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2026 · the FRA inventory's street list, and what it spells
The railroad still introduces itself to the town at grade, street by street: the Federal Railroad Administration's crossing inventory for Walkerton names the Elkhart & Western's crossings at Adams, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois, Virginia and Georgia streets, and at US 6 — a list that doubles as a reading of the town's plat, whose streets carry the names of states (Michigan, Virginia, Georgia, Kentucky, Illinois) on the strict grid the railroad's surveyors laid out, a geography Hoganson's Heartland remarks on: "Streets of the town were named Michigan, Virginia, and Georgia." The inventory's activity field for these crossings reads zero trains a day — printed here as what it is, an inventory datum about the leased segment's reported activity as of 4 November 2026, not a claim that no wheel turns: a 23-mile lease segment worked from its Argos end will show exactly this face to a form. The diamond crossing downtown, where the two surviving roads cross each other, remains the plant the tower governed; the street crossings are its quieter siblings, and the town still waits at both.
Sources:
- Federal Railroad Administration crossing inventory via the Rail Crossing Atlas, dated 4 November 2026 (the crossing streets named; the reporting railroad; the activity field as printed).
- Kristin L. Hoganson, The Heartland (2019), via Foster & Rotter, ch. 7 (the state-named streets; the surveyors' grid).