[milwaukee-electric] Re: 25th Anniversary: "The Trolley at East Troy"

[Gary Schnabl]

As far as streets are concerned, Mapquest still shows Burnham as pretty 
much like the 1934 map showed it. The CNW probably had its 
interlocking/TO tower at 92nd Street, where the two tracks then expanded 
to five tracks up through the wye west of West Junction.
The two-block stretch of Burnham between 96th and 98th Streets still 
exists. That was the site of whatever West Allis Junction was. It is all 
residential today, though.

It is fairly easy to visualize where West Junction was, using the aerial 
maps. Was 100th Street bent a bit to the SW in order to accommodate the 
TM tracks at West Junction?

So, was West Allis Junction an ancient railroad-stop artifact from the 
middle 1800s, after E.P. Allis bought Reliance Works and renamed it as 
Allis Company in 1860? A Google search keyed on West Allis Junction 
yielded no hits.

Gary

On 7/20/2011 3:47 PM, Don Ross wrote:
> Burnham ended just west of 62nd.  I think there may a piece for a
> block or so after the TM went on private rail at 62.  The rails came
> back on the street at 67th&  Becher.  There was a wooden shelter at
> Revere Place. http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr1143.htm
>
> Don
>
>
> At 12:29 PM 7/20/2011, you wrote:
>
>> The 1934 map shows that Burnham went west to 66th Street, where there
>> was an interchange heading north off the CNW line to the Milwaukee Road
>> at Dickinson Street. At 67th Street, Burnham picked up again to the west
>> to 73rd Street. There was another stretch of Burnham two blocks long
>> between 82nd and 84th Streets. West of 84th, Maple Street was roughly in
>> the same location where Burnham would have been; Maple went five blocks
>> to 89th Street.
>>
>> There was yet another stretch of Burnham between 96th and 98th Streets,
>> where the 1934 map placed an arrow pointing out the location of West
>> Allis Junction. I though that might have been a team track, but it was a
>> two-block stretch of Burnham, I guess.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> On 7/20/2011 11:41 AM, Don Leistikow wrote:
>>> Gary S and list:   Much confusion here.
>>>
>>> Burnham street ended just west of 60th street.
>>>
>>> West Allis Junction with the switchman's tower, was on the C&NW, located
>>> east of the Rapid Transit overhead bridge. This was east of where the
>>> C&NW mainline turned north to Butler and the single line went west to
>>> Madison.
>>>
>>> Nominally, the TMER&L line to Hales Corners and beyond, was on a line
>>> equivalent to 100th street.
>>>
>>> As built, the lnes SW to Burlington and East Troy, came out via Burnham
>>> and  Becher streets, turning SW along the then Mukwonago Road (now
>>> National Avenue) then turning South at the line of 100th street. The
>>> cut-off was built norrth from this point to join with the Waukesha -
>>> Watertown line at the then named West Junction, in 1030. The junction at
>>> 100t and National avenue, was named Fruitlaand.
>>>
>>> The original line west to Waukesha and Watertown, ran north on 3rd
>>> street, then west on Grand Avenue(Wisconsin avenue) to 11th, north to
>>> Wells, then west, over the Viaduct to 52nd, south on prow around the
>>> Calvary Cemetary thence west on Fairview to 70th, south to Greenfield.
>>> Thence west to 81st, south to Lapham and west to 92nd.  A slight curve
>>> to the SW brought the prow to where it ran beside the C&NW alignmnet,
>>> deat west to, Waukesha.
>>>
>>> I hope that this explanation covers the ground.
>>>
>>> Don L.

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Gary Schnabl
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