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AS OF NOVEMBER 2026
no freight rail serves North Liberty, no passenger rail stops there, and the nearest Amtrak is the South Bend station (2702 W Washington Street) about fifteen miles away by the town plan's measure, with Waterloo, Indiana (485 West Van Vleek Street, DeKalb County) the alternative eastern stop; the train names serving those stations are not asserted here, their November 2026 verification standing as gap G-W1T-9. The last freight-service remnant of the Fourth District — the Indiana Northeastern's South Milford–Montpelier operation — does not reach this town and prints as a boundary line only. The town's two corridors survive as ground: the Wabash's as the town-owned parcel along Wabash Avenue, the Three I's in part as the Tamarack Trail (pointed to, not re-told).
The loss ledger, as the record dates it: through passenger service on the Fourth District ended 1 April 1933; the Gary Local mixed train — the last, on its historian's word, in Indiana — ended fall 1962; passenger service on the Three I / Kankakee Belt ended on a date no carrier reached names (inside G-W1T-4), certainly before Conrail's creation in 1976; the Three I's track came up in the early 1980s at secondary strength (C102); and the Wabash segment through town was abandoned in 1989 under Docket AB-290(34) — the last ending in the county on this section that a docket can date. What the town lost, in order, was its trains, then its rails, then — with the depots — its stations; what it kept is the ground they ran on.
Principal sources: Comprehensive Plan 2015 (read first-hand); Amtrak station directory entries (directory strength); the articles above for the ledger's dates.