September 21, 1941 – A near tragedy is averted as
the Midnight Special on its way out of Chicago and bound for St. Louis is
halted just in time to avoid falling into the Chicago River when the railroad
bridge at Twenty-First Street is opened to permit a lake freighter to
pass. The engineer brings the train to a
halt with “its small front wheels and first large drive wheels already over the
water and beyond the rail ends.” [Chicago Daily Tribune, September 22, 1941] No one is hurt in the mishap, the passenger
cars are pulled back to Union Station, and the passengers continue the trip
after the fouled tracks are cleared.
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