At Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad, we’ve spoiled our customers – and that’s a good thing! South Shore customers have learned that when they are in need, we’ll be there. Whether it’s an extra switch, a hot car or a special move, we’ll do what is necessary. With approximately 60,000 annual carloads, no business is too big or too small for the South Shore. We have customers for whom we handle tens of thousands of cars each year and other customers who ship only a few dozen cars each year. Big or small, we take ‘em all.
Northern Indiana Public Service Co. (NIPSCo)
http://www.nipsco.nisource.com/
We are fortunate to serve two of NIPSCo’s three generating stations in northwest Indiana- Michigan City Generating Station at Michigan City and Bailly Generating station at Burns Harbor. We handle 115-car unit trains of coal to Bailly from Illinois Basin mines and eastern mines. Michigan City receives trains from the Powder River Basin mines in Wyoming. NIPSCo accounts for about 40% of our carloads.
ArcelorMittal Steel, Burns Harbor
http://www.arcelormittal.com/
Known until recently as Bethlehem Steel, Chicago South Shore handles unit-trains of metallurgical coal for Mittal. Built in the mid 1960’s, this is the most modern integrated steel mill in the U.S., a model of productivity and efficiency. We handle thousands of carloads annually of coiled sheet steel, most for the automotive industry, and iron/steel plate, to destinations across the U.S. Mittal Steel accounts for about 25% of our carloads.
GAF-Michigan City
www.gaf.com
GAF Materials sited their new roofing shingle plant on the South Shore in 2000. Seven days a week we provide carloads of roofing granules and asphalt for the most productive shingle line in the U.S. We handle outbound boxcars of shingles that are loaded from a large loading dock that South Shore constructed adjacent to GAF’s plant.
Reserve Marine/Transfer Logistics
http://www.reserve-group.com/services/logistics/logistics-warehousing-stevedoring.asp
Located at the Port of Chicago, Reserve Marine provides stevedoring services at Lake Calumet. In addition, subsidiary Transfer Logistics handles several thousand boxcars each year containing various grain products that are transferred to steamship containers for shipment, under the United States world food aid programs. The Chicago South Shore is proud to play such an im portant role in this vital international program.
Namasco/Primary Steel – Chicago
http://www.namasco.com/
Known until this year as Metron Steel, this customer is a steel processor, providing slitting, cut-to-length, and other services to their customers nationwide. Located at the Port of Chicago, Primary Steel enjoys 5- or 6-day/week service, receiving coiled sheet steel and iron/steel plate from various national and international mills, then shipping to their customers by rail and truck. Since South Shore began serving Primary Steel in 1995, their rail volumes have increased approximately 700%-800%.
U.S. Steel-Midwest Plant, Portage, IN
http://www.ussteel.com
Formerly National Steel’s Midwest Division, U.S. Steel-Midwest is a cold-rolling mill, providing steel finishing services for coils produced at other U.S. Steel facilities. South Shore gained access to this customer in 1989, previously served by only one railroad. Over the next ten years, our access and the competition it brought saved our customer more than $100 million in freight charges!
Five-Star Sheets, New Carlisle, In
http://www.fivestarsheets.com/
Five-Star Sheets (originally known as MidCorr) purchased a greenfield site from South Shore RR and opened this corrugated box plant in 1996. Their experience has been so positive that this year they doubled the size of their facility and their production. We provide delivery of boxcars containing linerboard for their production line. As inbound cars increase, so too does our frequency of service.
Maryland Pig Services L.P. - Chicago
http://www.nmlp.com
Located adjacent to the Port of Chicago on the Calumet River, Maryland Pig receives pig iron by barge then re-ships several thousand carloads/year by gondola to their customers in the foundry industry. Carload growth has been tremendous since locating on the South Shore in the late 90’s.
Roll Coater, Kingsbury, In
http://rollcoater.com/kingsbury.asp
Roll Coater is located on our Kingsbury branch, which we bought from Norfolk Southern in 2000. This line runs from Michigan City to Kingsbury Industrial Park, where Roll Coater is located. They coat/paint coiled steel sheet for automotive, storm/garage door and appliance markets, among others.
Arro Packaging
http://www.arro.com/
Located in Chicago, Arro packages various bulk commodities, including food-grade products. Plastics are also stored and transloaded to truck at Arro’s facility. Other Arro facilities in Chicago not served by South Shore include a plastic packaging operation, a ‘small package’ operation and a liquid packaging facility.
Criterion Catalysts & Technologies, L.P., Michigan City, In
http://www.criterioncatalysts.com/
A division of Shell Oil, South Shore RR gained access in late 2004 by reaching agreement with AMTRAK to serve Criterion. AMTRAK owns the railroad track that provides access to Criterion. Unhappy with the indifferent and infrequent service by a Class I railroad, Criterion has been very pleased with the level of service provided by the South Shore. They provide alumina for two sister plants in California.
Other Valued Chicago South Shore Railroad Customers:
- Sweets Mix Co.-Div. of Tootsie Roll Industries, Port of Chicago, IL
- Windy City Warehouse, Port of Chicago, IL
- S.H. Bell Co., Port of Chicago, IL
- PSC Metals, Burns Harbor, IN
- On-Line Packaging, Michigan City, IN
- U.S. Aluminate, Michigan City, IN
- Perschke Feeds, LaPorte, IN
- Unifrax Corp., New Carlisle, IN
- Lake ’s Farm Service, New Carlisle, IN
- Alexander Chemical, Kingsbury, IN
- Weiss Prestaining, Inc., Stillwell, IN (Kingsbury Branch)
- FAS-PAK, Inc., Michigan City, IN
- Aggregates America, Via Gary, IN
- Maloney Lumber, Port of Chicago, IL
- Industrial Lumber Products, Inc., LaPorte, IN
- Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Burns Harbor, IN
- E & L Paving & Construction, Inc., LaPorte, IN
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