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I grew up in Ft. Wayne In, and as such, the old "New York, Chicago, & St Louis is a part of my Childhood, And I have always found the unique history of that road to be a source of enjoyment to muse over. (in fact in the recent "Iron Triangle" article, your text might have read "Norfolk Southern" but my mind was going "Nickel Plate" all the way. I had always suspected this railroad was limited primarily to it's namesake cities, with a few feeder branches in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. Until recently that is. I picked up an old book I had bought years ago "Railroad Atlas of American Railroads:1921" And discovered what APPEARS to be a "NY,Chi,&StL" mainline meandering east through Tennessee from the approximate joinder of Tennessee and Illinois, all the way to chattanooga, thence down all the way to Atlanta. Questions: (1) Am I reading this right? (2) If so, cant find where the line actually linked up with the Nickel plate lines in St Louis, was this a leased connection or something? (3) or was this just an aquired line via the default of some separate RR, that NY,Chi,&StL operated, totally separately? (4) did this line survive long enough to become swept up by Norfolk & Western in 1964? (5) Did Nickel Plate have any other extensive operations elsewhere, outside of "NY,Chi, StL,& (I guess) A"?
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