on September 6, regular service was extended to Hammond. However, Chicago bound passengers had to transfer to steam trains at Calumet, approximately one mile east of the East Chicago station.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:0.82em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eHow these passengers got to Chicago is an interesting question. Some trade journal of the time reported that passengers transferred to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. This does not seem correct because of the competitive positions of the two companies and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern did not serve Calumet on the South Shore Line. Some conversations with old-time South Shore employees and a little research in what corporate files that remain yielded a very interesting answer. The primary connection was to commuter trains operated by a component of the Pennsylvania System between Chicago and Clarke Junction (northwest of Gary) via Hegewisch, Hammond and East Chicago. Passenger service on this line was still operating in 1916. A remnant of this line was the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing on the South Shore Line just west of Calumet Avenue Hammond that was removed in the 1960's. This line was built as the State Line and Indiana City. In 1901 it became the South Chicago \u0026amp; Southern Railroad and in 1954 it was transferred into Pennal Co. (Pennsylvania Railroad). Lake Shore passengers also had the option of riding trains of the Wabash Railway Co. operating between Chicago and Detroit via Westville, Indiana and Montpelier, Ohio. At Calumet, Wabash trains of that time and Norfolk Southern (N\u0026amp;W) trains of today have trackage rights over the Chessie System (B\u0026amp;OCT trackage between Riverdale and Pine Junction which is the same place as Clarke Junction on the former Pennsylvania System now Conrail).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eAll pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. 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