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The town's one candidate corridor fails the conversion test, and the county's conversions are two, both outside the township. First, the town's candidate: the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa's 1894 South Bend extension — the New York Central's Kankakee Belt — was lifted under Conrail on both sides of Walkerton (banked, Transportation), and no conversion of its grade in or near town appears in any register reached: not in TrailLink's Walkerton city index (whose nearest listed trails are in other counties), not in the county parks' unit list, not in the DNR's trail material, and not in the Prairie Trails Club's corridor work to the south, which is a different railroad's grade. The banked description stands as the whole of it — "a line on the old maps and a straight seam in the aerial photographs" — and this section's test adds only the verdict: unconverted, at full search strength. Second, the county's rail conversion at county frame: the LaSalle Trail corridor was an interurban line, not a steam railroad, and is treated under #153. Third, the ring's true rail-trail, just south in Starke County: the Erie Trail at North Judson, 11.1 miles on TrailLink's register (11.4 miles to CR 700 East on the Prairie Trails Club's current page; nine paved miles to US 35 on its about page — figures unmerged), occupying the railbanked, 100-foot-wide right-of-way of the former Erie Lackawanna Railroad, preserved after the corridor's 2003 abandonment filing when the Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum stepped in, and kept by the Prairie Trails Club; its 2026 extension northwest of Main Street, built with the Town of North Judson, the museum, and Pinsly Railroad, runs as the Grand Kankakee Marsh Trail, and North Judson was declared an American Discovery Trail "Trail Town" in 2026. TrailLink is used in this article as a named cross-check only, as instructed; the conversion facts stand on the club's and the Conservancy's records. Closure: DUG — the Belt conversion test is a tested negative; the ring's conversions are told at their own frames.
Sources: Transportation leg of this build (Kankakee Belt lifting, banked); TrailLink, Walkerton city index and Erie Trail register (11.1 mi) — cross-check only; Prairie Trails Club, about and home pages (railbanked Erie Lackawanna corridor, 2003 abandonment, 2026 extension); Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Great American Rail-Trail Indiana assessment (Monterey Erie Trail, 0.6 mi, same corridor).