Current: (Satellite, 216 photos)
The C&NW caboose is a rather recent addition. It doesn't appear in the next oldest view, Nov 2021.
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| Street View, Nov 2021 |
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| OldFallsVillage It was moved in Jan 1980. |
Bryan Much posted two photos with the comment: "Menomonee Falls depot. 1890. Relocated to park: Old Falls Village. The depot handled four passenger and freight trains daily. Local products like lime, stone, ice, milk, and sugar beets were shipped out of here. When the depot was restored in the museum park and rededicated in 1980, the last station master donated a telegrapher's key and timetable. High school industrial arts classes built display cases for the facility."
Lance Burton: More likely that sugar beets were an inbound load, headed for the Wisconsin Sugar Company refinery located near the downtown. Processed sugar was likely shipped out, as the company was reported to be producing 15 million pounds of sugar annually from about 1910 to the end of WWI.
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| 1958/61 Menomonee Falls Quad @ 24,000 |
The topo map implies the depot was east of Water Street and north of the tracks, but this aerial shows that all of the buildings are south of the tracks. My vote is for the rectangle that is west of Water Street.
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| 1937 Aerial Photo from WIHAP |
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