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1893–1983 · SUCCESSION WHOLE
The line ran under three names in its ninety years: the Wabash's Chicago Extension, then its Fourth District, then — after the lease — the Norfolk & Western's Gary District. The lease step is dated to the minute in the record: the Wabash was leased to the Norfolk & Western at 12:01 a.m. on 16 October 1964. What happened after the lease prints as the register's second carried conflict. Conflict C12: one carrier gives full Norfolk & Western ownership in 1970 (the Indiana Northeastern Railroad history repeats the 1970 step); another carries the Wabash company formally merged into N&W in November 1991 (the Wabash system history, citing Baird pp. 93–94 — the Wabash existing on paper until Southern formally merged it). The 1964 lease is common to both sides; the two end-steps print unblended, and this section does not choose between a property transfer and a corporate funeral twenty-one years apart.
Through Chicago–Montpelier passenger service ended on 1 April 1933, and the record interlocks the ending with the local service that replaced it: two mixed trains ran between Montpelier and North Liberty on 1 April 1933, the day before Gary–Montpelier mixed service started on 2 April 1933 (Baird). What replaced the through trains on this ground is the next article's whole subject. The district's freight life after 1933 is carried in the freight article below; its abandonment, segment by segment, in the abandonment article.
Principal sources: the NL-1 frame record; the Indiana Northeastern Railroad and Wabash Railroad system histories (secondary, as cited); Baird (snippet strength).