By 1911, it was obvious that the future of the GSB&C "Air Line" railway could only be secured by providing an immediate connection with the streetcar network of Gary. So, on 1 June 1911 a company entitled the "Gary Connecting Railways" was incorporated as the second wholly owned subsidiary of the GSB&C. It immediately began construction of a connecting line, beginning at Broadway & 11th Avenue, downtown at Gary, and running down Central Avenue to East Gary. This was opened on 6 January 1912. (East Gary used to be called Lake Station, but changed its name to East Gary in 1908. It changed its name back to Lake Station in 1977, owing to Gary having become a post-industrial slum.) The line was completed to Woodville on 14 August 1912, and made a triangular wye junction with the "Valparaiso and Northern Railway" at a spot called "Woodville Junction", just south of the latter's bridge over the B&O railroad and on the other side of the latter from Goodrum.