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Satellite, Wisconsin Street used to use the diagonal road. After the depot was removed, they rebuilt the street to go straight through.)
This Milwaukee route is now owned by
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR).
Trent Briggs
posted two photos with the comment: "Hartford, Wisconsin."
Brian Higgins: north end of downtown on main st. (83).
Mike Laabs: Where in town was this Depot located? Was it near the Auto Museum 🛺 ?
Reid Van Sluys: Mike Laabs Yes, actually it was. Yet another victim of being razed by the Milwaukee after passenger service ended in March 1958. The small triangle of land that it existed on has been completely erased.
The bottom photo is very interesting. It shows the newly formed Company D of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry (National Guard) leaving for service at Camp McCoy in the summer of 1917. This company was later reorganized and made part of Wisconsin and Michigan's famed 32nd Division and served with distinction in France during WWI.
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[The grain elevator in the left background did not survive in this town.] |
This shows how Wisconsin Street bent west of Main Street because the depot was in the way.
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| 1959/64 Hartford West and East Quads @ 24,000 |
The depot area was just a blob of trees in this 1937 state aerial photo, that is why I got the Federal photo above.
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| 1937 Aerial Photo from WIHAP |
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