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A departed institution leaves a building, and the building becomes the address at which its fame is forwarded. Granger's institution was the railroad junction itself, and its building was the union depot: a single station shared by the Grand Trunk Western and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis — the Big Four — photographed in service, date unknown, in the photograph preserved by the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum at North Judson. A union depot is a fame building by construction: two companies' passengers, mail, and freight under one roof, the one roof under which this crossroads was a place on two systems' timetables at once. The building is gone. What stands at its forwarding address today is memory in commercial form — the train mural inside the Martin's supermarket on State Road 23, where the build's spine and transportation records found it — and a crossing that still stops traffic on the same ground (row 11). The depot is therefore treated here as a location in its own right: site fixed by the timetable and the crossing, institution departed, building demolished, fame forwarded to a mural and to a museum's photograph caption in another county. What open sources do not state is the building's end — no demolition date, no ICC valuation-sheet disposition, no Grand Trunk Western station record for the removal was found in the searches run for this section. That end is a named gap, and its settlers are named with it: the Grand Trunk Western station records and the ICC valuation files for the Granger station, the same settlers the transportation record's GAP-T1 already names. Until one of those files is read, the depot's last chapter is printed as unread, not guessed.
The Story of Granger and Transportation (the Martin's train mural; the station article); Monon Society's Grand Trunk Western pages, reproducing the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum photograph captioned "Granger Indiana, date unknown. Grand Trunk Western Union Depot. This depot was shared with the CCC&StL"; searches run November 2026 for a demolition or disposition record (Grand Trunk Western station lists; ICC valuation references) returned no disposition for this building.