Milwaukee, WI: GTW Railyard, including two ferry slips

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North is to the right. Continental Grain is now COFCO.

Joe McCarron posted

My collection. GTW. MIlwaukee, WI (anointed for my dad) 1950's. From top, clockwise;

GTW freight house - Also contained business yard office.

Your shack - There were two "shacks" when the engineers stayed. One for the foreman and the other, "your shack", for the engineers.

Roundhouse - It was an engine shed originally build for steam engines, but they called it the "roundhouse".

Swing Bridge - Over the Kinnickinnic river. Used by the Chicago Northwestern RR.

Continental Grain - Also used to be "Stratton Grain", etc. Familiar landmark.

Freddy's shack - The section foreman.

Dennis DeBruler This photo also shows that GTW had two ferry slips. You can still see some remnants: https://www.google.com/.../@43.0114825,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3
Mike Delaney Looks like the usual supply of Pittsburgh Steamship Co. ore carriers parked here for the winter. I would say with lack of ice very late warm December or very early warm spring.
Kevin P. Keefe Is the carferry a GTW boat? Looks vaguely like the old Milwaukee Clipper. Seems to be streamlined.
Nick Trimberger Did GTW actually service any industries in Milwaukee, or was it solely switch carferries and interchanging?
Charles Geletzke Jr.Charles is a moderator in this group. For the answer to that question, Nick, I suggest you obtain a copy of the latest issue of THE SEMAPHORE (Issue #68) put out by the GTWHS. It contains an entire article on GTW operations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin!

I studied the 2005 SPV Map trying to find GTW tracks in Milwaukee until I finally had the "duh" moment when I realized that this yard was their tracks. It was an interchange yard between the GTW ferries and their freight house and the C&NW. Because all of interchange traffic goes to C&NW, I added the "rrCaNW" label on this post.

Update: Joe McCarron posted two photos with the comment: "My collection. GTW. MIlwaukee, WI."

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The 2005 SPV Map is not accurate. It shows all of the ferry routes terminating on the east side of Jones Island. These docks were down on the Kennickinnic River near the bottom center of this topo extract.

1958 Milwaukee Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

Jack Bobby Lou Mulfreavy posted four photos with the comment: "John Dziobko Jr. images showing the GTW loading a car ferry with a boxcab diesel at Milwaukee"

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