User:Mitchazenia/List of stations on the Erie Railroad/3/Indiana and Illinois

The Erie Railroad and it's subsidiary, the Chicago & Erie Railroad, maintained a single line that criss-crossed the state of Indiana and served several sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois. The rail line entered the state of Indiana from Ohio at the state line near Decatur, serving the cities of Huntington, Rochester, North Judson and Hammond, where it merged with the Monon Railroad, which used Hammond station as well. Just northwest of Hammond, the line crossed into Illinois at State Line Junction, where it served several sections of Chicago, from 112th Street to Dearborn Station in downtown. Stations along this section of the line were maintained by the Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad, including 63rd Street in Englewood.

After the Erie Lackawanna Railroad was merged into the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) on April 1, 1976, changes were made slowly, In 1980, tracks of the Chicago and Erie Railroad were removed through most of the state. A section near Huntington became part of the short-lived Erie Western Railway (which closed in 1979), while a small section in North Judson remains in place for the railroad museum. Several depots in Indiana stand: Akron, Athens, Kingsland, Monterey, Pershing (Germany), and Rochester. The station depot at Leiters Ford, Indiana stood until 2012, after an ill-fated attempt to saved by a railroad club in Fulton County. The Station was dismantled by Amish workers and moved to Delphi where it is hoped one day funding can be found to rebuild this depot and place it along the Wabash and Erie Canal in Delphi. In Illinois, Dearborn Station's headhouse continues to stand as a shopping center, but the tracks and the sheds were demolished. The stations at 47th Street and 63rd Street in the Kenwood and Englewood neighborhoods stood until the 1990s.