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Walkerton never had a canal and, on the banked test, never had an interurban; a conversion needs a corridor, and this ground has neither corridor to convert. The interurban test in Transportation returns negative at named-search strength — the Northern Indiana system ran north and east of here, no Walkerton entry in the station lists, no line on the system maps — and this section ran the afterlife test separately, as instructed: no trail on any register reached claims an interurban corridor in or near Lincoln Township, and no trail could, on the banked negative. The county's one interurban conversion stands at county frame and is the exception that proves the geography: the LaSalle Trail, built 2001, runs on the former interurban line between Niles, Michigan and South Bend, operated by the Indiana Railway Co. and the Southern Michigan Railway Co. — the same Northern Indiana electric family whose lines never reached Walkerton. Its corridor is in the county's north tier, Roseland to the state line, and DNR designates it a Visionary Trail, a connector between other trails. The canal half of the test is shorter: no canal was ever dug through Lincoln Township in any source reached, so there is no towpath conversion to test; the Wabash & Erie class of conversion belongs to other counties and is not borrowed. Closure: DUG — both halves tested; the town result is negative on the banked interurban negative, and the county's single interurban conversion is named at county frame.
Sources: Transportation leg of this build (interurban test, negative, with its named searches, banked); LaSalle Trail register summary (built 2001; Indiana Railway Co. / Southern Michigan Railway Co. corridor; DNR Visionary Trail designation); St. Joseph County Parks, LaSalle Trail page.