South Bend Fire Department Highliner

Which Highliner Car did South Bend FD get?

https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Delay ... 13671.html

The car number is only partly visible in the poor resolution video, might be 1520 or 1620??

Martin Baumann

I have a picture of it when it was in Michigan City the year before the move. I did not get the number plate.

METX 1651 ? (before the maroon stripe ...)
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4554022
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4554021
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=4541022

I noticed that the Highliner being donated is in a maroon South Shore Line livery. How many Highliners were in this livery and when were they in service? I can't seem to find any images of these Highliners in service with this livery.

None. The cars had standard Metra livery on retirement. Painting over the markings may have been part of the requirement for donation. If someone takes photos of the training, Metra wouldn't want any possible confusion with their brand. Perhaps the maroon has significance beyond the CSSSB?

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The single level NICTD cars feature a maroon stripe (a nod to their "South Shore" heritage). The NICTD bi-levels do not have a side stripe but do have maroon letters and accents.

NICTD did a nice job on the design of their two diesel engines, 1000 and 1001. 1000 was the grey ghost for many years ... now both engines are decked out in a mostly maroon color scheme.

Thanks, from the photo I am almost certain it is 1551 which was originally reported as one of 6 going to the Boone and Scenic Valley. It looks as if they got 1557 instead

https://chitransit.org/topic/3178-metra ... ment=91301

The side view photo on that site is high enough resolution to read 1651.