sentences:  The last of this former THI&E line was abandoned in 1940, and the Indiana Railroad itself abandoned all operations in 1941.The IR's connection to the THI&E's former 1920s partner, the Dayton and Western, at Richmond, Indiana, was essential for IR's freight business from Indianapolis to Dayton, Ohio and from Dayton to the rest of Ohio, particularly to industrial Toledo and Cleveland.When the Dayton and Western went bankrupt in 1937, it was a blow to the Indiana Railroad and to its important Ohio freight partner at Dayton, the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad.