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

[Gary Schnabl]

My take on WA Junction was that the cartographers simply carried over 
the name of a railroad depot or crossing from much older maps. That 
often happened.
Maps depicting areas well within the confines of the city limits of 
Detroit, including those on Mapquest, still have names with a tiny 
circle, such as Oak (in NW Detroit on Fullerton) and such, which today 
are active or abandoned railroad yards. The area where I live was named 
West Detroit by the railroads, but was initially in the unincorporated 
town of Springwells (which once went almost downtown and included the 
old, demolished Tiger Stadium) before Detroit annexed it in the early 
1900s. The Grand Trunk RR maintained a passenger/freight depot at West 
Detroit, so the N/S arterial street intersecting it, which originally 
was named Lovers Lane back during the early 1800s (or maybe even longer) 
was officially renamed Junction Street. BTW, my mother was born a couple 
blocks west of that street--less than a block from the still-standing 
West Detroit railroad marker.

Many older locations on maps with names such as Xxx Crossing, Xxx 
Station, Xxx Junction, or just plain Xxx, were much older railroad names 
that mapmakers carried on from older maps.

Gary

On 7/20/2011 6:05 PM, Don Leistikow wrote:
> Gary S and list:   Ya Got Me !   Yes, I now see Burnham ending at 66th
> then again in place between 68th and 73rd streets.  Next is a three
> block segment between 82nd and 84th streets.  Another leg is shwon
> between  93rd and 98th streets..
>
> My 1939 edition of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Area Transit Guide and
> Maps, shows nothing more than that.
>
> Memory tells me that there were dome industries on the morth side of the
> C&NW mainline.  Surely, one of more of them, would have had Industrial
> spurs for carload loading, unloading or both.
>
> I've never heard of West Allis Junction but, that may well have been the
> C&NW name for the Tower and the connecting single tracked line to
> Madison.
>
> When TMER&L bilt the connection between Fruitland and West Junction,in
> 1930, a caroad track connection was build off this extension, connecting
> the TM with the CNW by a trailing switch south of the overhead bridge.
> This connecting track connected to the CNW Madison line trailing to the
> east at the interchange track connection.
>
> Thiem Products was an industry located on the interchange track, served
> by TMER&L
>
> I must review and update, my file on Industries which were carload
> served,  keeping the box motor M 14 quite busy all night long.
>
> Don L.
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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

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