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A few blocks south of Randolph Street, the Illinois Central suburban stop at Roosevelt Road served IC's Central Station, affording passengers of the Panama Limited, City of New Orleans, and other IC fleet leaders through the years- along with trains of New York Central and other roads using Central Station- a handy connection to the electric lines. South Shore trains also called at the IC suburban-line station. Patriotically painted combine No. 100 did its part for the war effort on March 27, 1945. The first combine to go through the South Shore's car-lengthening program, No. 100 wore this scheme when it rolled out of the road's Michigan City, Indiana, shops in 1943. (Dr. Howard Blackburn; Morning Sun Books Collection)

Photograph from Chicago, South Bend & South Shore In Color, Volume 1: Sixty Years of the South Shore.

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