[milwaukee-electric] Re: Hales Corners Terminal

[Scott Greig]

I have a picture of that oil facility.


--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Bill Sell <sunrise at bikethehoan.com> wrote:

> From: Bill Sell <sunrise at bikethehoan.com>
> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Hales Corners Terminal
> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
> Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 9:50 AM
> I remember much of what you describe. We moved to Hales
> Corners in 
> 1944. I was 5 and even remember the move. We used the rapid
> transit 
> for the remaining years of its life.
> 
> Somehow I connect that oil facility (at the turn around
> loop) with a 
> cooperative, but I'm not clear what the purpose of the
> cooperative 
> was. I do think they had something to do with the oil or
> fuel storage 
> tanks, but I also remember once buying food there.  It did
> not become 
> "our" store because others were closer to our
> house on Forest 
> Home.  We lived across the triangle from the rapid transit
> station, 
> which was a white and green four walled (not heated)
> structure.  The 
> triangle had a historic inn (Senft's) and two or three
> homes, before 
> Forest Home was widened, decimating the possibility of a
> central 
> Hales Corners downtown. The town is all about cars now.  I
> could go on....
> 
> Bill Sell
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 01:11 AM 2/2/2009, Don L. Leistikow wrote:
> >Ken and list:   You're forgetting the online
> industries in Hales
> >Corners.
> >
> >There once was an industry on the site of today's
> Holz Motors.  A Lumber
> >Company, perhaps, long gone before Speedrail.  Then, on
> the SW corner of
> >S. 108th Street (Hwy 100) and North Cape Road, was the
> site of Hales
> >Corners Lumber & Fuel.  They regularly received
> Hopper Cars of Coal over
> >there.  At Hillcrest (HC Loop) was a small Standard Oil
> facility, very
> >similar to that which stood at the wye in East Troy. 
> Plus  separate
> >lead track also led to the fence line of a former WEPCO
> Yard for Line
> >Poles and Line Hardware.  So, there was ample reason
> for the cars to
> >loop at Hillcrest.
> >
> >Furthermore, the 300, 301 cars had a smoking partition
> still in place
> >which was kept to the rear of the car.  Albeit, there
> was a no smoking
> >rule on Speedrail cars, no one removed this partition. 
> The Smoker
> >actually encompassed about 25% of the cars seatingl.  
> The number two
> >end of these cars saw little use.
> >
> >Don L.
> >
> >
> >ps:   During the rush hours, the Duplexes were pressed
> into service.
> >the 31-40 being used on the Waukesha Line.  41-46 were
> used in HC
> >service and the 47-50 trains were used in PSB-WJ
> service only.  The last
> >two trains did not get Field Tappers.           dll
> 
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