11th Street (NICTD)

Infobox Station
name=11th Street
type=NICTD station


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image_caption=South Shore train approaching 11th Street station
address=114 East 11th Street
Michigan City, Indiana
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The 11th Street (NICTD) station is a street stop in the central city neighborhood of Michigan City, Indiana. It is located adjacent to the historic 11th Street Station of the former Chicago, South Shore and South Bend Railroad, which operated the station from 1927 until 1987.

History

The Chicago, South Shore and South Bend was one of the last interurban railroads to operate profitably in the United States. Aggressive management, led by financier Samuel Insull, reconceptualized the "South Shore" as the linchpin of a public transportation network operating throughout the industrialized Indiana Dunes region of Indiana. Insull interests built the 11th Street Station in central Michigan City in May 1927 as a pioneering piece of multimodal public transportation infrastructure. The "South Shore" had affiliated with several regional bus lines, and the 11th Street Station was conceived as a waiting area point where system users would transfer between a bus and an electric train.

After operating relatively successfully for some decades, the "South Shore" entered bankruptcy in the 1980s. Electric train service was reorganized under the umbrella of the publicly-funded South Shore Line, but affiliated bus service had long since ceased. The South Shore Line closed the 11th Street station in November 1987, but its NICTD successor-in-interest maintains train service to the street adjacent to the station. The station building itself is closed and out of service as of 2008.

External links

* [http://www.railfan.net/lists/rshsdepot-digest/200205/msg00093.html Jeff Tucker, "What's next for station?", May 15, 2002 news story cached by railfan.net ] .
* [http://www.nictd.com/service/stations.htm South Shore Line web page]