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    Carroll Avenue Station

    Carroll Avenue Station

    3.5(4 reviews)
    33.8 mi

    There's no real station here, only a little shed you can get out of the rain in... and the vending…read moremachines for the tickets are clear across the parking lot. But the plus is that there is a TON of parking both at the "station" and across the street in the overflow parking lot. It also seems to be WAY safer than the other Michigan City station just down the road.

    The Carroll Avenue Station on the South Shore Line is the quintessential small-town train stop. I…read morewould call it a station, and it technically is, but you hardly realize it when you're here. Everything about the station makes you think it's 1936. There's the tiny building filled with uncomfortable chairs. There's the ticket agent who's neither friendly nor rude. There are the tearful reunions at the tracks. OK, I made that last one up, but tearful reunions in the muddy parking lot doesn't sound right. One time when I was visiting South Bend, the train schedule worked out (or didn't work out) so that I wouldn't be able to get all the way to South Bend in time to spend time with my dear friend Jen W. So she very generously offered to meet me in Michigan City. This was when Indiana still didn't have Daylight Saving Time (and it was confusing because the state has two time zones, and one of them does change), and because my friend lived in Granger, she got here an hour early. Our reunion was grand, and teary on her end. We were so engrossed in our conversation that we didn't realize she had made a wrong turn on the way back to South Bend. I really like this station, especially because it reminds me of Jen W. and our Michiana misadventures. OK, they weren't misadventures, but alliteration is fun when you're in the Midwest. Oh, and for you geography buffs, Michigan City, Indiana, is not in the region known as Michiana. How ridiculous is that? About as ridiculous as East Chicago being in Indiana, I would say.

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    South Shore Line

    2.4(20 reviews)
    39.7 mi

    I originally posted this review on June 5, 2008. Idiotically, Yelp moved it to a listing for Metra,…read morea completely different train system that shares some of the South Shore Line's tracks and stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One thing I loved about living in South Bend, Indiana, was being able to take the South Shore Line to Chicago. So it wasn't the fastest way to get there, and honestly, if I were going to be tooling around Chicago, I usually drove. But when I had a flight out of Midway and didn't feel like being gouged for leaving my car at long-term parking, I took the South Shore Line there. The first thing you'll notice about the South Shore Line is how old school it is. From the trains themselves--which look like they were reupholstered in the '60s--to the conductors' uniforms to the tickets, you know you're riding something that has changed very little since the 1930s or whenever it started. Although it takes a long time, it's still a cheap way to get to Chicago and many obscure points between South Bend and the Loop. I would gladly give the South Shore Line five stars except for a couple problems. First, it's very easy to be on the wrong car of the train and get left somewhere far from home. Make sure when you get on that you're sitting in the correct car, as on some runs only some of the cars make it all the way to South Bend. Second, and this isn't really the South Shore Line's fault but it does make riding a little weird, a lot of the Chicago stations are sketch fests. If you're going to Midway, just go all the way to the Loop and catch the orange line from there. I used to go to the Roosevelt station and walk the few blocks to the Orange Line. I saved a dollar or so, but the walk is really annoying. And some of the South Side stations are really really really scary. I'm talking desolate scary.

    I love taking the train into Chicago. Relaxing, easy to use and currently only $20 round trip…read more Can't beat it!

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