Sunday, January 7, 2018

South Bend, IN: Aban/NS/Wabash/NJI&I Depot & Administrative Offices and Roundhouse

Depot: (Satellite)
Roundhouse: (Satellite)

One of the red signs has fallen off since ChicagoSwitching (source) took some pictures. The NJI&I is the New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois.
Street View

Roundhouse


Roberta Crawford posted
Time lapse of the NJI&I Railroad roundhouse on Olive Street in South Bend. Photos are, top to bottom,1948, 2001, 2017 successively.The NJI&I was the personal railroad for the Singer sewing machine plants on Western Avenue and junctioned with the Wabash RR east of North Liberty.
Richard Fiedler shared
Daniel C Carroll Jr. shared
Guerney Josh: I tried to save it but NS had other plans for it. Built by the Singer sewing machine company.
Richard Fiedler shared
Tim Shanahan shared
Mike Snow: I was able to tour this before it was tore down, all the records was still there, the NJ&I had many customers and moved many cars in its heyday!

Guerney Josh commented on Daniel's share

Guerney Josh commented on Daniel's share

Keith Wilson commented on Roberta's post
You can still see where it was.
[Satellite]

1958/59 South Bend West Quad @ 24,000

And this is how the NJI&I got on up to its depot by Western Avenue. The corridor of railroads crossing Olive Street, from north to south, were NJI&I, GTW and NYC.
1958/59 South Bend West Quad @ 24,000

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