[milwaukee-electric] Re: Waukesha route stops

[imbobman at netzero.net]

Gary,
Regarding the last paragraph you wrote & asked about the stops of the Speedrail. 
I live near this area & know location of the old WAUK  transmitting tower well. 
The route where the line would have ran, paralleled the C & NW rail line. It eventually became an access rd. of Wis. Electric. & is now the New Berlin Recreation trail. 
Here's a low-resolution picture from a schedule someone was selling on Ebay a few years back. I believe the date on it is 1948. 
It appears 'Springdale Rd..' was the nearest stop. I don't know where the train went to then in Waukesha. Hope this is of some help. 
I recall reading in a book on the history of New Berlin, that many years back, before the line was known as Speedrail, when it was T.M.E.R.&L., there were a few different stops. (...one being 'Rocky Knoll'. )
If anyone has any more info or photos of this route, it would be great if you could post them or email me.  
Thanks! Regards, 
Bob York
 
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Waukesha route stops
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:44:19 -0500

Might as well ask a few other questions before I keep forgetting...
I believe that the Greyhound was losing something like $20,000 monthly 
on the Interurban. Was that figure accurate? If so, that's a shortfall 
of some $700 per day, on average.

Railroad-passenger ridership took a huge dip after WW2 nationwide and 
kept worsening afterward, so wouldn't that ridership drop also be felt 
for the interurbans? What could Speedrail do in order to increase 
ridership or cut its operating costs?

I was but eight years old when Speedrail folded, and the one and only 
time I ever saw their cars was the time my family drove my 18-year-old 
uncle (originally from Dearborn) to the Milwaukee Road depot in 1951 
after he lived with us for five years after his mother died in 1941. We 
went to the Public Service Building by accident, and I was impressed by 
the interurban cars running on the street. So, I never rode on the 
Interurban.

In 1965, at the age of 22, I became the chief engineer of Waukesha's 
AM/FM radio stations WAUK. They had their studios at 330 Wisconsin, and 
the transmitter site was a couple miles to the east, just north of 
Greenfield (Coral Drive back then), in the boggy area just south of the 
Nike site. If Speedrail were still in existence then, would it have a 
stop near the transmitter site, where I spent most of my time at WAUK? 
Or would I have to spot one of my three vehicles downtown and use that 
to commute to the other site?

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