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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
Inertia, and the street running in Michigan City. For now, it's easier to maintain what Insull built than to order special locomotives or swap equipment partway out the line. When the overhead needs to be rebuilt--and that's coming soon--they'll have to decide whether to get a big federal pork-barrel grant, order new hybrid locomotives (like the New Haven used to have) that can run under wire north of Kensington, swap locomotives in Kensington or Michigan City, or put in exhaust fans under Millennium Park so they can use diesel locomotives all the way into Randolph Street.
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NICTD advertised for bids on new rolling stock, and that new rolling stock is going to be bi-level EMUs similar to the new Highliners ordered by Metra Electric. That's a pretty solid commitment towards keeping the South Shore Line as an all-electric operation for at least a few decades to come.