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Lakeville's heritage losses are railroad losses, and they date by the lines' deaths, not by a demolition day: no dated demolition that taught the town, and no movement born of one, stands in any carrier reached — and that finding, not an invented awakening, is the article. The two depots are gone with their lines. The Vandalia's successor segment through town was abandoned in 1973 and its track removed in 1974, at the line history's compilation strength; the Wabash line was abandoned in 1989 under its docket, leaving the town with no railroad at all. Both railroads' depots are gone and the town's two-railroad era is unmarked on the ground, in the banked heritage article's own line. No carrier reached — no SHAARD entry read, no Standard account — dates either depot's demolition, names who took either building down, or records a protest, a rescue attempt or a preservation organisation forming in answer. The residue stands expressly: the SHAARD sweep filed as G-SP-7 and the Lakeville Standard run are the settlers for a dated demolition, and until one is read, the losses print dated by abandonment, which is the strongest date the record honestly carries.