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| Marty Bernard posted Another View of the Milwaukee Road Yard in Milwaukee, October 3, 1976. Marty Bernard shared Ray D. Nelson: Memories...worked the North Lot switchtender job several times in 1968. The little shanty at 9 o’clock was my office and the main track switches on right were the major responsibility. They were hand operated in those days and were kept lined for the yard to avoid the 5-min rule. They would have to be lined for main for psgr trains, of course. We had Milw and CNW trains back then. |
The 2005 SPV Map explicitly labels the buildings on the left the "MILW Shops." The bottom yard on the right is labeled "Airline Yd." The yard above Airline is labeled "Davis Yard."
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post The red line down the middle is 35th Street. The one on the right is Layton Blvd. 1958 Milwaukee Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
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| Rick Allen posted I stitched this map of the West Milwaukee Shops together from the UWM collection of 1910 Sanborn maps. [https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/san/id/43/rec/58] |
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| Edward Werner posted, rotated Found this aerial photo of the Milwaukee Shops in the Menomonee River Valley. The only facility still running was the Wheel Shop so the photo was taken after the Soo Line bought the Milwaukee Road but before the Wheel Shop was closed in December 1986. Mike Sommers: The wheel shop stood until around 2000. I should also mention that the city tried to preserve the twin brick smoke stacks. Unfortunately one started to collapse and they had to remove both of them. ( middle 2000s - 2012ish?) There was a Landmark placed near the location before their demise. Jack Douglas: Most of that is now a parking lot for the Brewers stadium. That area has changed so much that if I had not seen it with my own eyes I would never believe it was actually there. |
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| David Janin posted Ok another Milwaukee Road magazine picture from 1953 zoom in .... Dennis DeBruler shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on his share Just the mainline is left, https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0272475,-87.9647285,2784m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |
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| Mark Llanuza posted Its a snowy day back in 1978 a view of Milwaukee Road Milwaukee Shops . This is where the got the reputation of Americas Resourceful Railroad where they built passenger cars and steam engines cabooses and box cars has a major repair shops that could fix everything .Unfortunately there is nothing left today of this major facility. Mark F Krist: Literally Milw Road Valley Brad Taylor: I probably was there working that day. Things were pretty grim that snowy frozen winter. [Those late 1970s winters were brutal. We record snow, then record cold, then record snow & cold.] |
The 2005 SPV Map labels the east/west yard as "Muskego Yd." The topo has four black circles for the gasometers shown in the photo below that was posted by 414 Milwaukee Mil Town.
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I got the name "Menomonee Valley Shops" from this post.
Rick Allen posted four images with the comment: "These snips of the Menomonee Valley Shops and Yards are from the 1967 aerial photo posted on the Milwaukee County GIS Data Site (Link below). Alex Sansone... If you scroll to the south on the GIS photo... you can zoom in on all of the areas of the Menomonee Belt Line in it's hay day!
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Rick Allen posted four images with the comment: "For comparison... here are photo snips from the 1995 aerial photos of what was left of the the Menomonee Valley Shops. Here is the link to the 1995 Milwaukee County GIS Aerial Photo.
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| 414 Milwaukee Mil Town posted A 1947 aerial view of the Menomonee Valley showing the Wisconsin Gas Company's coal gas processing and storage facility near 26th and St. Paul. |
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| Gordy Schmitt posted Milwaukee Road 775 at the Milwaukee shops, October 10, 1977. Taken by my stepdad, Leonard (Tom) Nagel. Nice looking Fairbanks Morse H10-44. Dave Schneider: Johnston's Cookies in the background (where my Aunt Betty worked) and the huge malt plants off 43rd Street on the horizon. Most of them now gone. James Steed: Dave Schneider I wondered if the pic was looking SW towards 43rd…thank you for confirming. |
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| John J Kulidas posted Looking east from the 35th St viaduct in Milwaukee WI in June 1967. The Milwaukee Road yards.From a Kodachrome slide. Photographer unknown. [Some comments discuss how railyards are cleaned up.] |
Rick Dee posted 15 photos taken 1982-84 of the Airline R ailyard.
Rick Dee posted 34 photos taken 1982-84 of the diesel house.
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| 1 of 61 photos posted by Rick Dee These are photos I snapped of the Menomonee Valley Shops between 1982 and 1984 - Part 2 [There are also photos of a roundhouse.] |
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