 The NYP&O converted the C&MV's trackage rights on the Westerman Railroad into a formal lease on January 1, 1886.In the spring of 1886, the NYP&O completed the C&MV route in Cleveland, at last making the connection to another railroad.To cross the peninsula between the Old Ship Channel and the Irishtown Bend, the track bed was placed in a channel, with Hemlock, Maine, Washington, and Winslow Avenues passing over the tracks via stone bridges.