Connection with lines in Michigan was made via a train ferry and the Canada Southern Bridge Company across Grosse Ile.

[a] This new company existed only three days before being consolidated with the North Western Ohio Railroad to form the third Chicago and Canada Southern Railway.

The company hired John S. "Jack" Casement, who had worked on the Union Pacific Railroad, but Fayette remained the southern extent of the line.

[4] The track between Grosvenor and "Corbus" (west of Deerfield, Michigan), in the middle of the line, was abandoned in 1893.

[9] The western end between Grosvenor and Fayette remained as the Morenci branch; the last portions of it were abandoned in 1991.