Welcome to the
SOUTH SHORE LINE
MUSEUM PROJECT
The South Shore Line Museum Project (SSLMP) is an Indiana nonprofit corporation, and exempt under federal Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3), engaged in a long-term collaborative effort to explore the many ways that the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad and its associated companies helped shape Northwest Indiana over the past 125 years. It brings together the work of many institutions, government entities, and individuals to create a lasting record.
Welcome to the
SOUTH SHORE LINE
MUSEUM PROJECT
The South Shore Line Museum Project (SSLMP) is a long-term collaborative effort to explore the many ways that the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad and its associated companies helped shape Northwest Indiana over the past 125 years. It brings together the work of many institutions, government entities, and individuals to create a lasting record.
Welcome to the
SOUTH SHORE LINE
MUSEUM PROJECT
The South Shore Line Museum Project (SSLMP) is a long-term collaborative effort to explore the many ways that the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad and its associated companies helped shape Northwest Indiana over the past 125 years. It brings together the work of many institutions, government entities, and individuals to create a lasting record.
Ride with us back to The Roaring ‘20s – that time of flapper girls, bathtub gin, and that technological marvel – fast electric interurban railways. Women could vote, men wore raccoon coats, and everyone who could, rode the electric interurbans to work, shopping, and recreation. But the Jazz Age had its dark side in America with the rise of the KKK and Northern Jim Crow segregation laws. All of these stories and more are found on this website and the future museum of the South Shore Line Museum Project.
The aim of the SSLMP is to gather in one place (and ultimately under one roof) the essential stories, histories, documents, media and actual railway equipment and cars that helped make the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad the greatest interurban of its time.
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