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Bridge and tunnel companies – should they stay or should they go?
  

Moffat Tunnel certificate
  • Baring Cross Bridge Co
  • Canada Southern Bridge Co
  • Detroit River Tunnel Co
  • Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Co
  • Hudson River Bridge Co at Albany
  • Louisville Bridge Co
  • Louisville & Jeffersonville Bridge Co
  • Michigan & Canada Bridge & Tunnel Co
  • Moffat Tunnel Improvement District (shown)
  • Niagara River Bridge Co
  • Oswego Railroad Bridge Co
  • Railroad Bridge Co
  • St Louis Merchants Bridge Co
  • Sault Ste Marie Bridge Co

Tunnels and bridges are nearly as crucial to railroading as locomotives and rolling stock. For that reason, I have always included a small number of those companies in my database. Here is a list of tunnel and bridge companies generally accepted as being closely related to railroading.

Am I missing any? Should I remove some? Should I remove all?

The reason I ask is because collectors seem uninterested in certificates from these kinds of companies. I have only had a couple of correspondences about bridge companies in the last 15 years and I cannot remember a single question about tunnel companies. The silence is so deafening that I can't help but wonder whether it is worth my time to track these kinds of certificates.

If you have any opinions, now is the time to tell me. Either post a comment here in this blog or contact me directly.
 
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