At first, I thought this was a junction tower between C&NW and Milwaukee, but the buildings on the satellite image did not match the Uniroyal buildings in the photos. Then a Google search revealed that Uniroyal is now Banbury Place (satellite). Judging from the signalling pipelines leaving the tower in Bill Edgar's photo, this tower controlled the turnouts and crossovers for the industrial spurs into the plant. The oldest images that Historic Aerials and Google Earth have is 1998, so I can't confirm the location of this tower. Not only have the plant spurs been removed, the crossovers are gone.
Another photo by Bill indicates that there was a Milwaukee Road branch in addition to the industrial spurs to the plant behind the tower. The RoW of that branch is probably the Chippewa River State Trail in this area.
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