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CSS&SB Alco-GE 702
Title:  CSS&SB Alco-GE 702
Description:  CSS&SB Alco-GE 702 at Michigan City, Indiana on October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 702 was built in 1931 by Alco-GE for the NYC as C-C class R-2 314 (c/n's Alco 68242, GE 11165) for the West Side (NYC) freight electrification. When the NYC dieselized that line, the R-2's became surplus, and the South Shore purchased 10 of the units (at a cost of $9,000.00 each), overhauled and rewired eight of them (at a cost of $88,248.00 each). They were converted from NYC's 600 volt DC to the South Shore's 1500 volt DC system and became road #'s 700-707. This unit was put into service in 1955, weighed 140 tons, and developed 3000 horsepower. The pantographs, compressors, motor blowers, and series-parallel switches were from former Cleveland Union Terminal 700 class locomotives, also built by Alco-GE for the NYC. The South Shore's 700 series locomotives were all retired in 1975.
Photo Date:  10/23/1965  Upload Date: 10/13/2010 11:12:04 AM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 702(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  749   Comments: 1
CSS&SB Pullman 6
Title:  CSS&SB Pullman 6
Description:  CSS&SB Pullman built coach 6 at Michigan City, Indiana on an unknown day in April 1975, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 6 was built in 1926 by Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company as part of the first ten car order placed by the newly formed Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad, which took over control of the bankrupt Chicago Lake Shore & South Bend Railroad in 1926. Also seen (left to right) are trailer 204. 201, motor 6, and 704, the former NYC class R-2 343, rebuilt by the CSS&SB in 1956. The occasion was a Central Electric Railfans' Association sponsored fan trip.
Photo Date:  4/1/1975  Upload Date: 10/20/2010 1:42:32 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CSS 6(Interurban) CSS 704(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  1000   Comments: 1
CSS&SB R-2 704
Title:  CSS&SB R-2 704
Description:  CSS&SB R-2 704 at Michigan City Shops, April 1975, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Number 704 was built in June 1931 as NYC R-2 343 (Alco c/n 68271, GE c/n 11194), rebuilt at the Michigan City Shops in 1956, retired and scrapped in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/1/1975  Upload Date: 1/1/2011 2:03:40 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 704(R-2 Boxcab) CSS 601(SW1)
Views:  778   Comments: 0
CSS&SB 706
Title:  CSS&SB 706
Description:  CSS&SB 706 at Michigan City, Indiana on February 16, 1964, photograph by Chuck Zeiler>
Photo Date:  2/16/1964  Upload Date: 9/11/2018 8:34:38 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CSS 706(R-2 Boxcab)
Views:  212   Comments: 0


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