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Rich, without a date on the drawing, trying to determine when it was drawn is pretty iffy.  The flourishes and writing style makes it look like an18th century product.  Judging by the way extensions of the Alton and Wabash occurred, a company was formed to build the extension, and after it was functioning, it would be folded into the parent company.  Therefore, I would think that the CM&N name lasted just long enough to get the extension built.  Given that, I would assume the drawing was made soon after the corporation papers were drawn up and long before 1897 when it was being used by the IC.  Using 'railroad chicago madison nothern' as a Google search argument, I got this url. <A href="http://www.tdf23.info/html/Railroads/ChicagoMadisonAndNorthernRailroad.htm">http://www.tdf23.info/html/Railroads/ChicagoMadisonAndNorthernRailroad.htm</A> and inside the url is this: To address these issues, the IC chartered the Chicago, Madison & Northern in July of 1886. So I would assign a date of about 1887 to 1890 for the drawing. Also, I'm pretty sure I was wrong about the line up of the tracks to Bridgeport.  The Alton was laid first, close to the waterway.  The Santa Fe laid tracks to the south of the C&A, and I found on the web a thing on Bridgeport that says the IC squeezed their track in between the other tracks.   <A href="http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LockZero/ii.html" target=_blank>http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LockZero/ii.html</A>  Leave it to gossips to get it straight! Art
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