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Trains and Rail
Two Lines, One Name: the St. Joseph Line Is Not the Michigan City Line
1902–1930 — the disentangling this section stands on
Two different electric railways left South Bend northward and westward, and the record keeps them apart. The line that ran through Clay Township to St. Joseph, Michigan, was built by an originally independent company, the…
The St. Joseph Line Opens: 1903 to Niles, 1906 Through
1902–1906
The railroad that crossed Roseland's ground began as the South Bend and Southern Michigan Railway. The company was consolidated on 15 September 1902, successor through consolidation to a Michigan company of the same name and to…
One Company at Last, Receivership, and the End in 1934
1930–1940
The two South Bend interurban families became one corporation on 8 February 1930 — and the combined property was in receivership again within two years. Northern Indiana Railway, Inc. was incorporated on 8 February 1930 and in…
Roseland Siding: the Town's One Railroad Place
in service by May 1936 — the settlement of gap G-LD-6
Roseland has a railroad place in the record, and it is a siding. The Central Electric Railfans' Association's 1960 bulletin illustrates the Northern Indiana's final series of city cars — the 810-series, built by Cincinnati in…
The Steam Road Howard Named: the Michigan Central's South Bend Branch
the branch's station list, 1920
Howard's 1907 history names the Michigan Central for Clay Township, and the railroad's own station list proves him right in substance. The Michigan Central's List of Officers, Agents and Stations No. 110, issued 15 October 1920…
The Notre Dame & Western: a College Coal Spur That Crossed the Highway
1902–2012
The township's other steam track was a university plant railroad. The Notre Dame & Western ran from 1902 into the 1990s: a spur off the New York Central's Niles Branch — the Michigan Central line of the article above in its later…
The Other Steam Roads, Tested
this section's negative roll
Exactly one steam railroad ever entered Clay Township — the Michigan Central. The New York Central proper was in the township only through that subsidiary: its own Lake Shore & Michigan Southern main line runs through South Bend…
Wrecks, Tested: None on This Ground
the searched-negative, with its span
No wreck at Roseland or in Clay Township was found, and the famous wrecks near this ground are all somewhere else. The spans searched were the ICC's Investigations of Railroad Accidents 1911–1993 index, the full text of CERA…
Proposals That Never Reached This Ground
the unbuilt roll
Two boom-era proposals belong to the county's story; neither laid track through Roseland. The Niles & Buchanan Railway is the nearer miss: the corporation existed — CERA lists a Niles & Buchanan Railway Company among the 1906…
Today: No Rails, and the Bus That Inherited the Corridor
the loss ledger, closed
Roseland's rail account closes line by line. Through interurban passenger service on the St. Joseph line ended 1 June 1934. The retained St. Mary's local, turning at Roseland siding, ended by June 1940 with the last South Bend…