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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 streetcars. Steam passenger service at Notre Dame station ended with the Michigan Central branch's decline, and the branch's last remnant — the Notre Dame coal spur — ran its last train in 1995, was abandoned with federal approval in April 2012, and was taken up that year. No freight or passenger railroad operates in the town today, and no active rail line stands on the highway corridor through it. What serves the town instead is the interurban's own corporate descendant: the railway replaced its trains with buses in 1934, the bus company became Northern Indiana Transit in 1940 and Transpo in 1968, and Transpo's Route 5 now runs the same corridor on the highway the rails paralleled — the transit article carries that record. Amtrak is a pointer only: South Bend's station on West Washington Avenue and Niles, Michigan's on Dey Street are other towns' files, and no Amtrak service touches this ground.
Sources: CERA Bulletin 104 and Marlette (the 1934 and 1940 dates); Trains news wire (1995 and 2012); ChicagoRailFan, Northern Indiana Transit history (the bus succession); Transpo's current route record (the transit fragment).