[milwaukee-electric] Re: Hales Corners Terminal

[Bill Sell]

That's great. I have built a small, recent collection of my own from 
a current web site: http://www.thetransportco.com/
I'm sure you all know about that one.

Bill





At 10:05 AM 2/2/2009, you wrote:
>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
> >
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.
> > "Let us put our minds together, and see what life we
> > will make for
> > our children." ---Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull)  ---
> > Hunkpapa Lakota chief

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"Let us put our minds together, and see what life we will make for 
our children." ---Tatanka-Iyotanka (Sitting Bull)  --- Hunkpapa Lakota chief