Niagara Southern Corp. is headquartered in Detroit, MI and is the operator of the Wabash Railway, Wabash Canada, and Delaware & Hudson Railways. Started in 1977, the NS acquired the former Wabash operations between Detroit, MI and Buffalo, NY through Ontario. The Wabash and D&H had been struggling after the N&W divested in them in 1975. That same year, N&W merged with the EL. In 1980, Niagara Southern acquired the main line of the Wabash from Detroit to St. Louis from a asset liquidation firm that garage saled out the Wabash assets. ATSF would buy the KC-Decatur section providing a strong interchange partner in Decatur. NS would further expand it's portfolio by purchasing the bankrupt Erie Western giving them a new route to Chicago via Huntington, IN. In 1990 the Wabash purchased the D&H effectively connecting the East coast with the midwest and giving NS access to the north east.