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The first line came from the south, the second from the east, and they crossed in town. The Vandalia's South Bend Branch — built by the Terre Haute & Logansport Railroad from Logansport to South Bend, its track reaching Lakeville in May–June 1884 — crossed the Wabash's Fourth District, built by the Montpelier & Chicago Railroad in 1892–93 from Montpelier, Ohio, toward Chicago. The frame the Story of Lakeville section printed at LK-1 stands, with its dates now phased in the articles below. Howard (1907), writing when both lines were new facts of county life, gives the town's railroad set a third member, and it prints here because this build's readers will meet it in the county history: "Another freight railroad is the New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois railroad, connecting with the Wabash near Lakeville and extending into the factory district of South Bend." The record places that junction elsewhere: the state's abandonments list carries the line as the "South Bend Line," South Bend to Dillon (Docket AB-290(197X), 1999) — Dillon being the Wabash station west of North Liberty, some eight miles west of Lakeville — and no carrier reached puts the New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois' junction, or any rail of it, at Lakeville. Conflict C114: Howard's "near Lakeville" against the record's Dillon. The likeliest reading is a county historian's loose geography for the southern tier he was grouping in one passage; the build prints Howard's sentence and the record's placement side by side, and claims no third line for the town. The NJI&I's whole belongs to the South Bend build, whose ground it worked.
Principal sources: Howard (1907), Vol. 1, Ch. VI §III §5 (ldsgenealogy transcription of the Archive.org copy, first-hand); INDOT, Indiana Railroad Abandonments list (read first-hand); Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum, historic photo gallery (first-hand).