Zeidler Union Square Park is the same green space that is in front of the headhouse in the aerial photos. [trains]
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| David Janin posted Milwaukee 6/51 Fg Zahn photo |
John Harker posted two photos with the comment: "Here is a scene of Milw train #5, the Morning Hiawatha, at the Everett Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin station taken from the train by an unknown photographer in the Fall of 1952. The scheduled arrival time was 11:45 am. This view out of the window of a passenger car looks toward the west, maybe a little northwest at the east end of the trainshed and the station tower (before it was lowered). You should be able to see some of the reflection in the window. This red bordered Kodachrome slide is pushing 70 years old, but is still in fairly good shape. I did do some photo editing for color and contrast. Attached is a 1963 aerial photo looking west. You should be able to see the trainshed and station to the left of center. John Harker collection"
Jon Roma: Neat! Where, btw, did you find the aerials?
John Harker: Jon Roma I need to check, but I believe on flickr
Dennis DeBruler: John Harker I found this photo here:
There are a dozen photos of the area starting here:
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The Milwaukee Road had a lot of yards south of the river including some backshops.
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post This topo map labels that station as a Union Station, yet I can't figure out what other railroad would be using it. C&NW had a station over by the lake. And Milwaukee appears to have had all of the tracks above and below the Menomonee River. 1958 Milwaukee Quad @ 24,000 |
The Milwaukee Road Archives also calls it a "Union Depot." But most of the other sources call it the Everett Street Depot.
The other railroads would be the Milwaukee and Northern Railway Company, and the Wisconsin Central Railroad. This was the third station in this area. The first opened in 1850 to serve the Milwauke and Waukesha Railroad. [uwm]
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| pinterest 1930s view above the Milwaukee Road depot and the surrounding downtown area. |
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| Postcard via Encyclopedia of Milwaukee "The railroad opened a magnificent station with a 140-foot-high clock tower at 317 West Everett Street in 1886. It was designed by architect Edward Townsend Mix. With alterations, it served until it was replaced in 1965." Both C&NW and Milwaukee shared the replacement building. Incorporated in 1847, the Milwaukee Road was the first railroad to reach the Mississippi River from Lake Michigan. |
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| MilwaukeeMag, Photo courtesy of Milwaukee County Historical Society, 1935 |
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| Taylor Rush posted It's a sunny day in 1943 as freight and baggage is loaded aboard Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific "Doddlebug" motorcar number 5928 outside the cavernous trainshed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The big self-propelled Railway Post Office and baggage car was originally a combine constructed as a joint-build between Standard Steel and the Electro-Motive Corporation in 1928. Reconfigured in 1929, the 76-foot motorcar now trails a coach for passenger accommodations, and the sturdy "Doodlebug" would serve the line until the early 1950s. |
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| HO scale kit and N scale kit |
Is this from one of those kits?
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| Charles G. Haacker Flickr |
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