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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, prints the whole of its South Bend Branch, Niles to South Bend, in four stations: 0.0 Niles, Michigan; 4.8 Bertrand, Michigan, no agent, prepaid; 9.5 Notre Dame, Indiana, no agent, prepaid; 11.6 South Bend, Indiana. That is the entire branch — a steam railroad running through the township's Notre Dame and St. Mary's ground, with a station named for the university. There is no Roseland in it, and no other Indiana station: no steam station named Roseland ever existed. The interurban's 1933 timetable corroborates the branch's presence on this ground in its own operating language — between Leeper's Siding and St. Mary's Siding its trains crossed "1 crossing Michigan Central Switch Track. Controlled by gates," and all trains made a safety stop at St. Mary's Crossing. Two other Michigan Central names in the South Bend record are not this line and are not Clay Township lines: the St. Joseph Branch and the St. Joseph, South Bend & Southern connection were west-side South Bend lines, the "Pumpkin Vine." The branch through the township is the Niles line alone.
Sources: Michigan Central Railroad Co., List of Officers, Agents and Stations No. 110 (October 15, 1920), South Bend Branch table; Northern Indiana Railway Time Table No. 70 (1933), Special Instructions, South Bend–St. Joseph Division; MichiganRailroads.com, the Niles triple-decker crossing note (the interurban crossed above the Michigan Central branch and the Big Four below it, south of Niles).