From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
      
   >The Amk station is located at 2702 West Washington Street.   
      
   >Would anyone know if this is the same building that once served the   
   >South Shore Line before that line was re-routed to the airport?  Tx.   
      
   The station was built in the early '70's by CSS&SB at the very east end   
   of its private right-of-way at Bendix, an industrial park to serve both   
   CSS&SB and passenger trains on the adjacent ex-New York Central. CSS&SB   
   had stopped running on streets into downtown South Bend in the early   
   '70's. Around the same time, Penn Central abandoned the 1928 New York   
   Central station in downtown South Bend, so you have the weird situation   
   that the owner railroad no longer uses it, but the foreign railroad   
   continues to use it. It's just concrete block but functional, with an   
   Amtrak ticket agency, heated and air conditioned and a lot nicer than   
   having no station at all.   
      
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