Milwaukee, WI: C&NW Depot

(Satellite, the headhouse was just east of Marshall St. along Wisconsin Ave. The Calatrava is built on the land that used to be filled with tracks.)

Ronald Kaminen posted
Brings back memories.!! I worked in this station back in 1954 as a mail and baggage handler. It was fun meeting trains at night loading mail and seeing the 400's during the day.!!
[400's were C&NW trains, but I had to look at a lot of comments before I found that this was the Milwaukee station.]

 

Mark Llanuza posted
Its May 1955 [unknown photographer ] captured this view at CNW Milwaukee Wis station . The engraving date on this kodak slide say may 1955.last week when I posted this slide many member's were saying its the wrong date .This photographer could have taken this photo in 1954 and waited till May of 1955 process it .Remember color slides was expensive back then [photo collection Mark Llanuza ]

Ronald Kaminen: I worked in this depot as a mail handler in 1955. This sure looks like the time with the GP-9's pulling the short trains.!! This train looks like a train to Green Bay.!!

Tyson Park: If there were Studebakers in the photo then I could date it LOL. Look at all of the industry in the background and the Third Ward freight yard.

Marty Bernard posted
This is the last of Rick Burn's CNW "400" slides -- Train 160, The Streamliner 400 at Milwaukee, WI in December 1960.
Marty Bernard shared
Jason Moors: At the time, one had 3 choices on how to get to Chicago--the Milwaukee Road,the C&NW or the CNS&M--was the Streamliner 400 merely a corridor run between Milwaukee and Chicago? Of the roads, which had the most departures to choose from?
Jon Roma: Jason Moors, the North Shore hands down. They had hourly service between Chicago and Milwaukee.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Marty's post

The clock tower is obviously part of the C&NW Depot's headhouse. The headhouse was east of Marshall St. along the south side of Wisconsin Ave. (The layout of the streets in this area was different back then.)

1958 Milwaukee Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

 

Jon Talton posted
Old and new: Steam and diesel powered passenger trains stand side-by-side at the Chicago & Northwestern Railway station in Milwaukee, circa 1950 (photographer unknown).

A different exposure.

Mark Llanuza posted
The year 1950 [Russ Porter photo]  he captured both steam and one of 400 trains [ photo collection mark Llanuza ]

Ronald Kaminen: I was a mail handler in that depot back in 1955.!! It was a fun job meeting all the trains.!!

Since I was low on the seniority list I did work many night shifts.!! But that's when all the mail trains were running. We would load four or five wagons of mail into one RPO.!! Trains were going north to Ashland, Superior,, Ishpeming, and Green Bay.!! We also handled baggage for the 400's in both directions.!!

414 Milwaukee Mil Town posted
The Chicago & North Western Railroad's passenger depot, 915 E. Wisconsin Ave., was built in 1889.  This photograph was taken in1959, The depot was razed in 1968.
Robert Kaun shared
Jack Franklin shared

Andy Zukowski posted
The Chicago and North Western Train Depot (aka Lake Front Depot) served as many as 98 trains per day between its completion in 1890 and its demolition in 1968.

Patricia W. Wilson posted

1890: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The gorgeous clocktower rises high into the sky at the Chicago and North Western Railway station in Milwaukee.

GLASSHOUSE IMAGES.

Alexius Nemo commented on Patricia's post
At the end of Wisconsin Ave….roughly where the Calatrava is today.

Raymond Storey posted three images with the comment: "MILWAUKEE."

Jim Kelling: Chicago & North Western station (gone)

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