Ed DeRouin wrote " Where I differ in opinion. and that is just that,
opinion, is that the
crossing of the South Branch of the Chicago River was done by a
consortium of four railroads, ICRR, CB&Q - call it what you will,
the name changed during const, - MC and C&NW. The CStC&M
was consigned to history by that time.
The above is not opinion, but the corporate entities that built the
St.Charles Air Line Bridge is documented fact (from CB&Q, C&NW, and IC
sources.....haven't researched any MC documents). (On a side note, I have
not done the reseach to find out who was behind the CStC&MAL and what
alliances it had, if any).
The only addendum that I wanted to add is that the CStC&MAL trackage
actually existed and was a critical part of the reason the St.Charles Air
Line track and bridge were built where and when it was...and that it was
operated over for nine years...and that the name was not just a casual
coincidence. Without the CStC&MAL the C&NW / IC connecting track would have
been built (Ed references the charters that allowed such a connection to be
made direct to Kinzie Street) but we would have been talking about the
Rockwell Street Air Line or the Kinzie Connector instead. The existence of
the CStC&MAL allowed the G&CU (and more importantly the Chicago & Aurora) to
have a direct route to the IC lakefront by building less than two miles
total of new track), and thus the "St.Charles Air Line" was indeed committed
to history.
Charlie
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