[milwaukee-electric] extra tracks by Eighth and Hibernia

[Gary Schnabl]

Now that I see that this list is not dead, I will post my own message...
Looking over a photo of Speedrail, I noticed that there were two tracks 
south of the ROW crossing Eighth Street. Were these tracks used to park 
equipment?

Also, there was a grainy picture in a Milwaukee Journal article from 
1980 that showed the entrance to the ill-fated subway east of Eighth 
Street below where those two tracks were at grade. Was that "hole" 
filled in at some point?

And yet another question... If Maeder did not run that signal leading to 
the Speedrail crash, what different could have happened downtown as a 
result? If Speedrail managed to financially limp along for a few extra 
years, the downtown expressway would have used Highland for its ROW--the 
tentative path chosen for the freeway during the mid to late 1940s. That 
might have made the Speedrail ROW still available for use today, instead 
of the Marquette Interchange altering all that downtown real estate.

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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

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