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

[Don Ross]

I think West Allis Junction is Belton.

At 03:57 PM 7/20/2011, you wrote:
>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