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

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

There are some tree obscured photos of the roundhouse in ChicagoSwitching.

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]

Freight House

Michiana Railroading posted
The freight house for the New Jersey, Indiana, & Illinois Railroad in South Bend. 1920

Steve Newland: This is on Division Street, which is now called Western Avenue. The building is still there. It's now or was a daycare.

Andy Laurent: Steve the depot is still there at the sidewalk. It's at the far left edge of the photo. The freight house is gone...

James K. Evans: It wasn’t far from the NYC Oliver yard. I was a NYC engineer, would get called to work the South Bend yard job off the extra board in Chicago. we covered Chicago yard jobs, Burns harbor, LaPorte and South Bend vacancies.

All

The roundhouse was by Olive Street near the right side of this excerpt.

1958/59 South Bend West Quad @ 24,000

And this is how the NJI&I got on up to its depot and freight house 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

The roundhouse is at the bottom of this photo just west of Olive Street.

Dec 1, 1951 @ 28,400; AR1PK0000040037 via Dennis DeBruler

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