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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 1930 — with a photograph captioned, verbatim: "Top: #815 at Roseland siding of former interurban route to St. Joseph, Michigan, retained for local service to St. Marys. Photo, May, 1936." The caption proves three things at once: the interurban physically ran through the town's ground; the name Roseland was a railroad place-name on that line by 1936; and after the through interurbans were abandoned in June 1934, a stub of the St. Joseph line was kept and worked as a local streetcar service to St. Mary's, turning at Roseland siding — a service that necessarily ended with South Bend's last streetcars in June 1940. What the siding was not is a timetable station. The company's public timetable of 1 July 1907 prints the division's stations south to north as South Bend, St. Mary's, Bertrand, Brandywine, Niles, and on through Berrien Springs to St. Joseph — no Roseland, which is chronological before it is anything else, the town not being incorporated until 1916. The employee timetable of 9 July 1933, the line's last full year, lists the division's stations and sidings in order: South Bend, Leeper's Siding, St. Mary's Siding at 3.0 miles, State Line Siding, Brandywine Siding, Wolf Siding, Niles, and north. No Roseland appears there either. The siding therefore enters the record between July 1933 and May 1936, consistent with a siding laid or renamed for the St. Mary's local stub. The operating geography fixes its ground: between St. Mary's Siding at mile 3.0 and the state line — the interval the present town occupies on the highway corridor. The line ran through the town on private right-of-way in the Dixie Way corridor, not down a town street: every named point on this division is a siding, the signature of private-right-of-way operation, and no Roseland street-running is printed anywhere reached. The crossroad names were tested and returned nothing — no stop or siding named Pendle, Cleveland or Darden occurs in the 1907 timetable, the 1933 timetable, or the standard station lists. Which side of the roadway the track lay on through the town's ground is not proven in sources reached online; the residue of the old gap is narrowed to that question, with its settlers named in the pass note.
Sources: CERA Bulletin 104, photo caption p. II-21, verified verbatim in the Archive.org full text's coordinator; the 1907 public timetable and fare table and Time Table No. 70 (July 9, 1933) as reproduced in the same bulletin; Jim Fergusson's Indiana Interurban Railways station list SL 288, searched whole (the St. Joseph line is absent from the Indiana volume, being filed under Michigan).