A little bit of my own history with the South Shore:

But, I'm getting a little ahead of myself... At the time we had gotten our original 2004, we had NO idea what the South Shore even was! In fact... In a rather regrettable move, we even had the shell swapped with a BNSF shell at some point. Obviously though, this was fixed since then!

Our next encounter with the South Shore (and the first time we had actually begun to recognize what the South Shore was) was one time while our mom was getting something from somewhere along Bendix (we don't remember the full story), and while we were waiting in the car, a 6-ish car train passed by us. I think this was in... probably around 2008 or 09? We honestly don't really remember what year it was, but we DO remember that there was a trailer car on the consist, and it was in the 80s livery still.
But, point is! That sighting actually lead us into the huge rabbit hole that is the South Shore Line. Ever since then, it's essentially become the backbone of our personalities... if that makes any sense.
It's even gotten to the point that our bedroom is painted like the South Shore!

(...ignore the clothes and south shore logo on my keyboard, we haven't quite gotten around to cleaning up our room)

Nowdays, we get to see the South Shore every other Wednesday (or... to be more specific, whenever we go to therapy), and every time we go through Michigan City I get photos of just about everything I can. Some of those photos can be found on our Flicker! The ones that aren't there are either because I simply didn't think they were good enough to post, or were before the "cutoff" point.

If we could, we'd love to be able to design a better West Lake Corridor livery for NICTD, as their current one is kinda... empty. But, we doubt we'd ever get to be able to do that.

Some noteworthy South Shore things we've seen are as follows (in no particular order):
- Street Running in regular use, and the End of Street Running.
- The 80s Nippon Sharyo Single-Level livery on one of the trailer cars back in '08 or '09.
- CSS 2010 while it was still LIRC 2005. Unfortunately, I didn't get a photo of it since my phone was dead.
- The AAPRCO Special being lead by 2009 and 2007!
- NICTD sending Highliners to South Bend BEFORE construction
- ex-METX Highliners BEFORE being repainted
- NICTD sending Highliners to South Bend DURING construction
- NICTD sending single levels to South Bend during construction
- NICTD 1000 prior to its repaint (also yes, this IS my photo, but the account i originally posted it under was deleted.)
- We don't have any photos of it, but we've ridden on an extra train that operated to South Bend from Van Buren St. (might've also stopped in millenium, not sure) that was sent out SPECIFICALLY for people returning home from UNDERTALE LIVE. This also happened pre-street running death, so we can officially say "We've been on a train operating specifically because of UNDERTALE, and said train WENT DOWN TWO DIFFERENT ROADS". This might genuinely be the craziest railroady thing we've ever personally seen, in all honesty
- CSS 41 before it was fully scrapped
- Probably a lot more that we just can't remember at the moment.

But uh, personal stuff aside, here's the South Shore written up as if it were a part of the traindex/railroadex, because we thought it'd be neat to try!

Facts we find particularly interesting:

one of the first two geeps to be repainted into CSS livery
veterans sticker unit

one of the first two geeps to be repainted into CSS livery

used to be equipped with a K5LA, sometime between 2020 and 2022 it was replaced with an RS3L, visible in this photo.

also visible in the above link, is the fact that 2001 is still not equipped with PTC, and is thus a yard goat/booster unit

temporarily equipped with a nose headlight and numberboard gyralight, added at some point between 1984 and 1986, removed between 1992 and 1993.

veterans sticker unit

temporarily equipped with a nose headlight and numberboard single lense gyralight, added at some point between 1984 and 1986, removed between 1991 and 1993.

unusually tall nose logo

still has original battery box numbers

as of sometime in 2023, 2004 has been fitted with an antenna of some sorts on the numberboards. RC control, maybe?

veterans sticker unit

indiana bicentennial sticker unit

in the past, this unit had a maroon strip which was used to determine what shade of maroon CSS's livery should use

indiana bicentennial sticker unit

veterans sticker unit

went to GATX during/before 1988

then went to LLPX at some point during/before 2005

then became IAIS 154 in/before 2005

was repainted into Iowa Interstate livery between 2008 and 2009

went to LIRC in/before 2015

during 2015, went to CSS and became CSS 154

and FINALLY, in 2016, was patched into CSS 804.

went to GATX during/before 1989

then went to LLPX at some point during/before 1997

then became IAIS 154 in/before 2005

was repainted into Iowa Interstate livery in 2008

went to LIRC at some point, probably the same time as 154. Went to CSS whilst still patched as LIRC in/before 2015

during 2015, got patched into CSS 155

and FINALLY, in 2016, was patched into CSS 805.

went to LIRC sometime either during or before 2000, and leased to CSS in 2019

temporarily patched into CSS 2010 to avoid overlap with CSS 2005 in 2020

went to GTW in 1984-ish, renumbered 6405

gong bell removed :( and repainted into GTW livery between 1985 and 1987

went to NICTD sometime during/before 2001, rebuilt into GP38-2 spec, regeared for high speed despite the fact that the highest speed limit NICTD runs through is 79 mph, renumbered 1000, presumably to complement 1100.

recieved a pantograph in 2019 for ice breaking purposes

repainted into NICTD's new diesel livery in 2020, and regeared back to normal

in 1975, was repainted and renumbered 1775 to be a replacement bicentennial unit after the first one got damaged in a collision.

at some point, was repainted back into its original livery and numbering.

in 1985, went to MKT and renumbered 328

pretty quickly after though, MKT 328 became UP 1985

even quicker, became a parts unit for NREX around 2005-ish or sooner.

then aroud 2015 or 16, was rebuilt to an actual NREX unit, new designation of GP38-3

and then in 2019, became NICTD 1001, sporting a test livery for NICTD's geeps

and finally, in 2020, was repainted into the finalized NICTD diesel livery