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Trains — Indian Village, Indiana
The rail test — no line enters the town
The IV-3 place-names sweep at the town point; the Federal Railroad Administration county crossing inventory as summarised's searches
No railroad enters the Town of Indian Village, and none ever served it. The test produces the negative at three strengths. First, the place-names sweep: at the town itself the national file lists exactly two features — the populated place and the civil town — and no railroad, station, siding or junction feature of any class stands at or in the town. Second, the crossing record: the Federal Railroad Administration's inventory counts 112 public railroad crossings in St. Joseph County, on the lines of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend, CSX Transportation, Grand Trunk Western and Norfolk Southern — a crossing exists only where a road meets a line, and the town's seven streets meet nothing; no crossing on any town street appears in the county record as reached (the inventory was reached as a county summary, not read crossing by crossing, and the negative is quoted with that limit). Third, the geography of the lines themselves: every railroad that crosses this county passes south or west of the town, at the distances the closing article prints. A 0.092-square-mile residential plat laid out in the motor age, on farmland the interurban era had already left, was never a railroad place — no carrier reached in any pass names a line, a station, a flag stop or a siding on its ground, at any date.
The county's lines, at pointer
Surface Transportation Board, Docket FD 35715 (2013); the Northern Indiana Railway record; carriers as cited's note
The railroads the town hears but never hosts belong to South Bend, and print at pointer. Two freight mains cross the county south of the town. Norfolk Southern's Chicago line — the old Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the railroad that came to South Bend in 1851 — runs the city's south side and carries the Amtrak trains that serve the South Bend station. The Grand Trunk Western's line, today's Canadian National South Bend Subdivision, bisects the city's east bank (its predecessor reached South Bend by 1879 under the Grand Trunk of Canada) and runs west toward Griffith — the Surface Transportation Board's 2013 trackage-rights record measures it from the Norfolk Southern connection at milepost 99.5 in South Bend. North-west of the town, the South Shore Line's electric passenger railroad runs from the South Bend International Airport toward Chicago. And the ended era prints because it passed nearest the town's world: the Northern Indiana Railway, the electric interurban system chartered from the South Bend Railway Company of 1885, served South Bend, Mishawaka, Notre Dame, Elkhart and Niles until its last runs on 15 June 1940, when bus service succeeded it — the interurban's lines ran to the university and up the Niles road corridor, west and south of this town's ground, and no interurban track ever entered what is now the town. Every one of these lines is another place's institution. For Indian Village the leg closes as it opened: the county is a railroad county; the town is not a railroad town.