Indiana Code Title 8. Utilities and Transportation § 8-4-16-3

Sec. 3. Upon the consummation of such consolidation or merger, all the rights, privileges, exemptions, and franchises of each of the companies, parties to the same, and all the property, real, personal, and mixed, and all the debts due on whatever account to any of them, as well as all stock subscriptions and other things in action belonging to any of them, shall be taken and deemed to be transferred to and vested in, or to remain vested in, such new or surviving company, without further act or deed;  and all claims, demands, property, rights of way, and every other interest shall be as effectually the property of the new or surviving company as they were formerly of the companies parties to such consolidation or merger;  and the title to all real estate, acquired by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this state, vested in any of such companies, parties to such consolidation or merger, shall not be deemed to revert or be in any way impaired by reason of this chapter or anything done by virtue thereof, but shall be or remain vested in the new or surviving company by virtue of such consolidation or merger.  And it shall be lawful for any railroad company formed on or after June 7, 1937, by the consolidation of one (1) or more railroad companies organized under the laws of this state, or under the laws of this state and any other state or states, with one (1) or more railroad companies or corporations organized under the laws of any other state, or the laws of this state and any other state or states, or in the case of a merger of any such companies for the surviving company, to issue its bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring any bonds theretofore issued by any of said companies parties to such consolidation or merger, or for any purpose and to the amount authorized by the laws of the state or states under which any of said companies was organized, and to secure the same by mortgage upon its real or personal property, or both, franchises, rights, and privileges, whether within or without this state, and subject to the remedies for the enforcement of the same under the laws of any of said states.  Any such consolidated or surviving company shall have the same right as any other railroad company organized under the laws of this state to confer on the holders of any bonds issued by it the right to convert the same into capital stock of the company.  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to compel any bondholder to accept payment in whole or in part for any bond or bonds held by him or to surrender the same before they shall become due.