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The Rail-Trail Conversions: None on This Ground

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Every rail-trail conversion individually, the checklist asks. On Mishawaka ground there are none to list, and the negative is structural, not accidental: the Riverwalk is a riverbank build on redevelopment land, not a railroad conversion; the city's rail lines — the Grand Trunk's successors and the interurban's old course — remain rail lines or street ground, and no abandoned corridor in the city was converted to a trail in the record the trails pass searched. The county's record reached here holds no completed conversion either; the region's trail mileage is riverbank and park mileage, built new. The conversion form belongs to other Indiana grounds, and the mechanism entry that follows gives the law that works it. For this city the entry's whole content is the finding: where Fort Wayne's network is a palimpsest of railroads, Mishawaka's is a riverfront — the two systems' different origins are the point, and no conversion will be invented to make them match.

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Source: The Rail-Trail Conversions: None on This Ground, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/trails/rail-trail-conversions-none-on-this-ground/