Timetable: MCRR - South Bend Branch - Benton Harbor to South Bend (via Niles)

This single track branch line was built by the Big Four and later changed to an MC operation. Siding capacity in 44' cars in 1897.

Key: BB=Bascule Bridge | C=Coal | CS=Car Shop | D=Open > Day | DN=Open Day and night | DS=Dispatcher | DT=Double Main Track | EH=Engine house | F=Diesel Fuel | HI=Half Interlocked Crossing | I=Interlocked Crossing | J=Junction | LB=Lift bridge | N=Open at night | P=Passing Track w/40' car capacity | Q=Quarry | RH=Roundhouse # stalls | RT=Railroad Resort | S=Scales | SB=Swing bridge | T=Turntable | TC=Telegraph call | W=Water | X=Crossing | Y=Wye | Yard=Yard

Notes

Time Line

1872. August. As the MC train was approaching South Bend on Sunday morning, a lady and gentleman were coming up the hill with horses and carriage. The horses became frightened and, whirling suddenly around, turned the carriage over, down the bank, with the occupants underneath, placing them in a position which might have proved fatal, had not Conductor Hoyt, with his usual promptness, leaped from the train while still in motion, ran across the field and caught the team before any injury was done, except slight damage to the carriage. The lady was taken, on board the train, back to South Bend, while the gentleman was left to take care of the team and pick up the pieces, his pleasure ride apparently indefinitely postponed. [NDEM-1872-0810]

1875. We are to have a telegraph line between Niles and South Bend, via Notre Dame. It will be built by the Michigan Central railroad. [NDEM-1875-0605]

1881. February. The survey for building a railroad from South Bend division of the MC to the dam in Niles has been made, and a promise given that the road will be built there. [DFP-1881-0226]

1932. Michigan railroads since 1932 have quit using the following tracks. Some continue to exist but are not in use: Northern Indiana railroad from Elkhart IN to St. Joseph, MI. [DFP-1949-1009]