Error facts: the railroad that wasn't, the toll that was never counted, and the rivers' real numbers

errors printed as facts about the record, with the settling documents named

Three errors, three different shapes: First, the confident error — the Town of New Carlisle's own About page printed, of its own founding corridor, that "in 1852, the South Shore Railroad came through." It did not: the road that came through in that era was the 1851 steam road (the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern line), and the South Shore — the Chicago South Shore & South Bend — is a twentieth-century electric road of 1908. The error is dispelled whole in this build; it prints here because a town's official page misdating its own railroad by fifty-seven years and one whole technology is itself a documented weird fact. Second, the bronze error — the marker at 124 East Michigan for the Lincoln Highway grade separation repeats the period press claim that New Carlisle's "Death Crossing" had "the largest number of victims to its credit of any crossing on the coast-to-coast route": a superlative with no number under it. No record reached — not the marker, not the press account it quotes, not the railroad accident record — carries the toll itself, and the claim stands as GAP-NC7-T1: a number-shaped fact with the number missing. Third, the corrective limb — the river numbers this ground actually owns, printed at gauge strength: the Kankakee, the township's southern river, keeps its records at USGS gauges, and the published extremes are numbers with instruments behind them — at Shelby, Indiana (station 05518000), maximum discharge 7,650 cubic feet per second on 26 March 1982, maximum gage height 12.98 feet on 24 March 1982; at Momence, Illinois (05520500), maximum discharge 16,000 cubic feet per second on 6 March 1979, at a gage height of 10.51 feet under ice jam. Those are what counted river facts look like; the Death Crossing's missing toll is what an uncounted one looks like, and this section prints both so the difference stays visible.

Sources:

1. Town of New Carlisle, About page (the "in 1852, the South Shore Railroad came through" line), as banked and dispelled in this build (the 1851 steam road; the South Shore of 1908).
2. Historical Marker Database, the Historic Lincoln Highway marker, New Carlisle (the grade-separation account quoting the "Death Crossing" claim, "largest number of victims… of any crossing on the coast-to-coast route"; marker at 124 East Michigan Street) — read November 2026. The toll itself: GAP-NC7-T1.
3. U.S. Geological Survey, published station records: 05518000 Kankakee River at Shelby, IN, and 05520500 Kankakee River at Momence, IL (extremes for period of record as quoted) — read November 2026.